Stambach Confucius and Crisis in American Universities

Culture, Capital, and Diplomacy in U.S. Public Higher Education
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-135-02042-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten

Reihe: Education in Global Context

China’s investment in U.S. higher education has raised considerable debate, but little research has been directed to the manner in which this investment unfolds and takes shape on the ground in local contexts. Confucius and Crisis in American Universities fills this gap by closely investigating how Chinese-funded U.S. programs are understood and configured in the modern American university. Drawing on interviews with Chinese teachers and their American students, as well as conversations with university administrators, this book argues that Chinese investment in American higher education serves as a broad form of global policy, harnessing the power of intercultural exchange as a means of managing international diplomatic relations through the experiences of university students.

A transnational study, Confucius and Crisis in American Universities questions and reframes conventional notions of economic globalization and flexible citizenship, demonstrating how Chinese investment in U.S. education advances the lives of the already-privileged by creating access to overseas labor and markets, but to the exclusion of middle- and working-class students. A valuable and timely resource for scholars of education and anthropology, this book will also be useful to anyone interested in education policy or international affairs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stambach, Amy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: History in the Light of U.S.-China Educational Exchange
Chapter 3: Language Instruction in Confucius Institutes
Chapter 4: Administrators’ Views of Confucius Institutes
Chapter 5: Campus and Community Participants
Chapter 6: Chinese Teachers in the United States
Chapter 7: Confucius Institutes: Saving Face, or Selling Out?
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Amy Stambach is Professor of Education at the University of Oxford, UK.