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Elliot, Dely Lazarte; Reid, Kate; Baumfield, Vivienne – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
This paper investigates the phenomenological experiences of academic acculturation of selected non-British post-doctoral academics with a retrospective focus on their experiences as PhD students. The participants came from different disciplines and countries of origin to pursue several years of postgraduate research in different British higher…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Postdoctoral Education, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students
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Zagumny, Lisa; Richey, Amanda B. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2013
In this critical discourse analysis of six high-school world geography textbooks, we explore how constructions and representations of North Africa and Southwest Asia have served to reinforce Orientalist discourse in formal curriculum. Visual and written representations in these textbooks were overwhelmingly confounded by a traditional/modern…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Foreign Countries, Muslims, Arabs
Rizvi, Sadaf, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This book provides an original perspective on a range of controversial issues in educational and social research through case studies of multi-disciplinary and mixed-method research involving children, teachers, schools and communities in Europe and the developing world. These case studies from researchers "across continents" and…
Descriptors: Siblings, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Private Schools, Educational Research