Teaching about Asia in a time of pandemic / edited by David Kenley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kenley, David L., 1968- editor.

Series:

Asia Shorts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teaching--Methodology.

Teaching.

COVID-19 (Disease).

Web-based instruction.

Asia--Study and teaching.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : Association for Asian Studies, [2020]

Summary:

Teaching About Asia in a Time of Pandemic presents many lessons learned by educators during the COVID-19 outbreak. The volume consists of two sections, one discussing how to teach using examples and case studies emerging from the pandemic and the other focusing on pedagogical tools and methods beyond the traditional face-to-face classroom.

Contents:

Introduction: Getting past the plexiglass / David Kenley

We've never been global : how local meanings mattered in 1900 and still matter now / Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Sikhi, Seva, and Sarbat da Bhala in a pandemic / Tejpaul Singh Bainiwal

Understanding South Korea's religious landscape, Patient 31, and COVID-19 exceptionalism / Minjung Noh

Death, disease, and Buddhist patronage in Japan : the Great Smallpox Epidemic of 735 / Melody Rod-ari

Taiwan and COVID-19 : global pressure, domestic success / Lucien Ellington, Jeffrey Melnik, and Thomas J. Shattuck

Mythmaking and COVID-19 : Asian alternatives to "warfare" against disease / Kin Cheung

Explaining the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on China-Africa relations / Richard Aidoo

India's pandemic response as a mirror on understanding India's complexities / Tinaz Pavri

A literature of loss : studying narratives of exile in medieval Japan in the context of COVID-19 / Susan Spencer

Teaching the edges of empires : Hong Kong and Taiwan amidst the COVID-19 pandemic / Justin Wu

Zooming to Indonesia : cultural exchange without study abroad / Gareth Barkin

Somatic approaches to teaching Asia online : a case study of Taijiquan training for actors / Adam D. Frank

Podcasting during the pandemic and beyond / Tristan R. Grunow

Designing and implementing a tandem language learning (TLL) program for learners of Chinese and English using the social media app QQ / Jeffrey Gil, Han Lin, and Gwendolyn Campbell

Digital investigations : using virtual fieldwork in the classroom / Byron Haast and Phillip O'Brien

Blogging as digital citizens in an online course / Nabaparna Ghosh

Teaching Asia : online Harkness discussions / Jared Hall

What's in a wet market? Anthropology of food and Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic / Sarah G. Grant

Teaching college-level Asian politics through simulations in online environments / Petra Hendrickson

Investigating the COVID-19 pandemic : an East Asian perspective / Matthew Roberts

China in the age of COVID-19 : strategies for teaching survey students / Tanya L. Roth.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Kenley, David Teaching About Asia in a Time of Pandemic

ISBN:

1-952636-20-5