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Chinese Nationalism and Considerations for U.S. National Security and Study Abroad Policy
(m37110)
Author:
Leif Anderson
Keywords:
China
,
education policy
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intellectual property
,
international relations
,
national security
,
neo-liberalism
,
study abroad
Summary:
Modern globalization has produced a huge increase in the numbers of foreign students studying in U.S. higher education institutions. This phenomenon has served both a diplomatic and financial purpose in that transnational relations have the potential to improve with educational cooperation and struggling institutions have access to increased revenues from ... national security
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Modern globalization has produced a huge increase in the numbers of foreign students studying in U.S. higher education institutions. This phenomenon has served both a diplomatic and financial purpose in that transnational relations have the potential to improve with educational cooperation and struggling institutions have access to increased revenues from international student fees. However, with the rise of international terrorism and potential rival states, this policy has national security considerations. A large number of international students matriculate in the U.S. to take on majors applicable to the knowledge economy and their respective nation’s developing infrastructure. However, many of these subjects are capable of being applied to military projects, such as weapons development and cyber warfare. This paper will examine the depth of modern Chinese nationalism in regard to its relationship to the United States. Analysis will suggest an increasing militant nationalism prevalent in modern China. As a response to this growing nationalism from a nation increasingly looking like a future military, political, and economic rival, policy concerning international education should be seeking to strike a balance between the financial and diplomatic benefits and the risks to national security
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Subject:
Humanities,
Social Sciences
Language:
English
Popularity:
50.86%
Revised:
2011-02-21
Revisions:
New
Global Citizenship with Chinese Characteristics: Nationalism and Global Citizenship in Developing China
(m43622)
Author:
Leif Anderson
Keywords:
China
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Curriculum
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Development
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Education Policy
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Global Citizenship
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Identity
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Nationalism
,
Neo-liberalism
Summary:
The integration of the world’s communities due to globalization has led to a widespread re-negotiation of conceptions of citizenship. Educationalists throughout the world are debating the role of global citizenship in policy objectives. In China, a transition to a neo-liberal framework has integrated the formerly closed society ... Chinese Characteristics.”
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The integration of the world’s communities due to globalization has led to a widespread re-negotiation of conceptions of citizenship. Educationalists throughout the world are debating the role of global citizenship in policy objectives. In China, a transition to a neo-liberal framework has integrated the formerly closed society into the globalized world. However, China’s development goals remain an exclusionary project. In this context, an emerging nationalism premised on a victimization narrative, resistance identity, and ethnocentric positioning marks contemporary Chinese citizenship discourse, thus limiting the possibility of a shift towards global citizenship discourse in Chinese education policy. Despite integration into the neo-liberal world economy, historical circumstances make the modern Chinese state a reluctant implementer of external ideologies and social theories. A Chinese global citizenship initiative premised on a foreign definition is sure to be met with resistance. Although evidence of prospective global citizenship exists in China, it’s survival is dependent on an internal negotiation of meaning based on Chinese conceptions, and an institutional level implementation that could only be called “Global Citizenship with Chinese Characteristics.”
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Subject:
Humanities,
Social Sciences
Language:
English
Popularity:
49.42%
Revised:
2012-06-10
Revisions:
New
Nationalism and the Transition to Neo-liberalism: An Examination of Social Studies Curriculum in Developing China
(m35881)
Author:
Leif Anderson
Keywords:
China
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Globalization
,
Nationalism
,
Neo-liberalism
,
Secondary Education
,
Social Studies Curriculum
Summary:
This study examines social studies curriculum in developing China. Primarily, this study analyzes the role of the social studies in mainland China in indoctrinating the transition to a market-driven, neo-liberal economy while justifying the continued presence of a single-party state with a communist facade. Additionally, this study ... source-based learning.
