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Navigating the Complex Landscape of Cross-Epistemic Climates: Migrant Chinese Language Teachers' Belief Changes about Knowledge and Learning
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Guo, Jiaqi; Liu, Yongcan – Teacher Development, 2020
This study investigated the impact that the experience of living and teaching in the United Kingdom (UK) had on the belief development of three native Chinese language teachers. The study used a multifaceted approach to analyse the teachers as social beings and their belief development beyond the confines of the classroom. The analysis is based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Native Language, Chinese
Privileged Girls: The Place of Femininity and Femininity in Place
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Fahey, Johannah – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2014
Constructions of femininity and attendant notions of feminism are being produced in different ways in different places around the world. This is a complicated global process that cannot be reduced to analyses that take place in nation states. This paper seeks to respond to and enhance Angela McRobbie's compelling argument about understandings of…
Descriptors: Females, Femininity, Feminism, Global Approach
Chinese Learning Journeys: Chasing the Dream
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Su, Feng, Ed. – Trentham Books Ltd, 2011
Eight students from mainland China chart their learning journeys across national and continental boundaries and socio-cultural contexts. The five women and three men structure their experiences of studying in China and the West around the turning points and life changing choices they made in chasing their dreams. They embody its emergent…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
More from the Horse's Mouth: What Scientists Say about Science as a Social Practice
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Wong, Siu Ling; Hodson, Derek – International Journal of Science Education, 2010
This research study sought to identify prominent features of the nature of science (NOS) embedded in authentic scientific inquiry. Fourteen well-established scientists from different parts of the world, working in experimental or theoretical research, in both traditional fields such as astrophysics and rapidly growing research fields such as…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Scientists, Inquiry, Scientific Research
Chinese Voices: Chinese Learners and Their Experiences of Living and Studying in the United Kingdom
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McMahon, Patrick – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2011
Higher institutions in the United Kingdom (UK) have responded enthusiastically to two prime ministers' "Initiatives for International Education" to promote Britain as a destination for overseas students and international fees from Chinese students now play an important role in the funding of the UK university sector. Yet it is not clear…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Colleges, Cognitive Style, Foreign Students
An Empirical Study of Gender Difference in the Relationship between Self-Concept and Mathematics Achievement
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Wang, Jianjun – Online Submission, 2005
In the western literature, mathematics achievement and its related student self-concept are important education outcomes reciprocally linked and mutually reinforcing. The reciprocal relation model is examined in this study to assess its generalization in a cross-cultural setting. Hong Kong is the site of choice because of its exposure to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement, Gender Differences, Self Concept