'Re-orienting' the Global Learning Experience: Higher Education in the Relations Between the European Union and Asia and the Subject of 'European Studies'

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Author: Wiessala, Georg

Source: European Studies: A Journal of European Culture, History and Politics, The European Union and Asia: Reflections and Re-orientations Edited by Peter Anderson and Georg Wiessala , pp. 287-313(27)

Publisher: Rodopi

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Abstract:

Staying with the themes of people-to-people contact and educational exchange, the last chapter in this collection argues that there is an important, two-fold, learning-dimension in EU-Asia relations: partners in East and West learn both from, and with one another. Against this background, this chapter offers an exploration of the roles of learning and exchange, and of cultural and academic interaction, within wider EU-Asia cooperation. The author examines, in particular, the relevant EU strategies in regard to Higher Education, and their potential for the formulation and implementation of EU foreign policies towards Asia. This section also critically assesses the educational content, and practical relevance, of many of the Union's Asia Strategies, in term of academic EU-Asia collaboration and research. It further examines issues such as cultural presence, entrenched stereotypes and dissemination of values in the EU-Asia relationship. The chapter includes a number of shorter case studies, which focus on the dynamic, inter-disciplinary and expanding, subject-area of European Studies in Asia.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2007-10-01