DAS INSTITUT FÜR OSTASIENWISSENSCHAFTEN/ SINOLOGIE Die Sinologie des Instituts für Ostasienwissenschaften freut sich, Sie zu folgendem Vortrag einladen zu dürfen: Prof. Dr. Chou Chiung Prudence Department of Education, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Why Taiwan’s Education Matters – When Globalization Meets Localization Why did Taiwanese students so well on international student assessments, such as TIMMS and PISA? What has changed and has remained unchanged regarding Taiwan’s relationship with China over the last decade? Can Taiwan walk out of the shadow of the rising China economically and politically? In her talk Chou tackles Taiwan’s educational reform and its broader implication for Taiwan and its relationship with other countries, in particular with China. In doing so, she details the multi-facetted forces that Taiwan’s education has encountered in a complicated environment where global, local, and cross-strait relationships are overlapping. What solutions can Taiwan offer to countries entrenched in similar conflicts? Why does Taiwan’s educational reform matter to the world? Chou proposes a new paradigm which attempts to promote mutual understanding and peace-making among nations of conflicts via cultural and educational exchanges with an emphasis on the case of China and Taiwan. Chou Chiung Prudecne ( 周祝瑛 ) received her PhD in Comparative and International Education from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has been a visiting professor for research and teaching in several prestigious universities. Her research interests include comparative higher education reform, gender equity in education, and educational exchanges in rival states. Among her various academic contributions she published three books: The Great Experiment of Taiwanese Education: 1987-2003, Taiwan Education at the Crossroad: When Globalization Meets Localization (together with Gregory Ching) (New York: Palgrave Macmillan), and Chinese Education Models in a Goble Age: Transforming Practice into Theory (Singapore: Springer) (forthcoming). She can be reached under: [email protected] Datum: Montag, den 15. Juni 2015 Zeit: 18:15 Uhr Ort: OAW