Chinese Educational Migration and Student-Teacher Mobilities Experiencing Otherness

by Dervin, Fred

• ISBN13: 9781137492906
• ISBN10: 1137492902
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-05-13
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

China has awakened but is international education ready? Chinese students, teachers and staff are now familiar faces in universities around the world and this original volume examines their multifaceted experiences in Australia, Denmark, France, Japan, the UK and the US. The authors propose case studies that will appeal to an international audience interested in one of the most mobile populations in global Higher Education. By doing so they question some of the assumptions and misleading facts about Chinese students, teachers and staff abroad. This volume will serve both as a solid introduction and as a thorough review for more knowledgeable readers.

Author Biography

Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland and holds several professorships in Canada, Luxembourg and Malaysia. He specializes in intercultural education, the sociology of multiculturalism and student and academic mobility and has published over 20 books.

Table of Contents

PART I: THE EXPERIENCES OF CHINESE STUDENTS ABROAD
1. Negotiating Transnational Life Worlds: Experiences of Chinese Student-Migrants in Australia; Hannah Soong
2. Representing the Chinese Student Abroad: The case of a Concise Chinese-English Dictionary FOR LOVERS (???????); Fred Dervin and Minghui Gao
3. Chinese Students Experiencing Learning French as a Second Language in France: A Case Study of Individual Differences in the Context of Study Abroad; Jinjing Wang and Sophie Bailly
PART II: GOING BACK HOME OR NOT?
3. The Pragmatic Cosmopolitan: The 'Serving China' Discourse, Career Plans, and Cosmopolitan Dispositions of Chinese Students in Japan; Herby Lai
4. A risk perspective on Chinese Student Migration in France; Yong Li
PART III: CHINESE TEACHERS ABROAD: ADAPTING TO OTHER CONTEXTS
5. Discursive Construction of Chinese Language Teacher Identity; Chun Zhang
6. Change in Teaching Beliefs When Teaching Abroad? A Case Study on Confucius Institute Chinese Teachers' Teaching Experience in the US; Lihong Wang
7. Making Chinese Learnable: Strategies for the Retention of Language Learners; Michael Singh and Jinghe Han
8. Conceptions of Language Teaching of Chinese-Born Language Teachers; Michael Joseph Packevicz, Jr.
Afterword: Rethinking the Notion of Chinese Students Abroad: The Need for a New Research Agenda; Xiangyun Du