- Title
- East, West, which is the best? The adjustment of international students to teaching strategies in host universities
- Creator
- Chen, Shen
- Relation
- XIV World Congress of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES): bordering, re-bordering and new possibilities in education and society. Proceedings of the XIV World Congress of Comparative Education Societies (Istanbul, Turkey 14-18 June, 2010)
- Relation
- http://www.wcces.com
- Publisher
- World Council of Comparative Education Societies
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- As a result of economic globalization, the western universities are moving swiftly towards educational internationalization and searching for international markets. At the same time, Chinese universities are opening their doors wider to invite western partners for educational cooperation. The numbers of international students have increased due to cooperative educational programs between the East and the West. However, helping international students make an adjustment to a new learning environment in host countries remains a quandary. This paper reports a comparative study on the impact of teaching strategies on international students’ understanding on the pedagogical differences between home countries and host countries. It was discovered that international students had experienced three stages of attitude change in transition, namely, “rejection, adaption and cohesion” revealing how culturally determined teaching strategies lead international students’ attitude changes in accepting pedagogical differences.
- Subject
- internationalisation; higher education; international students; pedagogical differences; host universities
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/935188
- Identifier
- uon:12000
- Language
- eng
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