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Sheehan, Helen; Riddle, Stewart – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
This paper examines the utility of Campbell's narrative construction of 'the hero's journey' as a conceptual apparatus to understand how international students from Confucian heritage cultures navigate their experiences in Western schooling systems like Australia. The hero's journey framework was used to investigate the commonalities and…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Secondary Education, Confucianism, Foreign Countries
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Thanh Pham; Lam H. Pham – Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 2021
Students' engagement in academic readings has become a concern in Australian classrooms. There has been a strong call for innovative strategies to better engage students in academic readings and improve their understanding of this area. This study deployed a self-study methodology to examine what was offered by international academics and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Foreign Students, Foreign Workers
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Sheng, Xiaoming – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2020
There is little literature which provides any analysis regarding the relationship between cultural order and home education. Research reported here found that home education has grown steadily in recent decades and that parents' motivation for home education was closely associated with cultural order. It was noticeable that Christian and Confucian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Cultural Influences, Parent Attitudes
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Tan, Charlene – Journal of Moral Education, 2021
Addressing a research gap on the relationship between mindfulness and morality, this paper draws insights from Confucius' notion of "jing." I explain how "jing" essentially refers to maintaining a full, respectful and humanity-centred attention towards others. To illustrate the application of Confucius' conception of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Moral Values, Social Values, Ethics
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Gong, Qian; Dobinson, Toni – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
Maoist policy in China emphasised the peasants and workers. It integrated academic study with productive labour to nurture socialist citizens useful for the nation's modernisation. More recently, China has been described as having a 'neoliberal turn' but many see the situation as more complex than this due to the significant role given to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Neoliberalism
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Katsantonis, Ioannis G. – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2021
Introduction: The prevalence rates of bullying vary significantly across countries and continents. Specifically, UNESCO estimates that the prevalence rates vary from 22.8% (CentralAmerica) to 48.2% (Sub-Saharan Africa). Recently these differences among countries andregions have been attributed to culture- and country-level variables. Thus, the…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Aggression, Student Behavior, Comparative Analysis
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Thanh Pham – Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 2021
To support international students better, Australian institutions have called for the internationalization of the curriculum. Internationalization is defined as the integration of international or inter-cultural dimensions into the teaching, research, and service functions of higher education institutions. However, the process of…
Descriptors: International Education, Asians, Foreign Countries, Stereotypes
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Robertson, Margaret J.; Nguyet Nguyen, Minh – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2021
Since the early 21st century the number of doctoral students leaving their own country to study abroad has risen significantly adding to swelling numbers of domestic students. The process of doctoral studies has been acknowledged as identity transformation, a process of "becoming" for domestic students and international students. What…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs
Boyd, Wendy, Ed.; Garvis, Susanne, Ed. – Springer, 2021
This book provides significant information regarding the policies and provisions for early childhood teacher education programs in universities in fourteen different countries. Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is expanding rapidly across the globe with unprecedented numbers of children attending EC centres, requiring the investment in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Quality, Educational Policy
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Nguyen, Linda; Chester, Andrea; Herbert, Anne; Lugg, Alison – Student Success, 2020
While Vietnamese students continue to enrol in international branch university campuses in Vietnam, little is known about the Vietnamese first year transition into these institutions, especially from a cultural perspective. This article presents the findings of four case studies that explored the face strategies used by Vietnamese undergraduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Freshmen, Vietnamese People, Student Adjustment
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Zhang, Hongzhi; Chan, Philip Wing Keung; God, Yu Tim – Education Sciences, 2021
Despite the rapid increase in international students in the education sector, this area remains an under-researched. In Australia, many schools welcome international learners, but are also aware that the support they can offer cannot fully address the student's needs. Drawing on surveys (n = 51) and focus group interviews (n = 16), this case study…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Asians, Student Needs
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Liu, Laura Blythe; Ye, Juyan – Teacher Development, 2019
Global experiences are a significant form of professional development for teacher education faculty preparing teachers to support twenty-first-century diverse classrooms. This case study examined the international professional development (IPD) experiences of teacher education faculty at a Chinese university as involving personal-professional,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Global Approach, Teacher Educators, Confucianism
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Han, Jinghe; Han, Yu – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
Teachers' cultural backgrounds can result in challenges in establishing positive teacher-student relationships in cross-cultural settings. The context for this study is based on the everyday practice of teachers and students in the classrooms of diverse Australian schools, where issues of cross-cultural teacher-student relationships have been…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences, Teacher Student Relationship
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Teo, Ian; Arkoudis, Sophia – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
Foundations studies programs (FSPs), sometimes termed pathways programs, seek to prepare international students for an undergraduate education. While enrolments in these programs continue to grow in Australia, there has correspondingly been little research exploring how FSP students experience their transition into university life and study. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Transitional Programs, Foreign Countries, Student Experience
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Tam, Maureen – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2017
Ageing and learning are value-laden concepts that are culturally relevant. Culture plays an important role in influencing what people think, resulting in different views and understandings by people from diverse cultural backgrounds. In the literature, there have been research and discussions relating culture with ageing and culture with learning…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Aging (Individuals), Confucianism, Foreign Countries
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