TY - BOOK ID - 32071554 TI - Bridging transcultural divides : Asian languages and cultures in global highter education AU - Song, Xianlin AU - Cadman, Kate AU - University of Adelaide Press PY - 2012 SN - 9781922064301 9781922064318 1922064319 1922064300 PB - Adelaide : The University of Adelaide Press, DB - UniCat KW - Oriental languages KW - Study and teaching (Highter) KW - Asia KW - Civilization KW - Study and teaching (Higher) KW - Languages, Oriental KW - Asian and Pacific Council countries KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia KW - social studies KW - cultural studies KW - pedagogy KW - language curriculum KW - chinese KW - transcultural exchange KW - indonesian KW - study skills KW - plagiarism KW - asian languages KW - globalisation KW - japanese KW - australian universities KW - China KW - Critical thinking KW - International student KW - Kanji UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32071554 AB - The impressive and stimulating essays in Bridging Transcultural Divides deal with the cultural and educational issues in the Australian context. The books central message is that education for Asian students in Australia, and more broadly in the West, can no longer been seen as a one-way transfer of knowledge, but must be understood as a process of reciprocal learning in which both teachers and students are changed by the experience. ER -