CERC Studies in Comparative Education, No.11
Knowledge Across Cultures:
A Contribution to Dialogue Among
Civilizations
Edited by Ruth Hayhoe & Julia Pan
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ISBN 10: 962-8093-73-8; ISBN 13:
978-962-8093-73-1. (2000, 391pp.)
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published by Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC)
At the start of the new millennium, the United Nations
designated 2001 the 'Year of Dialogue among Civilizations'. This dialogue
emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and changed much of the
field of comparative education. The dialogue draws attention to deep-rooted
cultural differences around the world which shape approaches to education.
This book gives voice to outstanding scholars from three major Eastern
civilizations - Chinese, Arabic and Indian - who have entered into dialogue with
equally distinguished scholars from the West. One of the authors, Abdus Salam,
was the first scientist from Pakistan to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. The
themes of the book include challenges to knowledge in the late modern era;
Eastern contributions to scientific knowledge; knowledge transfer across regions
and civilizations; indigenous knowledge and modern education; and past and
present influences from China. The book will contribute to an ongoing dialogue
among civilizations, and enhance mutual understanding in the increasingly globalized society of the 21st Century.
Ruth Hayhoe is Director of the Hong Kong Institute of Education, and is an
Associate Member of the Comparative Education Research Centre of the University
of Hong Kong. She is also an Honorary Fellow of the University of London
Institute of Education, and Advisory Professor to ten universities in different
regions of China. She has devoted two decades to studies of China's education
and Chinese-Western relations in education.
Julia Pan teaches at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University
of Toronto. She has recently led two major projects of educational and
scientific collaboration between Canadian and Chinese scholars, supported by the
Canadian International Development Agency. At the start of the new millennium,
the United Nations designated 2001 the 'Year of Dialogue among Civilizations'.
This dialogue emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and
changed much of the field of comparative education. The dialogue draws attention
to deep-rooted cultural differences around the world which shape approaches to
education.
This book gives voice to outstanding scholars from three major Eastern
civilizations - Chinese, Arabic and Indian - who have entered into dialogue with
equally distinguished scholars from the West. One of the authors, Abdus Salam,
was the first scientist from Pakistan to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. The
themes of the book include challenges to knowledge in the late modern era;
Eastern contributions to scientific knowledge; knowledge transfer across regions
and civilizations; indigenous knowledge and modern education; and past and
present influences from China. The book will contribute to an ongoing dialogue
among civilizations, and enhance mutual understanding in the increasingly
globalized society of the 21st Century.
Ruth Hayhoe is Director of the Hong Kong Institute of Education, and is an
Associate Member of the Comparative Education Research Centre of the University
of Hong Kong. She is also an Honorary Fellow of the University of London
Institute of Education, and Advisory Professor to ten universities in different
regions of China. She has devoted two decades to studies of China's education
and Chinese-Western relations in education.
Julia Pan teaches at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University
of Toronto. She has recently led two major projects of educational and
scientific collaboration between Canadian and Chinese scholars, supported by the
Canadian International Development Agency.
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Contents:
Foreword (Mark Bray)
Introduction
A Contribution to Dialogue among Civilizations (Ruth Hayhoe & Julia Pan)
Part 1: Challenges to Knowledge
1. Knowledge, Politics, and the Future of Higher Education: Critical
Observations on A Worldwide Transformation
2. Science, Universities and Subjugated Knowledges: A "Third World"
Perspective
3. Paradigm Shifts in the Social Sciences in the East and West
4. First Nations and Higher Education: The Four R's - Respect, Relevance,
Reciprocity, Responsibility
5. The Challenge of Cultural Dependency: An African and Islamic Perspective
Part II: Eastern Contributions to Scientific Knowledge
6. Indian Mathematics and the West
7. Historical Reflections on Scientific Knowledge: The Case of Medieval Islam
8. A Modern Interpretation of Sinic Science
9. Inheritance, Creativity and Society
Part III: Knowledge Across Cultures: Issues of Knowledge Transfer
10. Science, Technology and Science Education in the Development of the South
11. East-West Medical Exchanges and their Mutual Influence
12. Gigantic Peripheries: India and China in the International Knowledge System
13. World Bank Transfer of Technology and Ideas to India and China
14. Development as Transfer of Knowledge: A View from Egypt
Part IV: Indigenous Knowledge and Modern Education
15. Art, Technology and Knowledge Transfer
16. On the Indigenousness of Chinese Pedagogy
17. Cultural Survival of Education in Iran
18. Social Justice through Non-Formal Education and University Extension
Education: an Indian Case Study
Part IV: China's Influences Past, Present and Future
19. An Ancient Bridge: The Influences of the Arts of China on the West
20. Chinese Influences on the Enlightment in Europe
21. A Brief Overview of Sino-Western Exchange Past and Present
22. Meeting Points of Transcultural Exchange - A Chinese View
23. A Bridge Rebuilt: Artistic Interchange between China and the West in the
1980s
24. The Concept of General Education in Chinese Higher Education
25. Lessons from the Chinese Academy
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