1st Edition
International Students Negotiating Higher Education Critical perspectives
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
Biography
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.
"An excellent resource for higher education personnel and administrators in admissions and student affairs. ... Written by a host of authors including seasoned researchers, experienced professors, and practicing administrators working directly with the international students, the book excels in bringing out authentic voices and immensely useful insights about the current global situation of international students. With the wide range of topics covered and multiple new issues uncovered, the book is rich in information and implications that university and college personnel and administrators can utilize." —Journal of International Students
