Michael W Charney

Asian Migrants and Education: The Tensions of Education in Immigrant Societies and Among Migrant Groups - Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects Michael W Charney Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003 edition

Marc Notes: Originally published: Dordrecht; London: Kluwer Academic, 2003.; Includes bibliographical references.; The contributors to this volume explore the close relationship between education and the moulding of modern immigrant societies through case studies of either Asian migrants or Asian immigrant societies. Description for Sales People: This is a variegated picture of science and mathematics classrooms that challenges a research tradition that converges on the truth. The reader is surrounded with different images of the classroom and will find his beliefs confirmed or challenged. The book is for educational researchers, research students, and practitioners with an interest in optimizing the effectiveness of classrooms as environments for learning. Table of Contents: 1. Social Bonding and Freedom: Problems of Choice in Immigrant Societies .- 2. Globalization, Asian Diasporas, and the Study of Asia in the West .- 3. The Mission School in Singapore: Colonialism, Moral Training, Pedagogy, and the Creation of Modernity .- 4. Education and Identity Issues in the Internet Age: The Case of the Indians in Singapore .- 5. Interactions Between Huiguan and Education in Postwar Singapore .- 6. The Case for a Culture-sensitive Education: Building Cultural Bridges Between Traditional and Global Perspectives .- 7. Immigrant Societies and Environmental Education: Revisiting Forgotten Lessons in Holistic and Traditional Wisdom .- 8. Health Education of Hmong Refugees in Sydney .- 9. Confucian Education: A Case Study of the South African Chinese .- 10. A Century of Change: Education in the Lives of Four Generations of Chinese Women in Malaysia.- 11. Contemporary Educational Issues in Multicultural Societies .- 12. International Approaches to Valuing the Professional Skills of Permanent and Temporary Migrants .- 13. Satellite Kids in Vancouver: Transnational Migration, Education and the Experience of Lone-children .- 14. Indian Diaspora and the Prospect of Open Learning: A Perspective on Modern Social Science Education from India .- Contributors.- References."Publisher Marketing: education is and what its functions should be. As Thomas explains, migrant communities need a culture-sensitive education, that is, an education that can both accommodate their special cultural needs and prepare them for life in an increasingly globalized world. To meet this need, Thomas discusses planning strategies and the special role of teachers in transmitting this education. As Thomas warns, however, a culture sensitive education is continually threatened by the dominance of the West and religious traditions, such as Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism in global cultural flows. Pang raises the problem of modem, especially new and migrant, societies being unable to face the challenges of environmental issues. Some claim, for example, that these societies lack the right approaches to the environment or suffer from the inability to develop the proper "eco-ethic." To meet this problem, Pang draws the discussion back to the continued relevance of traditional education to contemporary issues facing a shrinking world: how immigrant societies and their diverse storehouses of traditional knowledge can inform current approaches to environmental management. In order to develop the necessary eco-ethic, migrant and other societies need to utilize old traditions relevant to environmental preservation in their production of modem education.

Contributor Bio:  Charney, Michael W Michael Charney is Project Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo and Reader in Southeast Asian and Imperial History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Professor Charney is a historian of empire, technology and culture, whose research focuses on Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, with particular attention to Burma/Myanmar, Tanzania and Ghana.