The Micro-Politics of Cultural Change: A Chinese Doctoral Student's Learning Journey in Australia

Autor/inn/en	Dai, Kun; Hardy, Ian
Titel	The Micro-Politics of Cultural Change: A Chinese Doctoral Student's Learning Journey in Australia
Quelle	In: Oxford Review of Education, 47 (2021) 2, S.243-259 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Dai, Kun) ORCID (Hardy, Ian)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-4985
DOI	10.1080/03054985.2020.1825369
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Doctoral Students; Asians; Foreign Students; Student Experience; Cultural Differences; Student Adjustment; Transformative Learning; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Doctoral studies; Doctorate studies; Student; Students; Doctoral candidate; Doktorandenprogramm; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Doktorand; Doktorandin; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Studienerfahrung; Kultureller Unterschied; Adjustment; Adaptation; Pädagogische Transformation; Australien
Abstract	Considerable research has investigated Chinese students' intercultural insights in different national contexts, where culture is understood as coterminous with nationality/regionality. However, few have explored the more micro-political aspects of Chinese doctoral students' narrative experiences in national settings, within a more cultural framework. This article seeks to take such an approach through a reflexive narrative account of the first author's experiences as a Chinese doctoral student in Australia. To do so, we draw upon Bhabha's notion of 'in-between space', and work by Gill on intercultural adjustment. We show how the first author's doctoral journey was characterised by a sense of 'in-betweenness' at the micro-political level, including in relation to the cultural boundary crossing associated with having to change fields of study and supervisors. This narrative provides a nuanced account of an international student's experiences and reflects the usefulness of examining the particularity of international doctoral students' learning experiences at a much more fine-grained level, via a more intercultural lens. (As Provided).
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