Holliman, Andrew;
Bastaman, Amanda;
Wu, Hiu Sum;
Xu, Shuyue;
Waldeck, Daniel;
(2022)
Exploring the experiences of international Chinese students at a UK university: A qualitative inquiry.
Multicultural Learning and Teaching
10.1515/mlt-2022-0020.
(In press).
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Abstract
The largest group of international students pursuing their overseas higher education in the UK come from China; and yet, little qualitative research has explored the experiences of Chinese students who have recently made this transition, with even less focusing on the experiences of both undergraduate and postgraduate students. The present article set out to explore the unique perspective of a small sample of first-year undergraduate and first-year postgraduate students (N = 18), on their experience of transitioning to a higher education institution in the UK. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, and thematic analysis was used to explore their experiences in greater depth. Two superordinate themes are reported here: “Education Dialogues and Scholarship” and “Intercultural Relations and Notions of Difference.” The findings suggest that despite advances in institutional practices to support international students’ transition to higher education in the UK, more work needs to be done to redress the sociocultural (and other) challenges that continue to exist for international Chinese students.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Exploring the experiences of international Chinese students at a UK university: A qualitative inquiry |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1515/mlt-2022-0020 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1515/mlt-2022-0020 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | China; higher education; international; thematic analysis; university |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Psychology and Human Development |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10161471 |
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