NEW KNOWLEDGE IN A NEW ERA OF GLOBALIZATION Edited by Piotr Pachura New Knowledge in a New Era of Globalization Edited by Piotr Pachura Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2011 InTech All chapters are Open Access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike Attribution 3.0 license, which permits to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work in any medium, so long as the original work is properly cited. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. 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ISBN 978-953-307-501-3 free online editions of InTech Books and Journals can be found at www.intechopen.com Contents Preface IX Part 1 Globalization and Education 1 Chapter 1 The Importance of Globalization in Higher Education 3 Patricia Fox and Stephen Hundley Chapter 2 Globalization Creates New Challenges in Higher Education - Two New Educational Activities Addressing the Challenges 21 Bjoern Jaeger and Berit I. Helgheim Chapter 3 Globalization and Higher Education in Taiwan 35 Dian-Fu Chang, Cheng-Ta Wu, Gregory Ching, Chia-wei Tang and Lin Xiao Chapter 4 Professional Skills: The Globalization Equalizer 49 Ronald Welch Chapter 5 Impact of Globalization on Indian Technical Education System 73 Mahadevi. S. Banad and Mahadev. Talawar Chapter 6 How to Discover a New World Without Being in Danger of Wreck 97 Miguel González-Carbajal Pascual and Ludmila Martínez Leyva Chapter 7 Sport in Asia: Globalization, Glocalization, Asianization 119 Peter Horton Part 2 Globalization and Human Being 147 Chapter 8 Simularizing Tradition and Foreign: Osmotic Production of Justice in the Milieu of Hong Kong Anti-Domestic Violence Law 149 Chiu Man-chung VI Contents Chapter 9 The Impact of Globalization Determinants and the Health of the World’s Population 165 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) 183 Akbar Valadbigi and Shahab Ghobadi Chapter 11 Fostering a “Monozukuri (Manufacturing)” Organization Suitable for the 21 st Century Digital Economy 199 Toshiko Asai, Hidehiko Hayashi and Akinori Minazuki Chapter 12 Globalization and Global Public Goods 225 Bernur Açıkgöz Ersoy Chapter 13 Building Sustainable Capacity for Disease Diagnosis in Sub-Saharan Africa: Case Studies of Cooperation in Diagnostic Pathology 243 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 Part 3 Globalization and Space 267 Chapter 14 Globalization in the Brazilian Amazon Region: Conflicting Answers from “Quilombo” Communities 269 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 Context 285 Věra Bečvářová Chapter 16 Future of Heritage – A Condition for Space Integrity 311 Lemja Chabbouh Akšamija Preface To better understand the contemporary world, the world of innovation and technology, the science should try to synthesize and assimilate the social science and humanities in the development of our civilization. Evolution of scientific research and knowledge creation show that the center of science until 17th century was located in Italy, then moved to Britain, France and Germany and finally in the 20th century to the USA (Ben-David Joseph, , Centers of Learning: Britain, France, Germany, United States, New York, MacGrow Hill 1977) 20th century relocation of centers of science can be pictured by geographical location of Nobel Prize winners in chemistry, physics and medicine. Simultaneously, the evolution shows a transition starting with individual findings and scientific works in times when modern science was born (Newton, Galileo, Darwin, Einstein) through the beginning of the 20th century characterized by cooperation of small research teams Skłodowska and Curie – (radioactive elements), Crick and Watson (DNA structure) and finally collaboration networks. At present, a research and knowledge creation paradigm dominates based on wide collaboration networks. As it is remarked by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (Science, Vol. 308, 29th of April 2005) modern findings and development of knowledge do not result from brilliance of an individual but from quality and nature of cooperation between units in collaboration networks. The resulting new values, ideas and discoveries originate from system’s emergence. The genesis of this book results from INTECH mission of interdisciplinarity augmentation in scholar publications. Does the new era require new knowledge? Does the age of globalization demands new education, new human attitudes? This book at least possibly tries to gauge on this 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 great diversity of disciplines and methodological approaches as well as a variety of academic culture. This is the value of this book and this merit will be appreciated by a global community of scholars. X Preface As editor of this book I would like to express gratitude for the trust endowed by the Publisher, but most of all I would like to express my appreciation for the Authors of all chapters. June 2011 Prof Piotr Pachura Częstochowa, Poland [...]