New Knowledge in a New Era of Globalization

Edited by Piotr Pachura, ISBN 978-953-307-501-3, 366 pages, Publisher: InTech, Chapters published August 01, 2011 under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license
DOI: 10.5772/982
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To better understand the contemporary world, the world of innovation and technology, science should try to synthesize and assimilate social science in the development of our civilization. Does the new era require new knowledge? Does the age of globalization demand new education, new human attitudes? This books tries to clarify these questions. The book New Knowledge in a New Era of Globalization consists of 16 chapters divided into three sections: Globalization and Education; Globalization and Human Being; Globalization and Space. The Authors of respective chapters represent a great diversity of disciplines and methodological approaches as well as a variety of academic culture. This book is a valuable contribution and it will certainly be appreciated by a global community of scholars.

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• Chapter 1  The Importance of Globalization in Higher Educationby Patricia Fox and Stephen Hundley
• Chapter 2  Globalization Creates New Challenges in Higher Education - Two New Educational Activities Addressing the Challengesby Bjoern Jaeger and Berit I. Helgheim
• Chapter 3  Globalization and Higher Education in Taiwanby Dian-Fu Chang, Cheng-Ta Wu, Gregory Ching, Chia-wei Tang and Lin Xiao
• Chapter 4  Professional Skills: The Globalization Equalizerby Ronald Welch
• Chapter 5  Impact of Globalization on Indian Technical Education Systemby Mahadevi. S. Banad and Mahadev. Talawar
• Chapter 6  How to Discover a New World Without Being in Danger of Wreckby Miguel González-Carbajal Pascual and Ludmila Martínez Leyva
• Chapter 7  Sport in Asia: Globalization, Glocalization, Asianizationby Peter Horton
• Chapter 8  Simularizing Tradition and Foreign: Osmotic Production of Justice in the Milieu of Hong Kong Anti-Domestic Violence Lawby Chiu Man-chung
• Chapter 9  The Impact of Globalization Determinants and the Health of the World’s Populationby Mario J. Azevedo and Barbara H. Johnson
• Chapter 10  Ups and Downs of Ethnic Identity in the Era of Globalization (Focusing on the Middle East Region)by Akbar Valadbigi and Shahab Ghobadi
• Chapter 11  Fostering a “Monozukuri (Manufacturing)” Organization Suitable for the 21st Century Digital Economyby Toshiko Asai, Hidehiko Hayashi and Akinori Minazuki
• Chapter 12  Globalization and Global Public Goodsby Bernur Açıkgöz Ersoy
• Chapter 13  Building Sustainable Capacity for Disease Diagnosis in Sub-Saharan Africa: Case Studies of Cooperation in Diagnostic Pathologyby Renato Mariani-Costantini, Khalid Dafaallah Awadelkarim, Massimo Barberis, Claudio Clemente, Pasquale De Blasio, Mario Di Gioacchino, Agostino Faravelli, Marco Forni, Piergiovanni Grigolato, Lorenzo Leoncini, Karin Schuerfeld, Ahmed Abdalla Mohamedani, Giuseppe Lattanzio, Sandra Rosini and Vincenzo Stracca Pansa
• Chapter 14  Globalization in the Brazilian Amazon Region: Conflicting Answers from “Quilombo” Communitiesby Florent Kohler, Ludivine Eloy, François-Michel Le Tourneau, Claire Couly, Stéphanie Nasuti, Dorothée Serges, Sophie Caillon, Guillaume Marchand and Anna Greissing
• Chapter 15  The European Model of Agricultural Policy in the Global Contextby Věra Bečvářova
• Chapter 16  Future of Heritage – A Condition for Space Integrityby Lemja Chabbouh Akšamija