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Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Ann Arbor, MI USA: Publisher of Education for Asia
AskAsia
The Asia Society's online clearinghouse for K–12 Asian and Asian
American studies. AskAsia offers easy, 24-hour access to high-quality,
classroom-tested resources and cultural information, engaging games and activities, and
links to relevant people, places, and institutions. AskAsia is an integral part
of the Asia Society's Asian Education Resource
Center (AERC), a national initiative designed to provide access to quality resources on
Asian and Asian American themes at the elementary and secondary levels.
Asia
Educational Media Service (AEMS)
The AEMS website offers access to the searchable database of audio-visual
resources on China, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia. The database is searchable by
country, media type, academic discipline or subject, keyword, and date of release.
Database records provide descriptions of the resources and information about sources for
purchase and/or rental. Also includes an interactive information request form, newsletter,
a catalogue of selected resources for K–12 education, reviews of new and significant
resources, and links to related websites.
Asia for Educators
Features a wide range of classroom materials and
faculty guides for teaching about East Asia at the K-12 and undergraduate
levels. Includes multimedia teaching units, primary sources, timelines, and
more.
ASIANetwork
A consortium of over one hundred North American colleges, ASIANetwork
strives to strengthen the role of Asian Studies within the framework of liberal arts
education to help prepare a new generation of undergraduates for a world in which Asian
societies will play more and more prominent roles.
Asia
for Kids
Asia for Kids offers hard-to-find resources for the home,
classroom or library. Its mission is to make the rich Asian heritage and its diverse
languages accessible to everyone. Its collection includes books, language textbooks,
videos, audio cassettes, software, CD-ROMs, dolls, games, posters, crafts, t-shirts and
resource materials for parents and teachers.
Association
of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ)
The ATJ is an international, non-profit, non-political organization of
scholars, teachers, and students of Japanese language, literature, and linguistics, which
works to promote academic work in the field and to broaden and deepen knowledge and
appreciation of Japan and its culture.
Chinese
Children's Books (Childbook.com)
Chinese Children Books, Video's, Audio and computer CD's, and other materials for
libraries, ESL Programs, and government institutions for teaching Chinese Culture and
Language with secure online ordering.
The China Box
The China Box makes it fun to learn the basics of Chinese geography, culture,
language, family life, food, festivals, etc. This award-winning teaching tool is the first
in a series of Country Starter Kits, artifact-based educational tools designed to help
teach world cultures to elementary and middle school children in classroom or home
settings. The items in the The China Box and the accompanying ChinaTalk
handbook make it possible for children to engage in hands-on learning—the kind of
learning that awakens interest, sharpens curiosity, and establishes a foundation for
further study.
Expanding East Asian Studies (ExEAS) Program
(Columbia University)
The ExEAS program is intended to create innovative courses and teaching
materials that incorporate the study of East Asia in broad thematic,
transnational, and interdisciplinary contexts. The program is carried out by
a teaching collaborative composed of postdoctoral fellows, members of the
Barnard College and Columbia University faculty, and faculty participants
from two- and four-year undergraduate institutions in the Northeastern
United States. Syllabi, teaching units, and other materials developed by the
ExEAS Teaching Collaborative are available for free to the public.
Five College Center for East Asian
Studies
The Five College Center for East Asian Studies is one of many programs administered
by Five Colleges, Incorporated. The member institutions of the consortium are Amherst,
Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
In addition to the Center's concern with undergraduate East Asian studies at the five
institutions, we aim to support, encourage, and improve the teaching of East Asian
cultures in elementary, middle, and secondary schools and two- year colleges in New
England. We work to improve the quality, quantity, and distribution of resources for
teaching about East Asia at the college and precollege levels and to offer opportunities
for precollege educators to experience East Asian cultures firsthand. The Center maintains
a Resource Library, publishes a newsletter three times a year, and conducts seminars,
institutes, conferences, and workshops for college and precollege educators.
"Nepal,
Water, and Development"
This curriculum package, designed for a 6th grade social studies use but easily
adaptable for other grades/classes, was developed by Educate the Children (www.etc-nepal.org) and Cornell University's South Asia
Program.
Teaching
East Asia (TEA), University of Colorado, Boulder
Teaching East Asia (TEA) includes several projects designed to enhance and
expand teaching about Japan and China at the elementary and secondary levels. Specific
projects focus on curriculum development, institutionalizing curriculum reform related to
East Asia in K–12 education, and professional development for teachers. An underlying
mission in all TEA programs is to bring current research and scholarship on China and
Japan to K–12 teachers and, through them, to elementary and secondary students.
Teaching
South Asia
Teaching South Asia, published by Project South Asia at Missouri Southern
State College with the aid of a two-year federal grant, is a new, refereed, freely
accessible Internet journal devoted exclusively to facilitating the study and teaching of
South Asia at the post-secondary level. The journal will feature articles written by
teaching professors and advanced post-graduate students (with teaching experience) from
around the world that address issues of teaching and learning about South Asia. The range
of topics can be diverse, from how to introduce South Asian religions in a first year
survey to discussions of the use of primary sources in advanced history classes. Published
biannually, Teaching South Asia will act as an on-line forum for teaching
professors and others, emphasizing interdisciplinary teaching methods at the undergraduate
and post-graduate levels.
EDUCATION IN ASIAN LANGUAGES, by Linda Chance, University of Pennsylvania (from Education About Asia, Volume 3, Number 3, Winter 1998)