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Category: Education

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Classics/Education/Qing

Why Study?

Posted on September 23, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Jeremiah from Granite Studio has  post about the debate in American universities about the relationship between education and training. Anthony Kronman claims t...

Diaspora/Education/General/International Affairs/Japan/US-Japan/明治

Hawaiian Kanji

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

No, I’m not going to show you some cartoon of a spam musubi or a “remove your shoes” sign. This is, apparently, serious stuff: Educators worki...

Academia/Education/English/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Museums/Nationalism/War/昭和

Japanese War Memories at ASPAC

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I’m not going to go though quite the same song-and-dance I did with Japanese Diaspora or South Asian studies because these issues are much more familiar t...

China/China-Japan/Education/English/Republican/Sino-Japanese Wars

Drop and give me twenty

Posted on June 20, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

While here in Shanghai I have been doing a bit of research. My new project is on 训练 and military training during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and in par...

China/Education/Historiography

Where's my check?

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 13 Comments

A lot of discussion of who China scholars in the U.S. -really- work for. (Hint, it’s not Cleo) One thread of the discussion, from Far Eastern Economic Rev...

China/Classics/Education/English/General

Such are the guidelines for students

Posted on December 7, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

For the end of the semester, Guanzi on Duties of the Student from the Rickett translation The teacher presents his teachings; students take them as standards fo...

Academia/Education/Japan/Teaching

The Trials and Tribulations of Teaching

Posted on December 3, 2006 by Morgan Pitelka / 11 Comments

A friend who teaches American and sometimes Asian history courses sent me the following enquiry, which she received via email from one of her American history s...

Art/Education/English/General/Japan/Teaching/Web Sites/明治/江戸

Thanksgiving Vacation and Homework

Posted on December 3, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Over Thanksgiving weekend, my family and I went over to the Waikoloa Hilton. My son loves the boats and trams, and there’s nothing like watching dolphins ...

China/Education/Events/General/Taiwan

Happy 2,557th Birthday to you!

Posted on September 26, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Yes, on September 28th Taiwan will be celebrating the 2,557th birthday of Confucius. The date may be a bit off (he is getting a bit forgetful in his old age), b...

China/Education/General/Post-Mao/Teaching

Braudel in Shanghai

Posted on September 5, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

There has been a good deal of comment on Chinese history textbook revisions of late. Mao is gone! For foreigners who can only name one Chinese historical figure...

China/Education/Ethnic Minorities/General

Even Barbarians can become good

Posted on June 30, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

How does one become a good person? That is a question that crops up a lot when one reads the Confucians. In fact, for Confucians the processes of self-cultivati...

Current/Recent Events/Education/General/Japan/Law/Nationalism/Politics

Shades of Mori Arinori

Posted on May 27, 2006 by Nick Kapur / 1 Comment

Recently the Japanese Diet has been debating several competing bills to revise the Fundamental Education Law of 1947.  One of the most contested issues is an ef...

Cultural/Education/English/General/Intellectual/Japan/Nationalism/大正

Dewey In Japan

Posted on July 6, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Naoko Saito takes John Dewey’s visits to Japan as a starting place for questions about “Education for Global Understanding” [registration requ...

Books/China/Economics/Education/English/General/Historiography/Post-Mao/Social History

One-Child Policy as History

Posted on June 22, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 10 Comments

I just finished teaching 20th century China, and the three biggest issues in the last section of the course were clearly economic growth, political liberalizati...

Art/China-Japan/Education/English/Gender/Japan/Korea-Japan/Law/Memory/Nationalism/Politics/大正/明治/昭和

Updates: Textbook and Constitutional revision

Posted on May 28, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

The Tri-national textbook I wrote about here has been published. The South Koreans, at least, are taking it pretty seriously [via Ralph Luker], with national di...

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