Asia as Method in Education Studies

A defiant research imagination

Hongzhi Zhang, Philip Chan, Jane Kenway, Philip Wing Keung Chan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781138785960
• eBook ISBN: 9781317663638
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Comparative Education

Unlearning and re-inventing the theoretical frameworks of Intercultural and Asian Studies is central to this book as it is to Chen Kuan-Hsing's evocative Asia as Method; this book's inspirational source. Chen insists that studies of Asia move beyond their paralysing fixation on the West as either a positive or negative referent and that they develop their own standpoints, reference points and research agendas. Asia as Method in Education Studies, is therefore, a provocative and suggestive exploration of educational ideas imported from the West. Chen's challenge provokes the writers in this collection to consider the implications of colonial and imperialist forces for education systems, policies and practices as well as for educational research itself. The writers offer examples of what it means to rethink and re-examine education in Asia beyond both the Western imperialist eye and the post-colonial 'politics of resentment'. Asia as Method in Education Studies combines the diverse research of scholars from various countries of Asia as they consider, for example:

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• Struggles to Construct New Research Imaginations in Response to Chen's Challenges

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• East-West Dialogue: Three Cases in Chinese Educational Research

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• "Asia as [a] method" of Complexity and Dialogue

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• Generalizing the Self? Asianizing Perspectives on International Education and the Formation of Self

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• Against Asia-centric Methods: Australia-China Theoretic-linguistic Knowledge Co-production

Highly anticipated for its novel contemporary perspectives, this book offers researchers specialising in educational studies and policy-making fresh practices of thought.

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Asia as Method in Education Studies

A defiant research imagination

Edited by Hongzhi Zhang, Philip Wing Keung Chan and Jane Kenway

Asia as Method in Education Studies

A defiant research imagination

Edited by Hongzhi Zhang, Philip Wing Keung Chan and Jane Kenway

Asia as Method in Education Studies

A defiant research imagination

Edited by Hongzhi Zhang, Philip Wing Keung Chan and Jane Kenway

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Asia as method in education studies/edited by Hongzhi Zhang, Philip Wing Keung Chan, Jane Kenway.

pages cm. – (Routledge critical studies in Asian education) 1. Education – Research – Asia. 2. Educational change – Asia. 3. Education – Asia – Western influences. 4. Postcolonialism – Asia. 5. Chen, Kuan-Hsing. Asia as method. I. Zhang, Hongzhi (Research assistant), editor of compilation. II. Chan, Philip Wing Keung, editor of compilation. III. Kenway, Jane, editor of compilation.

LB1028.25.A78A75 2015

370.72095 – dc23

2014030448

ISBN: 978-1-138-78596-0 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-76750-5 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781315767505

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Contents

• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Preface: can a spider weave its way out of the web that it is being woven into, just as it weaves? Angel M.Y. Lin
• Introduction: struggles to construct new research imaginations in response to Chen’s challenges Philip Wing Keung Chan, Hongzhi Zhang and Jane Kenway
• 1 ‘Asia as method’: Chen’s conceptual openings Jane Kenway
• 2 East–West dialogue: three cases of educational research in China and Australia Hongzhi Zhang, Philip Wing Keung Chan, Yujia Wang and Cunzhen Yang
• 3 The Japanese perception of silence in the Australian educational context Dat Bao
• 4 ‘Asia as [a] method’ of complexity and dialogue Bin Wu
• 5 Vietnam, the West and the generalized Self in transnational education Thi Nhai Nguyen and Peodair Leihy
• 6 Towards deimperialization of instructional strategies: cases of task-based learning and reflective practice implementation in the Indonesian context Paulus Kuswandono, Isti Gandana and Siti Rohani
• 7 Problematizing the ‘East–West dichotomy’ through the language practices and values of young English-language teacher trainees in Vietnam Hai Ha Vu and Thuy Linh Le
• 8 Doing educational research in Bangladesh: challenges in applying Western research methodology Mohammod Moninoor Roshid, Mohammad Nure Alam Siddique, Mahbub Sarkar, Foez Ahmed Mojumder and Hosne Ara Begum
• 9 Against Asia-centric methods: Australia–China theoretic–linguistic knowledge co-production Michael Singh
• 10 A collaborative postscript: imagination, aspiration, anticipation and hesitation Hongzhi Zhang, Philip Wing Keung Chan and Jane Kenway
• Index

Contributors

Editors

Hongzhi Zhang is a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. His main research interests are inclusive education, education policy, higher education and Asian studies. He has published more than ten peer-reviewed articles. Hongzhi is one of the main editors of the book Equality in Education: Fairness and inclusion (Sense Publisher, 2014).

Philip Wing Keung Chan is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Monash University. He had worked in course development and training at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers. He was a convenor of Monash Education Research Community. His recent publications include Asia Pacific Education: Diversity, challenges and changes (Monash University Publishing, 2012), Governing education in China: PISA, comparison and educational regions, in Governing Knowledge: 2014 World Yearbook of Education (Routledge, with Terri Seddon, 2014) and Equality in Education: Fairness and inclusion (Sense Publisher, with Hongzhi Zhang and Christopher Boyle, 2014).

Jane Kenway is a Professorial Fellow with the Australian Research Council, a Professor in the Education Faculty at Monash and an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Australia. Her specialist field is the sociology of education, with a particular focus on educational power, politics and injustice. Her more recent jointly written books are Haunting the Knowledge Economy (Routledge, 2006) and Masculinity Beyond the Metropolis (Palgrave, 2006). Her most recent jointly edited book is Globalising the Research Im...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Frontmatter 1
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Preface: can a spider weave its way out of the web that it is being woven into, just as it weaves?—Angel M.Y. Lin
• Introduction: struggles to construct new research imaginations in response to Chen’s challenges—Philip Wing Keung Chan, Hongzhi Zhang and Jane Kenway
• 1 ‘Asia as method’: Chen’s conceptual openings—Jane Kenway
• 2 East–West dialogue: three cases of educational research in China and Australia—Hongzhi Zhang, Philip Wing Keung Chan, Yujia Wang and Cunzhen Yang
• 3 The Japanese perception of silence in the Australian educational context—Dat Bao
• 4 ‘Asia as [a] method’ of complexity and dialogue—Bin Wu
• 5 Vietnam, the West and the generalized Self in transnational education—Thi Nhai Nguyen and Peodair Leihy
• 6 Towards deimperialization of instructional strategies: cases of task-based learning and reflective practice implementation in the Indonesian context—Paulus Kuswandono, Isti Gandana and Siti Rohani
• 7 Problematizing the ‘East–West dichotomy’ through the language practices and values of young English-language teacher trainees in Vietnam—Hai Ha Vu and Thuy Linh Le
• 8 Doing educational research in Bangladesh: challenges in applying Western research methodology—Mohammod Moninoor Roshid, Mohammad Nure Alam Siddique, Mahbub Sarkar, Foez Ahmed Mojumder and Hosne Ara Begum
• 9 Against Asia-centric methods: Australia–China theoretic–linguistic knowledge co-production—Michael Singh
• 10 A collaborative postscript: imagination, aspiration, anticipation and hesitation—Hongzhi Zhang, Philip Wing Keung Chan and Jane Kenway
• Index