International Students Negotiating Higher Education (eBook, ePUB)

Critical perspectives
Redaktion: Sovic, Silvia; Blythman, Margo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This insightful book offers a critical stance on contemporary views of international students and challenges the way those involved address the important issues at hand.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136729478
• Artikelnr.: 38271236

Autorenporträt

Silvia Sovic is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and Guest Researcher at the Centre for Learning and Teaching in Art and Design, University of the Arts, London. Margo Blythman is the former Director of Teaching and Learning at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part I Policy 2. Equals or Others? Mobile students in a
nationally bordered world 3. Whose initiative? International student policy
in the UK 4. An ethical commitment: responsibility, care and
cosmopolitanism in the internationalized university 5. An international
approach to teaching and learning from a UK university management
perspective: implications for international students' experience on campus
6. Inheriting the earth: competencies and competition within the
internationalized curriculum? Part II Teaching and Learning 7. Classroom
encounters: international students' perceptions of tutors in the creative
arts 8. The critical meets the cultural: international students' responses
to critical, dialogic postgraduate education in a Western university 9.
Transformative learning and international students negotiating higher
education 10. Bringing forth the graduate as a global citizen: an
exploratory study of masters level business students in Australia 11.
Entrepreneurial identities of international students at UK business schools
Part III Language 12. Negotiating writing: challenges of the first written
assignment at a UK university 13. Ways with writing: international
students' perspectives on responding to academic writing requirements in
the UK higher education Part IV Home Students Abroad 14. Great
expectations: the impact of friendship groups on the intercultural learning
of Australian students abroad 15. 'Going the other way': the motivations
and experiences of UK learners as 'international students' in higher
education