Academic Migration, Discipline Knowledge and Pedagogical Practice
Voices from the Asia-Pacific
Editors: Mason, Colina, Rawlings-Sanaei, Felicity (Eds.)
- Explores the parameters of academic migration in the globalisation of higher education in the Asia-Pacific region
- Provides a strong focus on the pedagogical contribution of academic migrants
- Incorporates Indigenous perspectives on learning and teaching in higher education into the discourse on migration
- Examines the relationship between academic migrants and the migration of ideas and its impact on shaping of the disciplines.
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- About this book
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This volume makes a distinctive and innovative contribution to the globalisation of higher education literature by highlighting the myriad benefits of academic migration. Sixteen academic migrants across the Asia-Pacific region reflect on their experiences and wisdom gained across geographical, cultural and disciplinary domains. Each one provides an authentic account of ways in which their experiences and insights have benefited their host institutions and enhanced their pedagogical practice. The groundbreaking volume calls for a shift in academic culture – one in which academic migrants are respected for their cultural, social and intellectual resources, their enhanced interpretive ability and their capacity to view the world through multiple lenses. Are these not the characteristics of educators which universities seek in their efforts to internationalise their institutions and develop in their students an understanding of global citizenship? The volume forges new territory in articulating the relationship between academic migrants, conceptual understanding and the construction of knowledge.
The following themes are addressed in this book:
- Migration of Ideas, Conceptual Understanding and Pedagogical Enrichment
- Indigenous Pedagogies and Bridging Worldviews
- Changing Academic Identities and Reshaping Pedagogies
- Teaching Practice and the Academic Diaspora.
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Academic Migration, Discipline Knowledge and Pedagogical Practice
- Book Subtitle
- Voices from the Asia-Pacific
- Editors
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- Colina Mason
- Felicity Rawlings-Sanaei
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Singapore
- eBook ISBN
- 978-981-4451-88-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-4451-88-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-981-4451-87-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-981-10-1338-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXV, 218
- Number of Illustrations
- 12 b/w illustrations
- Topics