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This study examines social studies curriculum in developing China. Primarily, this study analyzes the role of the social studies in mainland China in indoctrinating the transition to a market-driven, neo-liberal economy while justifying the continued presence of a single-party state with a communist facade. Additionally, this study examines the role of secondary social studies in fostering nationalism throughout the education system. In particular, this study will focus on how the obvious contradiction between a communist political ideology and a neo-liberal economic system is reconciled through social studies education. In terms of the development of nationalism in Chinese education, this study considers the potential consequences of this phenomenon as China becomes further intertwined with the globalized world. Finally, this study considers the prospects of curriculum reform in Chinese social studies and the potential for an ideological shift towards critical thought and inquiry, source-based learning.
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Subject:
Arts,
Humanities,
Social Sciences
Language:
English
Popularity:
50.53%
Revised:
2010-11-04
Revisions:
New
Sustainability and Political Opportunities of the Open Education Movement: A Case Study of China’s Potential Role
(m37111)
Author:
Leif Anderson
Keywords:
censorship
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China
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democracy
,
education policy
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freedom
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intellectual property
,
international relations
,
marketization
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open education
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sustainability
Summary:
This paper will propose two potential applications for the developing open education movement, or OE. One will recommend a policy solution with the potential to settle the OE conundrum of sustaining the movement while maintaining the attributes of openness. Another will examine the possibility of using OE as a tool ... i.e. China.
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This paper will propose two potential applications for the developing open education movement, or OE. One will recommend a policy solution with the potential to settle the OE conundrum of sustaining the movement while maintaining the attributes of openness. Another will examine the possibility of using OE as a tool for transnational political leverage. This hypothetical scenario will center on China as a case study. On the first proposal, the question of whether open education should be available for non-open societies is considered. For the purposes of this study, I will suggest…no. In the case of China, a nation with political attributes which run antithetical to the notion of openness and with great potential for market demand for OER due to development needs, there exists an opportunity to settle the problem of OER sustainability by applying a fee-paying principle to this non-open state for the use of OER. Open education remains open for open societies and closed societies must pay for access, provided that OER reaches its practical educational potential and can provide the kind of knowledge a developing nation like China requires. For the second proposal, and as an extension of the first, it is argued that the exclusivity of OER to open societies has the potential to make OER a tool for leveraging political reform in certain closed societies i.e. China.
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Subject:
Humanities,
Social Sciences
Language:
English
Popularity:
34.31%
Revised:
2011-02-22
Revisions:
New
The Application of Open Educational Resources to EAP Curriculum
(m43623)
Author:
Leif Anderson
Keywords:
Applied Linguistics
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English
,
Globalization
,
International Education
,
Open Education
,
Study Abroad
,
TESOL/ESL
Summary:
This project explores the potential application of open educational content to EAP (English for Academic Purposes) curriculum. Given the depth of international student mobility in the modern world, this topic has great potential for practical use in future ESL/EAP practice. While the mobility of the 21st century has brought many ... might work.
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This project explores the potential application of open educational content to EAP (English for Academic Purposes) curriculum. Given the depth of international student mobility in the modern world, this topic has great potential for practical use in future ESL/EAP practice. While the mobility of the 21st century has brought many native English-speaking educators into ESL/EAP classrooms throughout the world, often these teachers have educational backgrounds in subjects unrelated to their students’ intended fields. Thus, they often lack the technical knowledge of the high technology and science fields needed to meet their students’ needs. This study explores the possibility of applying currently available and/or developing open educational resources which cover high-demand subject areas as a complementary piece of the ESL/EAP teachers’ pedagogy and curriculum. Although such a model would be fraught with practical learning imperfections, I suggest it could serve as an acceptable substitute in certain circumstances. Secondary research focuses on examining approaches and methods in applied linguistics and issues in EAP instruction itself to explore a framework in which such a model might work.
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Subject:
Humanities,
Social Sciences
Language:
English
Popularity:
48.46%
Revised:
2012-06-10
Revisions:
New
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