... study abroad experiences of varying lengths and contexts • Engaging students in classroom, co-curricular, and other educational activities that heighten their awareness of internationalization • Fostering service learning, undergraduate research, and experiential education that includes an international component 18 • New Knowledge in a New Era of Globalization Leveraging the partnerships of other stakeholders... Saudi Arabia The President, who is originally from Singapore but who had a global trotting career path through Canada, United States and back to Singapore before taking the President’s position in Saudi Arabia The renowned international business school INSEAD, has campuses, in France, Singapore, Israel, and Abu Dhabi Students study on several campuses (Wildavsky, 2010) Finally, there are some pragmatic... company was doing in- house and reintegrating their work back into the original company’s operation By China joining the WTO, China ultimately became a challenge to the whole world with its mass of low-wage unskilled and semi-skilled workers Other poor countries like Malaysia, Thailand, Ireland, Mexico, Brazil and Vietnam have to compete for 6 New Knowledge in a New Era of Globalization better tax breaks,... International Networked Teams for Engineering Design (INTEnD) program involves Michigan State University (MSU) and the University of Texas Pan American is meeting the challenges of globalization by offering collaborative, multidisciplinary, and innovative engineering education programs The research and education program was started in 1998 by a multidisciplinary team of educators from MSU and other engineering... Wisconsin- Madison has a certificate in International Engineering (Mariasingan et al, 2007) All of these changes in engineering education show that the faculty and administration in these universities are at the forefront of educating a global workforce Brigham Young University received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to implement a global virtual team’s course taught concurrently with an international... pragmatic strategies to facilitate, encourage, and sustain globaloriented teaching in higher education—approaches that are adaptable to a variety of disciplines and institutional contexts These include: • Increasing the size of the international student body population • Increasing the size of foreign-born faculty members • Developing or expanding partnerships with international institutions • Providing for... and other factors to encourage offshoring to their shores Another problem that exists is workplace standards, lax labor laws, and low wages just to name a few In talking about offshoring, Freidman tells a story about a friend of his who is an American-trained Chinese manager of a fuel pump factory in Beijing Shortly after China joined the WTO, his friend posted the following proverb from Africa translated... theoretical knowledge with a curriculum typically organized around disciplines such as accounting, marketing, operations management and organizational theory for business schools, while for IS schools typical disciplines are: data and information management, systems analysis and design, project management, and IS strategy, management, and acquisition (Topi, 2010) In this chapter we argue for adding a relatively... 4 New Knowledge in a New Era of Globalization • Offshoring: Running with Gazelles, Eating with Lions • Supply Chaining Eating Sushi in Arkansas • Insourcing What the Guys in the Funny Brown Shorts Are Really Doing • In- Forming Google, Yahoo, MSN Web Search • The Steroids—Digital, Mobile, Personal and Virtual The first force to flatten the world was on 11/9/89, the fall of the Berlin Wall Freidman... Therefore, globalization of education must be a necessary part of higher education Business and engineering schools alike in the United States have added or are considering globalization as an important addition to a student’s higher education package Globalization is already an important part of European education Globalization is not a passing phenomenon It is here to stay Universities and colleges throughout . Schuerfeld, Ahmed Abdalla Mohamedani, Giuseppe Lattanzio, Sandra Rosini and Vincenzo Stracca Pansa Part 3 Globalization and Space 267 Chapter 14 Globalization in the Brazilian Amazon Region:. Bernur A ıkgöz Ersoy Chapter 13 Building Sustainable Capacity for Disease Diagnosis in Sub-Saharan Africa: Case Studies of Cooperation in Diagnostic Pathology 243 Renato Mariani-Costantini, Khalid. System 73 Mahadevi. S. Banad and Mahadev. Talawar Chapter 6 How to Discover a New World Without Being in Danger of Wreck 97 Miguel González-Carbajal Pascual and Ludmila Martínez Leyva Chapter