ABSTRACT

Educational Reciprocity and Adaptability challenges the common belief that adapting to new educational settings is the responsibility of international students alone. The book argues that reciprocal responses are required by students and stakeholders alike for an efficient and equitable accommodation of international students in educational settings. Considering how international students negotiate academic challenges and social tensions, it presents both theoretical frameworks and practical tools to work around the tension regarding ethical academic practices.

Crucially exploring these issues across a range of geographical and institutional contexts, and therefore offering critical insights into significant developments in international education across the world, the much-needed research in this edited collection explores:

  • institutional educational policies regarding international students and stakeholders;
  • institutional practices and how they are received;
  • educational adaptability and responses from different stakeholders;
  • the experiences of international students and institutions in negotiating academic and social tensions.

This important contribution to research on the experiences of international students in different geographical and educational contexts is of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of international education, comparative education, sociology of education, youth studies, intercultural studies, migration studies and TESOL.

part |22 pages

Introduction

part I|60 pages

Institutional or broader educational policies and practices vis-à-vis international students and stakeholders

chapter 2|20 pages

Japan’s ‘super global universities’ scheme

Why does the number of ‘foreign’ students matter?

chapter 3|17 pages

Adaptation for national competitive advantage

Policy on international students in the UK

chapter 4|21 pages

Understanding international students’ adaptation motivation and behaviours

Transformative, strategic or conservative?

part II|110 pages

The experiences of international students and institutions in negotiating academic and social tensions

chapter 5|19 pages

Rethinking the value of international student mobility 1

A case study of the experience of Myanmar University students in Hong Kong

chapter 6|20 pages

Navigating through the hostility

International students in Singapore

chapter 8|20 pages

Missing dialogue

Intercultural experiences of Pakistani students in their first-year studies at a Chinese university

chapter 10|12 pages

Do academic and social experiences predict sense of belonging?

Comparing among American and international undergraduate students

part III|62 pages

Educational adaptability – instructional practices and international students