International Students at University: Understanding the Student Experience
Author:
Harshi Gunawardena, Rachel Wilson
ISBN:
9783034310369
Binding:
Paperback
Year:
2012
Pages:
243
Size:
15 x 21 cm
Weight:
325 grams
Price:
INR
3100.00
Education of international students is central to the aims, orientation and financial viability of many universities. However, the way that culture impacts on the experiences of international students remains largely unexplored. This may be due to two factors: first, much of the previous research treats the entire international cohort as a homogeneous group without investigating the diversity of cultural backgrounds and; second, the research methods used to investigate student ‘experiences’ in universities are dominated by quantitative surveys that leave little room for exploring personal perspectives and new issues. This book higlights the cultural issues that emerge in the experiences of international students. The authors explore the Australian international tertiary education sector and focus on one cultural group. Through a culturally-sensitive theoretical framework, the experiences of students from the Indian subcontinent are given voice. The resulting personal accounts provide a platform upon which more appropriate policy, marketing, pedagogy and future research can develop to provide tertiary systems that are more responsive to the needs of students.
Molly A. Daniels
Molly A. Daniels is the founder-director of a school of writing that has produced over fifteen hundred writers in the Chicago area. She holds a doctorate from the University of Chicago, and is the author of a novel, two novellas, short stories, a book of criticism, and a manual for writers, containing four hundred exercises and lessons. She edits The Clothesline Review, and Father Gander Rhymes and Other Poems. She won the Illinois Arts Council Award for Best Criticism, and Best Fiction.