ABSTRACT
International students experience multiple and multi-dimensional educational and life transitions: moving to a new country, moving to a new educational system and moving to higher educational degree programmes. Within these transitions, they experience differences in the social and organisational cultures, languages, and interpersonal expectations, realities and relationships. Their transitions also lead to, and interact with, transitions of professionals, home students and their families.
Multi-dimensional Transitions of International Students to Higher Education provides up-to-date literature, research and theoretical constructs that underpin international students’ transitions to Higher Education. This book will help you to understand the opportunities, issues, social-emotional-psychological dimensions and evidence-based interventions that are vital to support an individual through these educational and life transitions. Split into four sections, topics include:
- Theoretical Underpinning
- Research in Different Contexts
- Impact of Educational Practice and Social Systems
- Interventions and Strategies Used to Enhance International Students’ Affective, Behavioural and Cognitive Transition Experiences
This book is essential reading for professionals, students and policy makers and provides significant research insights to academics and researchers in the area of education, psychology and sociology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|17 pages
Understanding multiple and multi-dimensional transitions of international higher education students
part I|52 pages
Understanding international students' multiple transitions
chapter 2|16 pages
Parallel lives?
chapter 3|16 pages
Need for cognitive closure and acculturation of international students
part II|69 pages
Understanding international students' multiple transitions
chapter 6|15 pages
“It's about your journey, it's not about uni”
chapter 8|17 pages
Cultural and academic adjustment of international students in China
part III|77 pages
Understanding international students' multiple transitions
chapter 9|18 pages
The multicultural experience?
chapter 10|20 pages
Adapting together
chapter 12|18 pages
Adaptive and maladaptive emotions, behaviours and cognitions in the transition to university
part IV|37 pages
Interventions and strategies used to enhance international students' affective, behavioural and cognitive transition experiences
chapter 13|19 pages
Cultivating learning and social interaction in an international classroom through small group work
chapter 14|16 pages
The transition processes of Erasmus students
part V|27 pages
Conclusion