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Xiao Han – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
Foucauldian critical studies are cornucopian in illustrating how policy as discourse normalizes and yields human beings into made subjects in modern societies. However, Foucault's own slide from the 'terminal stage of discourse' pays little attention to the linguistic elements, and thus weakens the theory's potency in explaining the reality.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Administration, School Personnel
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Yuan, Meng; Zeng, Jingjing; Swedlow, Brendon; Qi, Rui – Environmental Education Research, 2022
This article uses Cultural Theory (CT) to complement the Knowledge Deficit Model (KDM) in explaining the environmental concern of Chinese youth. We use a large-scale nationwide sample and adopt multiple multi-level models. We find that the effect of knowledge varies with measurements of knowledge and environmental concern. Youth whose cultural…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Environment, Conservation (Environment)
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Zhang, Xi; Zhang, Yuan; Sun, Yongqiang; Lytras, Miltiadis; Ordonez de Pablos, Patricia; He, Wei – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
Individual creativity (IC) is regarded as the core driver of innovation in higher education. Information and communication technology supports the opportunity to study IC in the online environment. In addition, we believe that the role of transformational leadership (TL) has changed compared to the offline environment. In this research, we employ…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Creativity, Electronic Learning, Social Exchange Theory
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Jokila, Suvi – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2015
The aim of this paper is to explore Appadurai's ideas of global cultural flows in the context of the internationalization of higher education in China. Studies on the internationalization of higher education have increased with the expansion of international activities on university campuses; however, more theoretical analysis in the field is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Global Approach, Developing Nations
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Bista, Krishna, Ed. – IGI Global, 2018
Today, millions of students cross geographic, cultural, and educational borders for their higher education. Trends of international student mobility are significant to universities, educators, business leaders, and governments to increase revenue and campus diversity in the global marketplace. As such, it is vital to examine recent trends in…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Mobility, Foreign Countries, Trend Analysis
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Li, Z. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2013
Much of the research in educational technology with a primary concern over how technology enhances learning has been criticized as privileging the immediate learning settings over the other dimensions of learners' social life and the wider social and economic contexts in which learning and technology are located. The ability to develop a rich…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Educational Theories, Theory Practice Relationship
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Li, He – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2013
Drawing on a qualitative case study and deploying Bourdieu's thinking tools, this article attempts to understand rural students' subjectivities and practices in a Chinese elite university, relating the types and volumes of capital they possessed to the process of position-takings. It contextualises their experiences against the backdrop of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asians, Case Studies, Qualitative Research
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Chan, Wing Kit – Chinese Education and Society, 2012
Since 2003, Chinese university students have faced a dangerous level of unemployment after graduation. Current trends indicate that the situation is likely to remain at this level for some time. This article argues that it is difficult to generalize that there has been a decline in the competitiveness of all university students in the job market…
Descriptors: Graduates, Social Class, Employment Patterns, Human Capital
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Li, Xiaoming; Stanton, Bonita; Wang, Bo; Mao, Rong; Zhang, Hongshia; Qu, Minfeng; Sun, Zhifeng; Wang, Jing – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2008
This pilot study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of cultural adaptation of a social cognitive theory-based HIV risk reduction program delivered among college students in China. Three hundred eighty students from four universities in Nanjing, China, were assigned by classroom to either an intervention group receiving the culturally adapted…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Program Effectiveness, Health Education, Culturally Relevant Education
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory