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Taira, Kazufumi – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
The study aims to investigate Okinawan identity development among individuals who grew up in Okinawa and came to Hawai'i to study at a university or community college. The grounded theory approach was used for the qualitative inquiry. Nineteen participants were interviewed about their self-descriptions, spaces where their Okinawan consciousness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Individual Development, College Students
Hofmeyr, Ana Sofia – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
The Top Global University Project, launched in 2014 and scheduled to run until 2023, is the most recent of a succession of internationalisation projects proposed by the Japanese government in an effort to foster global jinzai, i.e. global human resources (GHR), and revitalise the higher education system. Yet, the concept of GHR remains vague and…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Higher Education, Universities, Intercultural Communication
Nam, Benjamin; Jiang, Xiaohua – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
This study adopts a critical phenomenological approach to explore the impacts of COVID-19 on the transnational educational experiences of Chinese college students in short-term academic exchange programmes hosted by universities in the United States. This study uses concepts of cosmopolitan capital and ambiguous loss to interpret the pandemic…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Exchange Programs, Foreign Students, COVID-19
Yang, Peidong – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2022
International student mobility (ISM), defined as the movement of students to pursue tertiary education outside their countries of citizenship, has conventionally been understood in terms of micro social actors' behaviours of cultural capital accumulation and macro-level institutional processes following the logics of neoliberal globalization and…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Study Abroad, Neoliberalism, Knowledge Economy
Robertson, Margaret J.; Nguyet Nguyen, Minh – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2021
Since the early 21st century the number of doctoral students leaving their own country to study abroad has risen significantly adding to swelling numbers of domestic students. The process of doctoral studies has been acknowledged as identity transformation, a process of "becoming" for domestic students and international students. What…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs
Zeivots, Sandris – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2021
Australia has among the highest percentages of international English as an additional language background (EAL) university students worldwide and this is steadily increasing. These students contribute immensely to Australia's and the Asia-Pacific regional economy, research and cultural creativity. Despite this, EAL students face serious academic…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Student Attitudes, Foreign Students, Foreign Countries
Song, Yang – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2020
Based on ethnographic data, the present study examines how being critical has been understood, valued and practiced among students enrolled in international English-as-the-medium-of-instruction (EMI) Master's porgrammes in a top-rated comprehensive university in China. Drawing on the Foucauldian ethico-political axes of self-formation, this…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Language of Instruction, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Soong, Hannah – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2020
Higher education in Asia is massifying at an exceptional pace and scale. In this paper, I ask how practices and discourses which inform the internationalization of Singapore's higher education can provide opportunities for developing cosmopolitan learning that it claims to provide. Cosmopolitan learning is closely related to cross-border student…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Student Mobility, Foreign Countries
Nguyen, Bao Trang Thi; Pennycook, Alastair – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2018
This study examines the language, academic, and socio-cultural concerns of 24 Vietnamese international students (PhD, master's and undergraduate) studying in universities in Sydney, Australia. Alongside the obvious linguistic concerns, the salient issues that emerge from this study draw attention to the struggles these students face to adapt to…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Foreign Countries, Coping, Student Attitudes
Kelly, Alison; Bennett, Dawn; Giridharan, Beena; Rosenwax, Lorna – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2018
The number of female international students is increasing exponentially, and whilst international study may engender many benefits and challenges, little is known about their intentions once they complete their studies. This article reviews the literature on female international students with specific focus on exploring post-study intentions. A…
Descriptors: Intention, Females, Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students