Canadian Universities in China's Transformation: An Untold Story - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0773547304 ISBN 13: 9780773547308

Casa editrice: McGill Queens Univ, 2016

Riassunto

Canada was one of the first Western countries to sign an agreement to provide development aid to China in 1983, and the Canadian International Development Agency invited universities to cooperate in ways that would facilitate "the multiplication of contacts at the thinking level." In Canadian Universities in China’s Transformation, leading scholars from Canadian and Chinese universities elaborate on the historical experience of collaboration in areas as different as environmental science, marine science, engineering, management, law, agriculture, medicine, education, minority cultures, and women’s studies. Contributors use theoretical frames such as dependency theory, human capital, the knowledge economy, and Habermas’s theory of communicative action, to facilitate a striking dialogue between Canadian and Chinese perspectives on common questions. They provide insights into factors that ensured the long-term success of some partnerships, as well as barriers that hindered others, and vivid lessons for current collaboration. Case studies include a project that began with the training of Chinese judges developing into reciprocal programs in legal education in China, Canada, and Latin America, and an examination of how joint environmental research has had policy impacts at national and international levels. Presenting the story of universities working together in the era after the Cultural Revolution, Canadian Universities in China’s Transformation is a unique account of partnerships in knowledge production and application and their resulting impacts.

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L'autore:

Ruth Hayhoe is professor of comparative higher education at the University of Toronto. Julia Pan is a research associate at OISE, University of Toronto. Qiang Zha is associate professor of education at York University.

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• Editore: McGill Queens Univ
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0773547304
• ISBN 13: 9780773547308
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 362
• Redattore: Hayhoe Ruth, Pan Julia, Zha Qiang