International students negotiating higher education : critical perspectives / edited by Silvia Sovic and Margo Blythman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sovič, Silvia.

Blythman, Margo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign study--Great Britain.

Foreign study.

College student mobility--Great Britain.

College student mobility.

Education, Higher--Great Britain.

Education, Higher.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

"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 stance on contemporary views of international students and challenges the way those involved address the important issues at hand. To do this, the authors focus specifically on giving voice to the student experience. In particular, the authors show how international student experience can be a ready asset from which to glean valuable information, particularly in relation to teaching and learning, academic support and the formal and informal curriculum. In this way, the issues affecting international students can be seen as part of the larger set of difficulties that face all students at university today.Integrating contributions from a academics and student voices from a range of backgrounds issues raised include: Academic Writing for International StudentsThe Internationalisation of the Curriculum Identities: The use of stereotypes and auto-stereotypes International Students' Perceptions of Tutors, and The system in reverse, English speaking learners as "international students". This book will be of interest to education management and administrators, higher education professionals, especially those working or training to teach large numbers of international students, to which it offers a unique opportunity to understand better the students' point-of-view. Because of this the book will likely appeal to academics in all English speaking countries that recruit significant numbers of international students, as well as the growing number of European universities which teach in English and those in the Indian sub-continent that send large numbers of international students to the UK, Australia, New Zealand and the US"-- Provided by publisher.

"International students provide an important income to universities, but they also come with their own diverse variety of characteristics and requirements. 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. To do this, the authors focus specifically on giving voice to the student experience. In particular, they show how the international student experience can be a ready asset from which to glean valuable information, particularly in relation to teaching and learning, academic support and the formal and informal curriculum. In this way, the issues affecting international students can be seen as part of the larger set of difficulties that face all students at university today. Integrating contributions from academics and student voices from a range of backgrounds issues raised include: Academic writing for international students The internationalisation of the curriculum-Identities: the use of stereotypes and auto-stereotypes International students' perceptions of tutors, and-The system in reverse, english speaking learners as 'international students'. This book will be of interest to education management and administrators, higher education professionals, especially those working or training to teach large numbers of international students, to which it offers a unique opportunity to understand better the students' point-of-view"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Introduction / Silvia Sovic Sovic, Silvia, Margo Blythman Blythman, Margo 1

Part I Policy 7

2 Equals or others? Mobile students in a nationally bordered world / Simon Marginson Marginson, Simon 9

3 Whose initiative? International student policy in the UK / Beatrice Merrick Merrick, Beatrice 28

4 An ethical commitment: responsibility, care and cosmopolitanism in the internationalized university / Kelly Coate Coate, Kelly, Ganga Rathnayake Rathnayake, Ganga 39

5 An international approach to teaching and learning from a UK university management perspective: implications for international students' experience on campus / Joanna Al-Youssef Al-Youssef, Joanna 54

6 Inheriting the earth: competencies and competition within the internationalized curriculum / Elizabeth Grant Grant, Elizabeth 67

Part II Teaching and learning 85

7 Classroom encounters: international students' perceptions of tutors in the creative arts / Silvia Sovic Sovic, Silvia 87

8 The critical meets the cultural: international students' responses to critical, dialogic postgraduate education in a western university / Margaret Kettle Kettle, Margaret, Allan Luke Luke, Allan 104

9 Transformative learning and international students negotiating higher education / Ly Tran Tran, Ly 124

10 Bringing forth the graduate as a global citizen: an exploratory study of masters-level business students in Australia / Michelle C. Barker Barker, Michelle C., Raymond T. Hibbins Hibbins, Raymond T., Peter Woods Woods, Peter 142

11 Entrepreneurial identities of international students at UK business schools / Yu-Ching Kuo Kuo, Yu-Ching 155

Part III Language 171

12 Negotiating writing: challenges of the first written assignment at a UK university / Carol Bailey Bailey, Carol 173

13 Ways with writing: international students' perspectives on responding to academic writing requirements in the UK higher education / Weronika Górska Górska, Weronika 190

Part IV Home students abroad 209

14 Great expectations: the impact of friendship groups on the intercultural learning of Australian students abroad / Wendy Green Green, Wendy 211

15 'Going the other way': the motivations and experiences of UK learners as 'international students' in higher education / Brendan Bartram Bartram, Brendan 226.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415614696

0415614694

9780415614702

0415614708

9780203817483

0203817486

OCLC:

703208989