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Environmental Concern among Chinese Youth: The Roles of Knowledge and Cultural Bias
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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)
International Student Mobility and Opportunities for Growth in the Global Marketplace. Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design (AETID) Book Series
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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
Global Competition in a "Flat" World: A Foucauldian Analysis of the Neoliberal Mentalities of "2 Million Minutes"
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Linder, Kathryn Elizabeth – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2011
Through an application of Foucauldian theories of power and neoliberalism, this article employs an ascending analysis to identify an embedded neoliberal agenda within the documentary "2 Million Minutes". The author argues that this neoliberal agenda serves to support and maintain notions of international white supremacy as it assumes…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, High School Students, Competition
Representing Divorce, Reforming Interiority: Narratives of Gender, Class and Family in Post-Reform Chinese Literature and Culture
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Xiao, Hui – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This project stands at the juncture of modern Chinese literature, post-socialist studies, cultural history of divorce, and critical studies about global middle-class cultures. Employing analytical tools mainly from literary studies, cultural studies and feminist theories, I examine stories, novels, films and TV dramas about divorce produced…
Descriptors: Divorce, Foreign Countries, Television, Films
Social Dominance Orientation and the Legitimization of Inequality across Cultures.
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Pratto, Felicia; Liu, James H.; Levin, Shana; Sidanius, Jim; Shih, Margaret; Bachrach, Hagit; Hegarty, Peter – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2000
Examined the relationships among group inequality, cultural ideologies, and social dominance orientation (SDO) in Canada, Taiwan, Israel, and China. Survey data indicated that SDO was reliably measurable in these four cultures, with many legitimizing ideologies existing regarding SDO and sexism, SDO and ethnic prejudice, SDO and conservatism, and…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Ethnic Bias, Foreign Countries
Cultural Translation and the Double Movement of Difference in Learning "English as a Second Identity"
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Taylor, Lisa – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2006
This article pursues two main lines of inquiry: How might postcolonial theory, feminist and postcolonial translation studies sharpen our critical understandings of the micro- and geopolitics of English language learning? What kinds of pedagogical practice might such new developments ground in order to foster our learners' critical ways of knowing…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)