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This paper investigates Chinese students’ learning experience in the business Faculty of an Australian university. Chinese students are often characterized as “rote learners” or stereotyped as “reduced Other”. Areas of concern are limited to addressing the differences in learning styles, language, and sociocultural barriers. However, learning occur...
The growth in the number of Chinese students in Western universities has prompted academics to explore different pedagogical practices suitable for diverse classrooms. Some persisting contradictions between Western and Eastern conceptions of education exist in the practices and institutional structures that students encounter daily. Designing appro...
Despite the many critiques of views that categorise and simplify Chinese international students’ use of memorisation as deficient or rote learning, these views persist. Using ethnographic methods to collect data over 18 months, this study identified the key practices employed by students as they negotiated their learning experiences in an Australia...
In Chapter 1, I briefly introduced the complex challenges faced by Chinese business students studying in Australia and the implications of these challenges for teachers and institutions. To explore the challenges faced by Chinese business students studying in Australia, the next two chapters address the literature related to Chinese student learnin...
This chapter presents how a practice-based approach helps in understanding international Chinese business students’ learning in undergraduate studies at an Australian university. It also explores how institutional practices in an Australian university shape Chinese students’ learning. I draw on a practice-based approach to identify how students’ le...
As the largest international student cohort in Western higher education systems (Altbach in JAMA 27:6–8, 2015; Chu in Chinese students won’t stop going West. 2021; Kaiser et al. in Are Western universities doing enough for their Chinese students? 2019; Liu in JAMA 5(3), 2015), Chinese international students are a significant financial resource for...
This book provides a unique perspective on internationalization in higher education, focusing on the experiences of Chinese business students in Australia. It challenges conventional views by investigating the nuances of Chinese students’ learning, rather than just addressing learning style differences and language barriers. The author’s personal e...
A growing concern in studies of internationalisation relates to Chinese students studying in the West. In business studies, Chinese students are the largest cohort of international undergraduates. Areas of concern include differences in learning styles, language and socio-cultural barriers. Institutionally, learning is considered to occur when stud...
