Transitioning 'in-between' : : Chinese students' navigating experiences in transnational higher education programmes / / Kun Dai.

• Superior document: Spotlight on China ; 7
• VerfasserIn: Dai, Kun, 1987-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Spotlight on China ; 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (205 pages)

This book offers an account of Chinese students' intercultural learning experiences in China-Australia articulation programmes. While these students learn in programmes that Chinese and Australian partner universities collaboratively operate, differences in educational practices still make them encounter barriers. To deal with cross-system differences, some students indicate a positive sense of agency. However, some of them feel disempowered. Notably, many students develop a sense of in-betweenness through learning in such programmes. Based on the investigation, Kun Dai argues that intercultural learning and adjustment in the transnational higher education context may become more complex than other forms of international education.

Table of Contents

Foreword -- Bob Lingard -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Globalisation, Internationalisation, and Transnational Higher Education -- 1 Globalisation and Internationalisation of Higher Education -- 2 Transnational Higher Education -- 3 Transnational Higher Education in China -- 4 Signifijicance of This Study -- 5 Research Design: A Narrative Inquiry -- 6 Conclusion -- 2 Cross-System Transitions across Cultures, Spaces, and Places -- 1 Transitioning and Learning between Cultures -- 2 Cultural Influences Shaping Chinese Learners -- 3 Critical Understandings of CHC and Chinese Students -- 4 Encountering Shocks with Complicated Transitioning Trajectories -- 5 Moving across Diffferent Spaces and Places as Diaspora -- 6 Conclusion -- 3 Start the TAP Journey with Various Certainties and Uncertainties -- 1 Begin the TAP Journey -- 2 Encountering Certainties and Uncertainties -- 3 Conclusion -- 4 A Tortuous Trajectory of Intercultural Learning -- 1 Positively Deal with Changes in Transition -- 2 Being Stressful in Transition -- 3 Shifting between Multiple Identities as Intercultural Learner -- 4 Dependent and Demotivated Followers in China -- 5 Becoming Independent and Motivated Explorer in Australia -- 6 Shaping Diffferent Senses of Belonging as Transnational Diaspora -- 7 Conclusion -- 5 Mapping a Transitioning In-Between Learning Space -- 1 The Conceptualisation of the Transitioning In-Between Space in TAP -- 2 Conclusion -- 6 A Reflexive Journey as an In-Betweener -- 1 Transitioning between Diffferent Schools as a Domestic Diaspora -- 2 Transitioning from China to Australia as a TAP Student -- 3 Shifting between Chinese and Australian Contexts -- 4 Conclusion -- 7 Critical Reflections: Becoming Compatible -- 1 Dynamically Transitioning between Diffferent Systems -- 2 (Re)shaping Identity, Agency, and Belonging in Cross-System Transition -- 3 The Contour of the In-Between Learning Space in TAP -- 4 Intercultural Adjustment as a Way of Transitioning In-Between -- 5 Implications -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- Index.