- Title
- Metaphor analysis of international doctoral students' learning experience - A case study of Chinese doctoral students in Australia
- Creator
- Xu, Xu; Hing, Wa Sit; Shen, Chen
- Relation
- Learning Environment and Design. Current and Future Impacts p. 49-66
- Relation
- Educational Communications and Technology Yearbook
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8167-0_4
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Against the tidal wave of internationalization of higher education is the change of learning environment once student sojourners begin their studies abroad. International doctoral students’ perceptions of their lived experiences of learning overseas have attracted wide attention. Yet a few studies have addressed students’ assessment of doctoral education via a metaphor analysis. Shedding light on the experiences of Chinese doctoral students in Australia as a case, interviews were conducted in Australian universities. Through metaphor elicitation, their doctoral education experiences within the context of the institutional and academic learning environment were described and discussed. The results showed that the conceptualization of the experience resided in the intersection of two pairs of dichotomies: (1) outcome orientation (goals accomplishment) versus process orientation (experiential exploration) and (2) internal factors (educational efforts and cross-cultural adaptation) versus external factors (learning environment and educational change). This study bears wide implications for international Chinese PhD students registered around the globe.
- Subject
- overseas learners; learning environment/context; learning analyticst; internationalization of doctoral education; metaphor analysist; the role of educators
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1442747
- Identifier
- uon:41783
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789811581670
- Language
- eng
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