Knowledge Across Cultures: A Contribution to Dialogue Among CivilizationsComparative Education Research Centre, University of Hong Kong, 2001 - 391 עמודים 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. |
תוכן
Introduction | 1 |
Paradigm Shifts in the Social Sciences in the East and West | 55 |
The Four Rs | 75 |
זכויות יוצרים | |
17 קטעים אחרים שאינם מוצגים
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
19th century academic African American Arabic areas arithmetic artists astronomical basic Beijing Cai Yuanpei chapter Chinese education civilizations Comparative Education concept Confucian context contributions critical cultural developing countries dialogue doctors economic education system epistemology Europe European example foreign gender global higher education human Ibn al-Haytham ideas important India Indian Mathematics indigenous industrial influence institutions integrated intellectual interaction Islamic Jesuit knowledge production knowledge transfer learning major mathematics methods missionaries modern Muslim Native nature Peking Peking University perspective philosophy political postpositivism problems programs Qing Dynasty reality reform religion religious revolution role Ruth Hayhoe scholars schools science and technology scientific scientists Sinic social sciences society Soviet spiritual tawhid theory Third World traditional Chinese medicine transfer of knowledge transformation understanding University of Mumbai University Press values West Western medicine women World Bank York