ERIC Number: EJ1394254
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Nov
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-0311-6999
EISSN: EISSN-2210-5328
An Autoethnography of an International Doctoral Student's Multidimensional Identity Construction
Australian Educational Researcher, v50 n5 p1423-1437 Nov 2023
There is a scarcity of scholarship that sheds light on international doctoral students' identity construction in quotidian encounters beyond the formal curriculum. In this autoethnographic study, based on my diary entries, via a socio-constructivist lens, I teased out my multidimensional identity construction by referring to situations, activities and relations embedded in daily experiences during my overseas study sojourn. My autoethnography reveals that how I make sense of my becoming and being as a Chinese sojourning in Australia for doctoral education transcends the experientiality of doing research alone, but incorporates gendered, sociocultural and professional facets within my past-present-future life trajectory. As I navigated these encounters, strategically mobilising my agency and utilising structural contexts towards the aim of achieving ontological security, I engaged in negotiating a transformative identity. The research calls for more studies in the future that explore the complexities and nuances of international doctoral students' identity construction in quotidian realities.
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Ethnography, Doctoral Students, Constructivism (Learning), Student Attitudes, Asians, Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Diaries, Educational Experience, Study Abroad, Gender Differences, Professional Identity, Security (Psychology)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China; Australia
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