Transnational Competence

John N. Hawkins , Professor of Comparative and International Education and former Dean of International Studies and Overseas Programs at UCLA, is coeditor of Development or Deterioration: Work in Rural Asia. William K. Cummings is Professor and Director of the Center for Comparative and Global Studies in Education at the University at Buffalo. He is coeditor (with Philip Altbach) of Challenge of Eastern Asian Education, also published by SUNY Press.

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Exchanges in a Borderless World EconomyRichard J. WoodPart 1: The Challenge1. Transnationalism and Transnational Competence William K. Cummings2. The Knowledge Network Philip G. Altbach and Toru Umakoshi3. Foreign Language Education Kazue MasuyamaPart 2: Educational Exchanges4. An Overview of Cultural and Educational Exchanges Akimasa Mitsuta and Peggy Blumenthal5. Sister City and High School Exchanges Yoshiya Abe and Roberta Wollons6. Collegiate Exchanges John N. Hawkins, Yoshiro Tanaka, and Tina Yamano Nishida7. Technological Exchanges William K. Cummings and Shigeru NakayamaPart 3: Transnational Competence and Japan8. Japan's Role in Transnational Education Yoshiya Abe9. A New Focus for Japan Shigeru Nakayama and Yoshiro TanakaConclusion Redesigning the U.S.-Japan LinkageJohn N. HawkinsReferences Contributors Index Series Listing

"Policy makers in either Japan or the U.S. will find this book extremely useful in formulating position papers on a whole range of educational and government reforms aimed at making people more aware and technically capable of handling changes that have already begun to show in how nations interact with one another." — Richard Rubinger, chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University, and coeditor of Proliferating Talent: Essays on Politics, Thought, and Education in the Meiji Era