Internationalising the University: The Chinese Context

Book Overview

Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Cooperation with Chinese Universities - Issues and Trends; P.Rastall Conceptions of Internationalisation and their Implications for Academic Engagement and Institutional Action: A Preliminary Case Study; Y.Turner & S.Robson Chinese Universities' Motivations in Transnational Higher Education and their Implications for Higher Education Marketization; L.Zheng The Internationalisation of Higher Education in China: The Case of One University; J.Wang Global Connections - Local Impacts: Trends and Developments for Internationalism and Cross Border Higher Education; D.Olcott Jr. Using Policy Initiatives to Support Both Learning Enhancement and Language Enhancement at a Hong Kong University; C.Mcnaught & A.Curtis Cultivators, Cows and Computers: Chinese Learners' Metaphors of Teachers; M.Cortazzi, L.Jin,& W.Zhiru The Dissonance Between Insider and Outsider Perspectives of the 'Chinese Problem': Implications for one of the UK's Largest Undergraduate Programmes; P.V.Smith & X.Zhou Decoding Students Value Orientations in Contemporary China; S.Yang Overcoming Linguistic and Cultural Barriers to Integration: An Investigation of Two Models; S.Devlin & N.Peacock Building on Experience: Meeting the Needs of Chinese Students in British Higher Education; V.Edwards & A.Ran Chinese Learners and Interactive Learning; W.Littlewood Afterword: Responses to Internationalisation in the UK and the International Context and a Survey on Responses to Intercultural Communication Teaching; T.Coverdale-Jones Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349301361
• ISBN13: 9781349301362
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"