Change in China’s urban areas is dramatic, as cityscapes emerge from rice paddies. China’s rural areas reflect the impact of globalization, especially as villagers leave home for work in towns and cities. Much of the current research on migration out of China’s countryside has noted its negative consequences for village life, a phenomenon often dubbed “hollowing out.” Our qualitative research on “hollowing out,” undertaken by a student-faculty team from Dickinson College, focused on village sustainability in an area that has experienced substantial out-migration. Given the time constraints of our funding, we concentrated on village activities that were by and large public and observable – farm ecology and local culture. The village “stay-behinds” did most of the community’s agricultural labor and cultural work, the latter especially manifest in religious activities. Based on a combination of fieldwork and available published materials, we found evidence for optimism about the sustainability of the village community in the age of migration.
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Literature on international study and civic engagement acknowledges multiple conditions through which students may achieve personal and intellectual transformation. Less is written about student and faculty transformation when courses reside at intersecting disciplinary margins. Funded by the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (LIASE), two co-located, month-long, off-campus study courses situated faculty and student development within the thematic context of environmentalism in Japan. During the month available, by teaching at the margins, or in other words, beyond familiar lifestyles and areas of knowledge, we examined powerful common-sense assumptions regarding proper questions and answers about environmental challenges. Paired natural and social-science courses explored grassroots efforts to achieve environmental sustainability at the margins, in terms of socio-cultural structures, geography and place, normal life and crisis, cross-cultural and cross-language communication, and between wealthy and developing economies. This article contributes to our knowledge of transformative experiential learning by (1) documenting our processes in and products from co-designing and co-teaching these courses, and (2) reporting on learning resultant from the courses in the words of participating students and faculty, with their consent.
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This essay is an attempt to think about how concerns regarding disciplinary boundaries and distinctions intersect with the most current critique of Asian studies in the wake of the multi-disciplinary call for “transnational” or “global” approaches to scholarship and pedagogy. This constitutes no manifesto—simply an encouragement of what I call “globally sensitive Asian Studies.”
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This is the second of three special issues of ANE devoted to a series of explorations of the generative impact of the Luce Foundation’s LIASE initiative. Designed to increase the integration of Asian and Environmental Studies in our classrooms, research, and practice, the LIASE program has had a profound effect in each domain. This issue nicely demonstrates how the grant has enabled colleagues at four institutions to develop innovative research questions that led to new lines of scholarship.
{"title":"Research and the Integration of Asian and Environmental Studies","authors":"C. Miller","doi":"10.16995/ane.358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16995/ane.358","url":null,"abstract":"This is the second of three special issues of ANE devoted to a series of explorations of the generative impact of the Luce Foundation’s LIASE initiative. Designed to increase the integration of Asian and Environmental Studies in our classrooms, research, and practice, the LIASE program has had a profound effect in each domain. This issue nicely demonstrates how the grant has enabled colleagues at four institutions to develop innovative research questions that led to new lines of scholarship.","PeriodicalId":41163,"journal":{"name":"ASIANetwork Exchange-A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts","volume":"27 1","pages":"50-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43323100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study documents China’s efforts to build its formal environmental education system and explores university students’ environmental knowledge and awareness using a survey carried out at Xiamen University, which is located on the southeastern coast of China. We find that the Chinese state made rapid progress in setting up environmental studies programs in its institutions of higher education, but it took the state over two decades to build a nationwide curriculum integrated with environmental studies for primary and secondary schools. The survey data revealed that these efforts have borne fruit. Students have improved in their environmental knowledge over time. Nevertheless, students remain disconnected from most environmental organizations. This may hinder China’s efforts to harness their environmental knowledge for the sake of effective action toward safeguarding the environment. The state should help encourage further cooperation among different social groups so China has a chance to fulfill its potential to become a global leader on environmental issues.
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This article describes the “Making of the Modern World” program, a liberal arts curriculum in a public university. Thirty years ago Eleanor Roosevelt College at the University of California, San Diego, developed a multi-disciplinary liberal arts core curriculum called the Making of the Modern World. The history and cultures of Asia were a major part of that curriculum. As one of the developers of the curriculum, I now reflect on the program both as a success story and cautionary tale. I will recount why we developed this kind of liberal arts curriculum, how we did it, how well it did or did not work, how it has changed over the years, and what lessons this experience might have for us today. I argue that liberal arts colleges can learn from our efforts at creating such a curriculum in a large research university, but all should beware of taking on our educational deficiencies.
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This article details a correction to the article: Smith, M. and Zhang, H., 2019. Notes from the Editors. ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, 26(2), pp. 1–5. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/ane.339
本文详细更正了该文章:Smith, M. and Zhang, H.， 2019。编辑注释。亚洲网络交流:人文亚洲研究学报，26(2)，第1-5页。DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/ane.339
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Since its inception in 2009, the Sustainable China Program at Lawrence University in Wisconsin has given students and faculty the chance to engage with important environmental, economic, political and cultural questions by combining interdisciplinary academic work in the classroom with an extended field experience in China. The program is built on the PERC best practices for short-term international study abroad, which includes: Preparing students directly for the experience, Engaging with partners on the ground, Reflecting on personal development, and Continuing that development by using the program as a springboard for further opportunities. Lawrence University has adopted this model, which we’ve named the “traveling classroom,” to similar programs in Sierra Leone, Jamaica, Nepal and other countries. This article briefly outlines the history and objectives of the Sustainable China traveling classroom program, including how it represents an avenue for global engagement and a launching pad for further international education.
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The co-authors were drawn into studies of Asia and the Environment through the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (LIASE). Both developed new course material incorporating Asia and the Environment as complementary foci to their areas of expertise. Both made changes to curricular offerings and research trajectories, although pedagogical approaches and take-aways differed. The environmental scientist shifted understanding of the problems that comprise the subjects of environmental science and ethics toward a more global focus; the Asianist developed an appreciation for the importance of environmental studies methodologies tools in an historian’s repertoire. In this essay, the authors evaluate their pedagogical strategies and reflect on the ways in which classroom experiences and LIASE programming have influenced their own trajectories as teacher-scholars.
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