Reforming Learning and Teaching in Asia-Pacific Universities

This book focuses on learning and teaching as the core business of
higher education and explores reformative efforts in response to the influences
of globalised processes in three advanced economies in the Asia-Pacific region:
Japan, Hong Kong and Australia. This is a significant book as it adds to
limited discussions on the globalisation of learning debates, and scholarly
reflections on the links between globalised processes and changing educational
practices, critical to understanding the current challenges and options
available for charting future development for universities in the Asia-Pacific
region and beyond. It rejects an essentialising perspective that considers
changes as inevitable and uniform. Instead it considers negotiations,
arguments, and even resistance as competing forces and integral components of
the process of reforming pedagogical practices in Asia-Pacific universities.
This book discusses globalised processes as a new context for reforming
learning and teaching and its focused discussions cover topics including
meeting the needs of new student groups, new technological practices for
change, use of English as an international language, and challenges in
assessment and quality assurance.