Full Description
This book focuses on critical issues and perspectives concerning globally mobile students, aspects that have grown in importance thanks to major geopolitical, economic, and technological changes around the globe (i.e., in and across major origins and destinations of international students).
Over the past few decades, the field of international higher education and scholarship has developed robust areas of research that guide current policy, programs, and pedagogy. However, many of the established narratives and wisdoms that dominate research agendas, scope, and foci have become somewhat ossified and are unable to reflect recent political upheavals and other changes (e.g. the Brexit, Trump era, and Belt and Road Initiative) that have disrupted a number of areas including mobility patterns and recruitment practices, understanding and supporting students, engagement of global mobile students with their local counterparts, and the political economy of international education at large.
By re-assessing established issues and perspectives in light of the emerging global/local situations, the contributing authors - all experts on international education - share insights on policies and practices that can help adapt to emerging challenges and opportunities for institutions, scholars, and other stakeholders in international higher education. Including theoretical, empirical, and practitioner-based methods and perspectives provided by scholars from around the world, the book offers a unique and intriguing resource.
Contents
Part I Rethinking Practice.- 1 Rethinking Education in a Changing World: Emerging Issues and Critical Insights.- 2 Rethinking Education in a Changing World: Emerging Issues and Critical Insights.- 3 Beyond the Curtains- Global Refugee Crisis and Gaps in Graduate Enrollment: Exploring Challenges and Possibilities.- 4 The Accessibility of Global Mobility for Disabled Students.- 5 Rethinking Borders: Mobility Learning Participation in the Anglo-Saxon Model of Higher Education in Albania.- Part II Dimensions for Rethinking.- 6 What Motivates International Students for Higher Education: Insight from an International College in Thailand.- 7 Educational Mobility in the Global South - A Study of African Students in China.- 8 Re-imaging globally mobile Chinese students: Political subjects in the making.- Part III Decentering Mobility: Political Perspectives.- 9 PUENTES Program: An Institutional Response Claiming for Bridges in a Time of Trumpeting Walls.- 10 Opening Doors to Foreign Students: An Insight into History of US Government's Stance on International Students.- 11 International Student Wellbeing and the Influence of Politics.- Part IV Decentering: Diversifying Perspectives for Internationalization.- 12 Repatriation of Kurdish students and adjustment issues.- 13 Go Places: Examining the Academic Returns to Study Abroad.- 14 The Sojourner's Return: Narratives on the Re-entry Experience.- 15 Re-imagining international doctoral students as diasporic academics.- Part IV Rethinking Perspectives to Rethinking Practices.- 16 International Students and their Academic Experiences: Student Satisfaction, Student Success Challenges, and Promising Teaching Practices.- 17 Towards building intercultural competence for Greek and International Erasmus students.- 18 Acculturation and Well-being among International Students: Challenges and Opportunities.- 19 International Students' Sense of Belonging and Connectedness with US Students: A Qualitative Inquiry.
