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This book examines four theses regarding higher education and
development in the Asian region: the interplay between cultural
traditions, economic development, globalization, and the evolution
of the 'hybrid' university. Top scholars from around the world
evaluate how closely these hypotheses resemble present
circumstances and policies and seek to determine the elements
making up Asia-Pacific higher education and shaping the region's
education history.
This book examines four theses regarding Asian higher education and
development: interplay between cultural traditions, economic
development, globalization, and the evolution of the 'hybrid'
university. Top scholars evaluate these hypotheses and determine
the elements shaping the history and present circumstances of
Asia-Pacific higher education.
Asia is rapidly developing a wide variety of regional organisations
and interactive patterns, reflecting in large part its increasing
role in the global economic and political engagements. Higher
education constitutes a distinct sphere of activity within this
overall pattern of regionalization.
Through case studies in eight Asian countries, Europe, and the
United States, this volume explores the range and consequences of
increased mobility within Asia-Pacific higher education and the
patterns of migration emerging for persons, ideas, institutions,
and practices.
Through case studies in eight Asian countries, Europe, and the
United States, this volume explores the range and consequences of
increased mobility within Asia-Pacific higher education and the
patterns of migration emerging for persons, ideas, institutions,
and practices.
"Access, equity and capacity are elements within the higher
education environment that interact in complex ways to effect
virtually all other aspects of such institutions. This volume
examines various features of how these concepts are generated,
transformed throughout policy environments, and deployed across the
complex differences of higher education in ten countries in the
Asia-Pacific Region. The book's contributors assert that at
virtually every turn issues of quality are deeply implicated with
how these three dimensions occur within these diverse institutional
environments"-- Provided by publisher.
Higher education is growing most rapidly in the Asia-Pacific
region, and policy makers are facing the task of balancing quality
and quantity. This book will help readers understand the current
situation of higher education not only in this region but
everywhere that they may work.' - Shinichi Yamamoto, Hiroshima
University, Japan
This volume presents a chronological series of essays on various
demonic traits and traditions handed down from classical antiquity,
reinterpreted and systematized in the Middle Ages in Europe, and
extending their influences to our present day and culture. The main
focus lies on the adaptation and reformulation of specific
demonological constellations in the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries, combining ethnological approaches with concepts of
cultural history and their reflection in the arts and in
literature. These superhuman and supernatural entities present us
with a multitude of forms, figures, and functions - from helpful
messengers and mediators to frightful and devilish antagonists of
the humans they encounter. As model explanations of that which may
not be explained in any other way they offer answers and
interpretations of the 'Other' outside humanity as well as inside
the human being.
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