MACMILLAN New Directions of STEM Research and Learning in the World Ranking Movement: A Comparative Perspective (International and Development Education)

Product Description Introduction: The Dilemma of STEM-Social Science/Humanities Re-Integration           Chapter 1. STEM-Oriented Educational Policy across the World and Challenges: How STEM Disciplines Deal with 21st Learning Outcomes?   Chapter 2. A Recent History of the University Ranking Movement: Contextualizing Trends in Categories and Criteria    Chapter 3. STEM, University Rankings, and the Under-served: What's at Stake?      Chapter 4. Exploring the Relationship between STEM Research and World Higher Education Rankings: The Case of Taiwan    Chapter 5. Finding the Humanities in STEM: Anthropological Reflections from Working at the Intersection  Chapter 6. Developing Global Competencies through Interdisciplinary Studies: Why Collaboration is Important between STEM and Non-Stem Students     Chapter 7. It is not Just a Technical Problem: The Intersections of STEM and Social Science in Addressing Global Poverty    Chapter 8. Complementing STEM Higher Education: How Good are Korean Top-tier Research Universities at Developing Humanities Competencies of their STEM Undergraduates?    Chapter 9. Cultivating Students' Diverse Abilities through Arts-Education: Emergence of STEAM Perspective     Chapter 10. STEM Education in Changing Society: Japanese Experience and Urgent Problems to be Solved From the Back Cover This volume analyzes the dominance of STEM fields in various university rankings and the reasons why many governments in the world disproportionately give value to STEM fields. Secondly, although there is general agreement that STEM fields are important, chapter authors also examine the role of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches for a revised STEM education as well as implications for the future. The book presents examples from the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. About the Author John N. Hawkins is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles and former Co-Director of APHERP, East-West Center. Hawkins is a specialist on higher education reform in the U.S. and Asia and the author of several books and research articles on education and development in Asia. Recent books include Changing Education: Leadership, Innovation, and Development in a Globalizing Asia Pacific (with Peter D. Hershock and Mark Mason, Springer, 2007) and  Policy Debates in Comparative, International, and Development Education (with W. James Jacob, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). He has served as President of the Comparative International Education Society and Editor of the  Comparative Education Review. Aki Yamada received her Master of Arts in American Studies from Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, studying at Stanford University for one year as a Freeman Spogli Institute Visiting Researcher. In 2015 she completed her Ph.D. in Education at UCLA, writing her dissertation on new Japanese migrants and immigrants living in the United States. Her research interests include globalization, contemporary Asian immigration, transnational identity, and internationalization of higher education. Aki is now working as an Assistant Professor in the Empowerment Informatics program at University of Tsukuba.  Her recent work includes “Changing Dynamics of Asia Pacific Higher Education Globalization, Higher Education Massification, and the Direction of STEM Fields for East Asian Education and Individuals” in Redefining Asia Pacific Higher Education in Contexts of Globalization Private Markets and the Public Good (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp.117-128). Reiko Yamada is Dean and Professor of the Faculty of Social Studies and Director of the Center for Higher Education and Student Research at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. She was the inaugural President of the Japanese Association of the First-year Experience. She received a Ph.D. from UCLA. She is the author of For the Quality Assurance of Undergraduate Education (Toshindo, 2012), an