Researching Higher Education in Asia History, Development and Future

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Contents

1 Introduction: Higher Education Research
as a Field of Study in Asia ...................................................................... 1
Jisun Jung, Hugo Horta, and Akiyoshi Yonezawa

Part I Conceptualization and Understandings
of Higher Education Research in Asia

2 Higher-Education Researchers in Asia: The Risks
of Insufficient Contribution to International
Higher-Education Research ................................................................... 15
Hugo Horta

3 Foil to the West? Interrogating Perspectives for Observing
East Asian Higher Education ................................................................. 37
Rui Yang

4 Higher Education Knowledge Production
in Postcolonial-Neoliberal Asia .............................................................. 51
Jae Park

5 Regionalism, Regionalization of Higher Education,
and Higher Education Research: Mapping the Development
in Regionalization of Higher Education Research ............................... 73
Roger Y. Chao Jr.

Part II East Asia

6 Higher Education Research in Japan:
Seeking a Connection with the International
Academic Community ............................................................................ 113
Akiyoshi Yonezawa