Education about Asia

Posted on 09 May 2009

As I gather statistics and prepare the library annual report, I have been considering—What are this year’s highlights?

One of my bigger surprises was the subscription called Education about Asia from the Association of Asian Studies. I only was familiar with their Journal of Asian Studies. Somehow I missed this one, but am I ever delighted to have found it. In fact, I incidentally discovered it from an advertisement. It happened to be an advertisement next to an article I had written on inquiry for Knowledge Quest. This was a savvy move from the Knowledge Quest team since the inquiry article discussed a school in China. Thank you Knowledge Quest team!

I cannot recommend this resource enough for any school that has an Asian studies emphasis. They describe themselves as

“a unique and innovative magazine—a practical teaching resource for secondary school, college, and university instructors, as well as an invaluable source of information for students, scholars, libraries, and those who have an interest in Asia. Teachers and students from a wide range of disciplines—anthropology, Asian studies, business and economics, education, geography, government, history, language and literature, political science, religion, and sociology, among others.”

We ordered the entire set of back issues. The EAA site also provides a thorough search tool to search Tables of Contents from the entire collection. In addition, the Web Gleanings from each issue is also posted on their website. It gathers significant websites about the main topic of the published issue.

The Humanities department was very excited about this resource, and the head even offered the help of his assistant to input the table of contents data into our catalog for searching. I know this also will be a wonderful resource for the language departments.

This quality and topical resource combined with the enthusiasm of teaching colleagues made this one of our top additions this year.