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New Book – New Frontiers for College Education: International Perspectives

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New Frontiers for College Education: International Perspectives
Edited by Jim Gallacher and Fiona Reeve

New Frontiers for College Education: International Perspectives, Edited by Jim Gallacher and Fiona Reeve. This new book examines how colleges around the world are responding to key challenges, including the rise of mass higher education and preparing vocational learners for the changing nature of work.

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Negotiating Professional Identities in a Liberalized Sub-Saharan African Economy: The Case of University of Zambia Faculty

This dissertation examines the development of professional identity among faculty members at the University of Zambia (UNZA), at several epochs in the institution鈥檚 history. The study explores how faculty identities emerged, shifted and were reconfigured in response to the shifts鈥

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Intercultural Competence Development in US Undergraduates: A Comparison of Three Study Abroad Program Models in Spain

In study abroad it is generally assumed that students will develop intercultural competencies (ICC) in the affective, cognitive, and behavioral domains. These sojourns occur in increasingly varied program types as universities seek to expand opportunities to diverse student types. With鈥

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An exploration of Chinese students鈥 learning experiences in China-Australia ‘2+2’ articualtion programmes: In between two systems

Research has broadly explored the topics of transnational higher education (TNHE) and the forms of TNHE (e.g. articulation programmes) in the Chinese context from many perspectives, such as developmental history, policy, and quality assurance. Enrolling in an articulation programme, for鈥

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The Politics of Competencies: policy trajectory study of the re-contextualisation of the 2009-2011 competency-based curricular reform of Mexican primary education

In this thesis I study the politics of the re-contextualisation of the Mexican 2009-2011 competency-based curricular reform to primary education, aiming to understand the processes of “complex contestation, resistances and refractions at play between policy text production and practice” (Rizvi鈥

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The Role of Teachers’ Beliefs in the Implementation of Learner-centred Education in India

International education has witnessed a widespread push for promoting Western-originating ‘learner-centred’ approaches, often without adequately considering the challenges involved in crossing cultures. Like many developing countries, India for decades has been attempting a paradigm shift from predominantly ‘teacher-centred’ to more鈥

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Supporting intercultural collaborations in blended and online settings: A randomised control trial of internationalised academic content

There is a rising trend of international students studying at universities worldwide, with a substantial percentage enrolling each term in blended and online modules. This means that assignments such as online group work create unique spaces for intercultural learning and鈥

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Faith, identity, status and schooling: An ethnography of educational decision-making in northern Senegal

This thesis draws upon fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork to analyse the ways in which parents and pupils navigate between secular state and Islamic schools in northern Senegal. Preference for Qur’anic schools among relatively well-off and high-status families counters several鈥

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Vocational Education and Training Teacher Identity in the Context of Reform in Hong Kong: A multi-case study

This dissertation examines how the professional and personal identities of vocational educational training (VET) teachers in Hong Kong have been influenced by changes to their work associated with the New Senior Secondary (NSS) reform. Teacher identity is dynamic and shaped鈥

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