Western Perspectives on Chinese Higher Education: A Model for Cross-cultural InquiryFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1996 - Всего страниц: 189 Drawing on the two theories' strengths while avoiding their weaknesses, the book proposes realist constructivism as a general epistemic model for one area of inquiry - cross-cultural studies, defined as studies involving scholars from one society or culture studying another. The model has a descriptive and a normative dimension. Descriptively, realist constructivism maintains that a scholarly study of another society does reveal and is constrained by the studied society's social reality while being thoroughly shaped by factors involving the scholar and his society, whereas normatively it urges that a cross-cultural study should reveal and be constrained by the studied society's relevant social reality while being thoroughly shaped by a host of factors involving the scholar and his society. |
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Approaches Statements and Assumptions | 37 |
Emphases and Silences | 51 |
Translating Terms | 73 |
Points of View | 91 |
Evaluation | 114 |
Methodological Summary | 127 |
Concluding Remarks | 134 |
Notes | 139 |
Works Cited | 159 |
Index | 184 |
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Стр. 143 - ... from a transnational research enterprise, the World Order Models Project. Because the World Order Models Project (WOMP) is likely to be the forerunner of many more such transnational and global enterprises, it seems appropriate to say something about its genesis, development, and future. WOMP was initially conceived in response to pedagogical needs related to the study of the problem of the elimination of war as a human social institution.
Стр. 29 - ... read, interpret, and understand the often fugitive political conduct of subordinate groups' (Scott 1990: xii; see also Comaroff 1985: 261).
Стр. 17 - The realist solution was to reformulate the problem: to draw the consequences from the conventionalist critique of immediate experience, and to shift the emphasis back from epistemology, the theory of knowledge, to ontology. Given that we have scientific theories, and that on the whole they seem to work remarkably well as an explanation of the world, what must the world be like in order for science to be possible?
Стр. 6 - In this practical reason falls into line with a pervasive feature of modern intellectual culture, which one could call the primacy of the epistemological: the tendency to think out the question of what something is in terms of the question of how it is known" ("Explanation and Practical Reason,
Стр. 65 - Framing was even more dramatically weakened. The Ministry of Higher Education, which had been responsible for the planning and dissemination of nationally standard teaching plans, outlines, and textbooks for each specialization throughout the country, was abolished. All the old textbooks were criticized for their theoretical formality and narrow specialization and either discarded or radically altered. Three-in-one committees made up of students, teachers, and worker-peasant-soldier representatives...
Стр. 94 - The formulations have been various: "inside" versus "outside," or "first person" versus "third person" descriptions; "phenomenological" versus "objectivist," or "cognitive" versus "behavioral" theories; or, perhaps most commonly "emic" versus "etic" analyses, this last deriving from the distinction in linguistics between phonemics and phonetics, phonemics classifying sounds according to their internal function in language, phonetics classifying them according...
Стр. 85 - Studies and to the dean's office of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida for granting me the necessary leave time to complete this project.