International Students Negotiating Higher Education : Critical perspectives.

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In the current economic climate, more than ever, international students provide an important income to universities. They represent much-needed funds for many institutions, but they also come with their own diverse variety of characteristics and requirements. This insightful book offers a critical s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sovic, Silvia
Otros Autores: Blythman, Margo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Temas:
Foreign study > Great Britain.
College student mobility > Great Britain.
Education, Higher > Great Britain.
Études à l'étranger > Grande-Bretagne.
Étudiants > Mobilité > Grande-Bretagne.
Enseignement supérieur > Grande-Bretagne.
EDUCATION > General.
EDUCATION > Higher.
College student mobility
Education, Higher
Foreign study
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Policy
  • Equals or others? Mobile students in a nationally bordered world / Simon Marginson
  • Whose initiative? International student policy in the UK / Beatrice Merrick
  • An ethical commitment : Responsibility, care and cosmopolitanism in the internationalized university / Kelly Coate and Ganga Rathnayake
  • An international approach to teaching and learning from a UK university management perspective : Implications for international students' experience on campus / Joanna Al-Youssef
  • Inheriting the earth : Competencies and competition within the internationalized curriculum / Elizabeth Grant
  • Part II. Teaching and Learning
  • Classroom encounters : International students' perceptions of tutors in the creative arts / Silvia Sovic
  • The critical meets the cultural : International students' responses to critical, dialogic postgraduate education in a western university / Margaret Kettle and Allan Luke
  • Transformative learning and international students negotiating higher education / Ly Tran
  • Bringing forth the graduate as a global citizen : An exploratory study of masters-level business students in Australia / Michelle C. Barker, Raymond T. Hibbins and Peter Woods
  • Entrepreneurial identities of international students at UK business schools / Yu-Ching Kuo
  • Part III. Language
  • Negotiating writing : Challenges of the first written assignments at a UK university / Carol Bailey
  • Ways with writing : International students' perspectives on responding to academic writing requirements in the UK higher education / Weronika Gôrska
  • Part IV. Home Students Abroad
  • Great expectations : The impact of friendship groups on the intercultural learning of Australian students abroad / Wendy Green
  • 'Going the other way' : The motivations and experiences of UK learners as 'international students' in higher education / Brendan Bartram.

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