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This volume presents the diverse approaches and achievements of scholars of Asian cultures and languages in today’s global academy. Recent vast increases in student numbers and ethnic diversity have created pressing challenges for a higher education which engages with contemporary concerns for Asian societies as well as for Asian students involved in Western education. This collection of scholarly analyses demonstrates the centrality and significance of Asian Studies and languages for these globalising academic communities. Significantly, it demands a rethinking of traditional ‘intercultural’ education. In so doing, it brings empirical knowledge as well as multicultural interpretation and multilingual expertise to throw new light on the challenges in higher education today, and to open up new understandings of the demands of the future. - Professor John Makeham Head, Department of Chinese Studies, The Australian National University

social studies --- cultural studies --- pedagogy --- language curriculum --- chinese --- transcultural exchange --- indonesian --- study skills --- plagiarism --- asian languages --- globalisation --- japanese --- australian universities

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This book contains papers arising from a symposium held during a combined meeting of The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), The Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) and The Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa New Zealand at the University of Western Australia from July 5-8th, 2011. It follows on from a recently published Special Issue Supplement of Archives of Oral Biology, Volume 54, December 2009 that contains papers from an International Workshop on Oral Growth and Development held in Liverpool in 2007 and edited by Professor Alan Brook. Together, these two publications provide a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art approaches to study dental development and variation, and open up opportunities for future collaborative research initiatives, a key aim of the International Collaborating Network in Oro-facial Genetics and Development that was founded in Liverpool in 2007. The aim of the symposium held at The University of Western Australia in 2011 was to emphasise some of the powerful new strategies offered by the science of dental anthropology to elucidate the historical lineage of human groups and also to reconstruct environmental factors that have acted on the teeth by analysing dental morphological features. In recent years, migration, as well as increases and decreases in the size of different human populations, have been evident as a result of globalisation. Dental features are also changing associated with changes in nutritional status, different economic or social circumstances, and intermarriage between peoples. Dental anthropological studies have explored these changes with the use of advanced techniques and refined methodologies. New paradigms are also evolving in the field of dental anthropology. When considered together with the recent special issue of Archives of Oral Biology that highlighted the importance of research approaches focused at both the molecular and phenotypic levels, it is clear that we have now reached a very exciting stage in our ability to address key questions and issues about the normal and abnormal development of the dentition, as well as the diseases that commonly affect our teeth and gums.

moca --- non-metric dental characteristics --- eisaku kanazawa --- hiroshi takayama --- mandibular canines --- dentition --- sex determination --- study of twins --- arch size --- main occluding area --- genes for teeth --- maxillary canines --- molar reduction --- dental anthropology --- grant townsend --- primary tooth emergence --- dental crown size --- sexual dimorphism --- tooth wear assessment --- australian aboriginals --- tooth wear analysis

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Universities are social universes in their own right. They are the site of multiple, complex and diverse social relations, identities, communities, knowledges and practices. At the heart of this book are people enrolling at university for the first time and entering into the broad variety of social relations and contexts entailed in their ‘coming to know’ at, of and through university. By recasting ‘the transition to university’ as simultaneously and necessarily entailing a transition of university — indeed universities — and of their many and varied constitutive relations, structures and practices, the contributors to this book seek to reconceptualise the ‘first-year experience’ in terms of multiple and dynamic processes of dialogue and exchange amongst all participants. They interrogate taken-for-granted understandings of what ‘the university’ is, and consider what universities might yet become.

universities in transition --- transformations on campus --- jade mckay --- the university of adelaide student learning hub: a case study --- university transitions in practice: research-learning, fields and their communities of practice --- bradley review --- reconceptualising: transition and universities --- changing social relations in higher education: the first-year international student and the ‘chinese learner’ in australia --- transition to university --- dee michel --- stephen parker --- marcia devlin --- kendra backstrom --- heather brook --- revaluing: ‘non-traditional’ student groups in higher education classism on campus? --- first year experience --- exploring and extending understandings of social class in the contemporary higher education debate --- realising --- relating experiences: regional and remote students in their first year at university --- trevor gale --- of education co-creation --- deane fergie --- knowing students --- pascale quester --- reframing ‘the problem’: students from low socio-economic status backgrounds transitioning