TY - JOUR
T1 - Critical teaching about Asia
T2 - Orientalism, postcolonial perspectives and cross-cultural education
AU - Nozaki, Yoshiko
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This paper explores the ways to develop a curriculum and pedagogy to teach Asian cultures and histories to US students - and by implication to students in the West - from critical postcolonial perspectives. In particular, by examining studies of Japan as an example, it identifies and discusses several key issues, including application of the concept of Orientalism, (commonsensical) binary oppositions that lurk in cross-cultural studies and understandings, and cultural essentialisms and nationalisms that emerge in (de-colonised and modernising) Asian nations. The paper argues that postcolonial perspectives can offer us a set of useful theoretical tools to counteract the hegemonic ways of teaching and studying about Asia.
AB - This paper explores the ways to develop a curriculum and pedagogy to teach Asian cultures and histories to US students - and by implication to students in the West - from critical postcolonial perspectives. In particular, by examining studies of Japan as an example, it identifies and discusses several key issues, including application of the concept of Orientalism, (commonsensical) binary oppositions that lurk in cross-cultural studies and understandings, and cultural essentialisms and nationalisms that emerge in (de-colonised and modernising) Asian nations. The paper argues that postcolonial perspectives can offer us a set of useful theoretical tools to counteract the hegemonic ways of teaching and studying about Asia.
KW - Cross-cultural education
KW - Curriculum theory
KW - Postcolonial theory
KW - Teaching about Asia
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U2 - 10.1080/07256860902766941
DO - 10.1080/07256860902766941
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:67650575739
VL - 30
SP - 141
EP - 155
JO - Journal of Intercultural Studies
JF - Journal of Intercultural Studies
SN - 0725-6868
IS - 2
ER -