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A Transformative Framework to Investigate the Influences of Chineseness on Chinese International Students' Learning Experiences on U.S. College Campuses
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Guo, Wenjin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study applied a mixed-methods, social-justice approach to explore how Chinese international students interpret their success and/or challenges influenced by their Chinese forms of community cultural wealth in their academic learning at a predominately White Catholic university in the Midwest of the United States for over one year. I adopted a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Asians, Asian Culture
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation through Shifts in the Mainstream
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Voyer, Andrea; Kline, Zachary D.; Danton, Madison; Volkova, Tatiana – Sociological Methods & Research, 2022
This article presents a computational approach to examining immigrant incorporation through shifts in the social "mainstream." Analyzing a historical corpus of American etiquette books, texts from 1922-2017 describing social norms, we identify mainstream shifts related to long-standing groups which once were and may currently still be…
Descriptors: Immigrants, United States History, Discourse Analysis, Acculturation
Revisiting Religious Higher Education in China: Comparative Analysis of Furen University Narratives
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Zhao, Zhenzhou; Sun, Yi – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2020
Established in the 1920s, Furen University was a private Catholic university in China. Just as in the case of other Christian colleges in modern China, Furen was taken over by the communist government soon after the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 and incorporated into the new state-controlled higher education system.…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Private Colleges
Religion as an External Determinant of the Education Systems of the BRICS Member Countries: A Comparative Study
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de Kock, Fleetwood Jerry; de Beer, Zacharias Louw; Wolhuter, Charl C.; Potgieter, Ferdinand Jacobus – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2022
Various internal and external determinants influence an education system. External determinants include language, demographics, geography, technology, politics, and financial and economic trends. Religion is also one of these external determinants that can influence an education system, as well as the education systems of the. The BRICS member…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
Churches and Education. Studies in Church History. Volume 55
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Ludlow, Morwenna, Ed.; Methuen, Charlotte, Ed.; Spicer, Andrew, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2019
This volume brings together the work of a wide range of scholars to explore the long and complex history of the relationships between churches and education. Christianity has always been involved in education, from the very earliest teaching of those about to be baptised, to present-day churches' involvement in schools and higher education.…
Descriptors: Churches, State Church Separation, Christianity, Educational History
Linguistic Vitality, Endangerment, and Resilience
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Roche, Gerald – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2017
The concept of "resilience" originated in both ecology and psychology, and refers to the propensity of a system or entity to "bounce back" from a disturbance. Recently, the concept has found increasing application within linguistics, particularly the study of endangered languages. In this context, resilience is used to describe…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition, Linguistics