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Constructing an Academic Identity in Australia: An Autoethnographic Narrative
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Ai, Bin – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
This paper examines the process of academic identity construction experienced by a Chinese PhD student in an Australian university from 2010 to 2014. The researcher draws on his diaries written in Australia and uses some stories of the relationships with his supervisors and other scholars to unfold the process of his academic identity construction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Personal Narratives, Professional Identity
Learning from China to Internationalise Australian Research Education: Pedagogies of Intellectual Equality and "Optimal Ignorance" of ERA Journal Rankings
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Singh, Michael – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2011
Chinese is now a global language because of the global flow of Chinese people throughout the world. This development provides an important intellectual basis for engaging in the transnational exchange of Chinese theoretical knowledge. The argument developed here is that learning from international (and migrant) research students from China is a…
Descriptors: Research, Foreign Countries, Periodicals, Chinese
Engaging Chinese Ideas through Australian Education Research: Using "Chengyu" to Connect Intellectual Projects across "Peripheral" Nations
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Singh, Michael; Han, Jinghe – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2009
The increasing number of higher degree research students from China in the universities of multicultural Australia as elsewhere has added to the mounting interest in pedagogies of postgraduate supervision. This paper explores the proposition that efforts to articulate Chinese ideas through research in, for and about Australia have to negotiate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Research, Foreign Students
Reshaping Doctoral Education: International Approaches and Pedagogies
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Lee, Alison, Ed.; Danby, Susan, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
The number of doctorates being awarded around the world has almost doubled over the last ten years, propelling it from a small elite enterprise into a large and ever growing international market. Within the context of increasing numbers of doctoral students this book examines the new doctorate environment and the challenges it is starting to face.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Educational Change, Educational Trends
Creating Connections in Teaching and Learning. Research on Teaching and Learning
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Abawi, Lindy, Ed.; Conway, Joan, Ed.; Henderson, Robyn, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
This book explores the wide range of contexts in which research into creating connections in learning and teaching may take place. Creating connections can encompass making links, crossing divides, forming relationships, building frameworks, and generating new knowledge. The cognitive, cultural, social, emotional and/or physical aspects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Early Childhood Education