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Zhuang, Tengteng; Huang, Ya-Ting – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
Against the backdrop of prevalent student attrition in engineering education, this study draws upon Margaret Archer's social realistic theory and offers a close-up analysis of how structural and cultural factors interplay to affect Chinese university engineering faculty members' perceptions of and agency in practicing 'scholarly teaching'.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Scholarship
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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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Zhang, Zhonghua – Frontiers of Education in China, 2007
Pedagogy was initially imported into China, known as "a discipline imported from abroad". The introduction of Pedagogy and its Sinicization almost went hand in hand. The Sinicization has gone through six stages, which showed that more attention should be paid to Chinese educational reality, scientific research methods and the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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
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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
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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)