University-Community Engagement in the Asia Pacific

Public Benefits Beyond Individual Degrees

Buch | Hardcover

XI, 126 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-45221-0 (ISBN)

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This edited volume provides a framework for understanding academic public good and offers case studies and perspectives as in depth examples of the ways in which colleges and universities engage with the community to produce social benefits. Focusing on the Asia Pacific region, the authors discuss examples of engagement that produce consciousness, partnerships, and services that are broadly available to the public and enhance the progress of society. The authors argue that, unlike an individual degree, these are public benefits that should be focused upon and featured more readily so that the breadth of university benefits come to be better understood.

Christopher S. Collins is Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University, USA, and Associate Director of the Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. His research focuses on the function of higher education in society and its role in social and economic progress.

Chapter 1. Defining Academic Public Good.- Chapter 2. Post-Secondary Public Health Education: Its Meaning and Value beyond the Walls of the Academic Institution.- Chapter 3. Continued Learning in an Aging Society: A University-Community Collaborative Educational Intervention in Taiwan.- Chapter 4. Digital Heritage as a Rhetorical Tool for Community and Cultural Preservation.- Chapter 5. Creative Tourism and University-Community Engagement: The Case of Trat Province, Thailand.- Chapter 6. The Impact of University-Community Projects: A Case Study at Vietnam National University.- Chapter 7. The Challenges and Benefits of Transnational Higher Education: A Case Study of Sino-foreign Cooperation University in China.- Chapter 8. University-Community Connections and the Thai Concept of Sufficiency: The Case of 9 Boworn.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.01.2017
Reihe/Serie	International and Development Education
Zusatzinfo	XI, 126 p. 7 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
Schlagworte	academic public good • Asia Pacific universities • community engagement • Education • Higher and further education, tertiary education • higher education • International and Comparative Education • International education
ISBN-10	3-319-45221-5 / 3319452215
ISBN-13	978-3-319-45221-0 / 9783319452210
Zustand	Neuware