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...

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.