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Facts About Asia: Religious Freedom in Asia
Article 18 of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights is perhaps the strongest international endorsement of Religious Freedom ever written: “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.” It is particularly imperative in this special sec...
Teaching Students about Mindfulness and Modern Life
Are your students often distracted, seemingly addicted to their phones? Have you noticed, as suggested in the quotation above, that anxiety, depression, and other forms of mental and emotional suffering have been rising steadily among the young people you teach, especially in the time of the coronavirus pandemic, which began during final editing of this article? While perhaps a slight exaggeration, we remain convinced that some of our students would more likely give up food, sleep, and even actu...
Resources, Teaching Resources Essay
Using the Lowy Institute Asia Power Index to Teach Social Science: A Plan for a Facilitated Discussion
The Lowy Institute, one of Australia’s most well-regarded think tanks, released its second annual Asia Power Index in May 2019 (available at https://power.lowyinstitute.org). High school and college educators can use this resource to get students doing hands-on explorations of Asian political, military, economic, and diplomatic power using data. Students can learn about Asia while enhancing their data literacy and critical-thinking skills. This essay provides a plan for an interactive discussi...
In Memoriam: Jean Elliott Johnson
Jean Elliott Johnson passed away at the age of eighty-two after spending a lifetime advancing the movement of world history throughout her teaching and writing. She is survived by her husband and professional partner of fifty-seven years, Donald Johnson, three children, and three grandchildren. Jean will long be remembered for her commitment to teaching, students, peace, equity, and justice.
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Web Gleanings: Major Universities in Asia
For those who wish to study at a university in Asia, there are thousands of choices. To narrow the choices, it is helpful to consult with sites that rate the universities on a number of factors.
Below are several important evaluation sites:
A) Best Global Universities in Asia Source: US News and World Report
URL: http://tinyurl.com/jap4d6x
B) QS University Rankings: Asia 2015 Source: Top Universities
URL: http://tinyurl.com/j4tgchc
C) Asia University Rankings 2015 Source: Time...
Web Gleanings: Food, Culture and Asia
ASIA, GENERAL
The Rhythm of Rice Production
URL: http://on.natgeo.com/rewF5U
The National Geographic Society, in its Xpeditions section, provides this lesson plan for young elementary school students about the importance of rice in the economy and culture of Asia. A link to a handout is also available.
Food Timeline: Asian-American Cuisine
URL: http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodasian.html
Short overviews of the history of Asian food in America are accompanied by reviews and quotes from p...
The Asian Soul of Transcendentalism
The treatment of Transcendentalism by twentieth-century teachers of literature and American history has followed a long tradition of focusing primarily on the European and American cultural influences on its major figures, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Bronson and Louisa May Alcott. Their work is seen as fitting into various Western currents such as German Romanticism, Unitarian theology, neo-Platonism, and American utopian thought. In this framework, the...
Asia’s Turtle Crisis and Conservation: Environmental Education and Cultural Geography
By Bradley R. Reynolds and Thomas P. Wilson
Turtles are heavily exploited in Asia, not only for the pet trade, but also as a food source and for use in traditional Asian folk medicines. Along with habitat destruction, increased urbanization, and pollution, such over-exploitation is driving what conservationists are calling the Asian turtle crisis, a precipitous decline in Asian turtle populations. Currently, over half of Asia’s ninety turtle species are classified as endangered or critically ...
Teaching Asia: Exploring Online Curriculum with Catherine Higbee Ishida
Interviewed by Linda S. Wojtan
Editor’s Note: What follows is an interview with Cathy Ishida, who is earning an excellent national reputation for her stellar work with teachers. Cathy is on the staff of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Program for Teaching East Asia (TEA), where she has a number of professional development responsibilities. In addition to her work with the TEA program, Cathy played a major role in building the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Asia Com...
Web Gleanings: US, Asia, and the World: 1620–1914
Americans in Eastern Asia
URL: http://tinyurl.com/3mqdsly
The focus of this book, published in 1922, is on the relations between the United States and Korea, China, and Japan in the nineteenth century. The author relies greatly on Consular correspondence, but also refers to books and articles written in the last half of the nineteenth century.
