Description
International Student Education in Tertiary Settings addresses key issues in international student education programme design and implementation. It maps contemporary theories and practices in international students’ transcultural learning and engagement and showcases successful tertiary education programmes for international students in Australia, China, Japan, the USA and the UK.
The book highlights the opportunities for engaging international students that are built into the various programmes, international students’ strategies for coping with various challenges of engagement with their educational programmes, and a range of factors that confound their engagement in academic and intercultural learning. The broad coverage of international education programmes in a variety of geographical, sociocultural and pedagogical settings enables the discussion about the complexity of contemporary international student education, shared challenges and productive ways of engaging international students in transcultural learning and the prospect of sustainable engagement.
The principles and insights into programme design and implementation to engage international students will be useful for researchers and practitioners in international student education, academics tasked with teaching international students in their class, and administrators responsible for managing and providing services to international students.
Table of Contents
1. Mapping the Terrain of International Student Education in Tertiary Settings
Zuocheng Zhang, Trevor Grimshaw and Xingsong Shi
Part 1: Built-In Opportunities in Educational Programmes for Engaging International Students
2. Transforming International Students to Agentive Participants: Chinese Student Engagement in a Community Project Course in Australia
Wei Wang and Hu Liu
3. A New Model of Teacher Education for Small Island States: The Nauru Teacher Education Project
Penelope Serow, Neil Taylor and Terence Sullivan
4. Changing Worldviews: A Comparative Study of Australian And Japanese Preservice Teachers of Early Childhood Education on Study Abroad Programme
Yukiyo Nishida, Margaret Sims and Kyoko Mukugi
5. Positive Interaction in Intercultural Group Work: Resources to Foster Success
Sophie Reissner-Roubicek and Helen Spencer-Oatey
Part 2. International Students’ Strategies for Coping with Challenges of Engagement
6. Conceptualising the Complexity of International Student Engagement: Antecedents, Actions and Accomplishments
Margaret Kettle
7. Language and Intercultural Learning for Future Work: International Students from Asia on a Japanese-Medium Instructed Undergraduate Degree Programme
Gaby Benthien
8. American MBA Programme for Chinese Students: The Interplay Between Programme Offering and Student Sociocultural Learning
Xingsong Shi
Part 3. Factors Confounding International Student Engagement
9. Engaging with International Students on a Business English Programme at a Chinese University: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
Xiaojuan Gu
10. International Nursing Students’ Professional Expertise and Classroom Interaction
Zuocheng Zhang and Jinliang Sun
11. Learning Through, With and Against Contradictions: An Exploration of Chinese Students’ Experiences in Transnational Higher Education Programmes
Kun Dai
