An Autoethnography of an International Doctoral Student's Multidimensional Identity Construction

Autor/in	Xu, Xing
Titel	An Autoethnography of an International Doctoral Student's Multidimensional Identity Construction
Quelle	In: Australian Educational Researcher, 50 (2023) 5, S.1423-1437 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Xu, Xing)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0311-6999
DOI	10.1007/s13384-022-00557-w
Schlagwörter	Foreign Students; Ethnography; Doctoral Students; Constructivism (Learning); Student Attitudes; Asians; Foreign Countries; Self Concept; Diaries; Educational Experience; Study Abroad; Gender Differences; Professional Identity; Security (Psychology); China; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnografie; Doctoral studies; Doctorate studies; Student; Students; Doctoral candidate; Doktorandenprogramm; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Doktorand; Doktorandin; Schülerverhalten; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Ausland; Selbstkonzept; Diary; Tagebuch; Bildungserfahrung; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Geschlechterkonflikt; Security; Psychology; Sicherheit; Australien
Abstract	There is a scarcity of scholarship that sheds light on international doctoral students' identity construction in quotidian encounters beyond the formal curriculum. In this autoethnographic study, based on my diary entries, via a socio-constructivist lens, I teased out my multidimensional identity construction by referring to situations, activities and relations embedded in daily experiences during my overseas study sojourn. My autoethnography reveals that how I make sense of my becoming and being as a Chinese sojourning in Australia for doctoral education transcends the experientiality of doing research alone, but incorporates gendered, sociocultural and professional facets within my past-present-future life trajectory. As I navigated these encounters, strategically mobilising my agency and utilising structural contexts towards the aim of achieving ontological security, I engaged in negotiating a transformative identity. The research calls for more studies in the future that explore the complexities and nuances of international doctoral students' identity construction in quotidian realities. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01