Trading Places
URL: http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/trading/tradingplaces.html
This is part of the British Library’s Learning Series. It ex...
Advice to Students Choosing a Foreign Language: Go Asian
Having been a college professor for more than three decades, I have come to expect that one or two students will ask—almost weekly—what language he or she should study in college and why.
First, I tell my students that studying a foreign language requires a considerable commitment of time and energy, and it should be viewed as a lifetime endeavor; thus, the choice deserves careful consideration. Then I tell them that to answer the question, one must ask: What languages are going to be the...
Web Gleanings: Teaching the Geographies of Asia
Asia
URL: http://continents.pppst.com/asia.html
One can keep busy for days simply exploring the links on this site. For the most part, these are links to PowerPoint presentations by teachers. Some presentations are more detailed than others. The links are grouped by geographic region in Asia: Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Asia, etc., and by Asian country.
HowStuffWorks: Geography of Asia
URL: http://geography.howstuffworks.com/asia/geography-of-asia.htm
The Discovery Company p...
Thinking Geographically about Asia: Online Case Studies and Collaborative Projects for High School and Undergraduate Students
By Michael Solem and Waverly C. Ray
Improving Geographical Understanding of Asia: A Crucial Educational Challenge
America’s future in virtually every sense is tied inextricably to Asia’s. As a continent with subregions encompassing a stunning array of industrial activities, technological innovations, economic inequities, political systems, and environmental habitats, Asia provides a seemingly endless supply of opportunity, worry, mystery, and possibility. Also, Asia is a source of enormous...
Education About Asia: Spring 2011 Table of Contents
FEATURES
EAST ASIA AND THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHY STANDARDS 5
By Ronald G. Knapp
THE RISE OF EASTERN CHINA: FROM HOE CULTURE TO FACTORY CULTURE 12
Understanding China’s New Geographies
By Robert W. McColl
ENTRY INTO CHINA AND MARKET INTELLIGENCE 17
Machine Tool Exporters as a Case Study in Human Geography
By Dawn M. Drake and Ronald Kalafsky...
Taiwan: Nation State or Province
John F. Copper’s Taiwan: Nation-State or Province? remains as insightful, instructive, and relevant in its fifth edition as it was in its first printing in 1990. While the question posed in the title continues to be prone to political “spin,” Copper presents an objective narrative that paints an accurate, rich, and multi-faceted view of Taiwan’s development that has largely been separate from that of mainland China for more than a century. This new edition includes events up to about 200...
The Twentieth Century: Asia Returns to the Sea
While the history of human experiences at sea has always elicited a certain amount of interest, it has grown into a discipline in its own right. The first step for newcomers is to conceive of maritime history as a distinct field of inquiry and endeavor, and to do so without oversimplifying. This is harder than it might seem. It is commonplace, even among those well versed in oceanic affairs, to reduce maritime history to a chronicle of naval derring-do, and understandably
so. Sea warriors have ...
A Buddhist in the Classroom
In the Theravada Buddhist tradition of Southeast Asia, the Buddha was not a god or a savior, but a teacher. Sid Brown, who has a background as a Buddhist nun and now teaches Asian Studies at Sewanee: The University of the South, asked herself the question, “How does Buddhism influence the way I teach in twenty-first century America?” Her thoughts on that topic became the delightful book A Buddhist in the Classroom....
Jack London and the Yellow Peril
The term “The Yellow Peril” has long since passed out of fashion, but it was a widely used expression in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The nightmare of wild oriental hordes swarming from the East and engulfing the “civilized” societies of the West was a popular theme in literature and journalism of the time. Yellow Peril supposedly derives from a remark made by German Kaiser Wilhelm II following Japan’s defeat of China in 1895 in the first Sino-Japanese War. The ex...
Understanding East Asia’s Economic “Miracles”: A Brief Interview with KIAS Author Zhiqun Zhu
Key Issues in Asian Studies (KIAS) booklets complement Education About Asia and are practical teaching resources for college, university, and senior high school teachers and students. Zhiqun Zhu is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair in East Asian Politics and an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Bucknell
University in Pennsylvania. His recent publications include US-China Relations in the 21st Century: Power Transition and Peace (London and New York: ...
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