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Westernization or Internationalization? Academic Expectations and Challenges Faced by International Postgraduates in China
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Bin Zhao; Shuiyun Liu – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2024
China has become a main host country for international students, but its international programmes for higher education still need improvement. This study aimed to examine the academic challenges that international postgraduates in China face based on Luc Boltanski's idea of ordinary critique. A qualitative research approach was adopted, and data…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Doctoral Students, Student Attitudes
'Ways of Doing' and 'Ways of Being': Cultivating Cosmopolitanism in Situ at a Transnational Education Institution
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Jingran Yu – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
This article explores students' acquisition of cosmopolitanism through transnational education (TNE). It adopts a critical approach to educational cosmopolitanism, distinguishing 'ways of being' at the dispositional level and 'ways of doing' at the practice level, to unfold the contingency and multiplicity of cosmopolitanism as well as the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, International Education, International Cooperation, Decision Making