Intercultural Experience and Identity Narratives of Chinese Doctoral Students in the UK /

Intercultural Experience and Identity Narratives of Chinese Doctoral Students in the UK /

This book examines the identity formation and negotiation of Chinese doctoral students in the UK, and the opportunity for self-transformation this experience offers. As the largest group of international students in the English-speaking world, Mainland Chinese students encounter a range of difficult...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ye, Lily Lei (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective
Subjects:
International education .
Comparative education.
Study skills.
Foreign study.
Educational sociology.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
International and Comparative Education.
Studying abroad.
Sociology of Education.
Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Setting the scene for narratives to follow
  • Chapter 2. The story of researching Chinese international doctoral students
  • Chapter 3. Engaging with the existing stories
  • Chapter 4. Exploring the self through Giddens and Bourdieu
  • Chapter 5. A Dialogue with the past: thinking through life-style choices
  • Chapter 6. Surviving and thriving in a foreign land: keeping the narrative going
  • Chapter 7. Growing and becoming: the expanded self
  • Chapter 8. Bringing the future into the present: thinking through imagined future trajectories.

Similar Items