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Kashyap, Nishmin – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This is a phenomenological study of ten graduate international students at Chardin University (pseudonym). Through 30 in-depth interviews, multiple social contacts, and group and member checking sessions, stories emerged that highlight the social experiences of these graduate international students through their transient lives. Theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Private Colleges, Research Universities
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Kashyap, Nishmin Balsara – College and University, 2011
This is a phenomenological study of ten graduate international students at Chardin University (pseudonym). Through 30 in-depth interviews, multiple social contacts, and group and member checking sessions, stories emerged that highlight the social experiences of these graduate international students through their transient lives. For the purposes…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Socialization, Research Universities, Social Experience
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Sawir, Erlenawati; Marginson, Simon; Deumert, Ana; Nyland, Chris; Ramia, Gaby – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2008
In a study of international student security, consisting of 200 intensive interviews with students, resident onshore in Australia, it was found that two thirds of the group had experienced problems of loneliness and/or isolation, especially in the early months. According to Weiss, students experience both "personal loneliness" because of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Coping, Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns
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Spurling, Nicola – LATISS: Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences, 2007
This paper presents an empirical study of the social situations of first year Chinese students in one UK University. The study used in-depth interviews and constructivist grounded theory to investigate the social situations of 19 foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate students in 2004-05. This exploratory approach was informed by Siu's…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Constructivism (Learning), Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries