Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.5206/cie-eci.v52i1.16673
Jinny Menon
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.5206/cie-eci.v52i1.14851
J. P. Grayson
Globally, over the past few decades, there has been a considerable increase in research on the host country experiences of international students. This is not the case for examinations of university outcomes. As a result, in this article, as a first step, comparisons are made between the academic achievement (GPA), satisfaction, and intent of international students to return to their university as compared to Canadian domestic students at three points in time. First, I show that over several decades there has been little difference in the outcomes of international and domestic students. Second, based on cluster analysis and analyses of covariance, outcomes of contemporary students, as embodied in an “‘adjustment index,”’ are compared and dissected. This procedure shows that while international students suffer from an overall disadvantage in adjustment, there is considerable within group difference. Overall, while there is much room for improvement, the outcomes of international students are hopeful.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.5206/cie-eci.v52i1.13628
Tiare Thiessen, Iwona Abraham, Liza Abraham
In today’s global community, internationalization offers students a crucial advantage by developing their intercultural competence and global citizenship skills. Recent research on Internationalization at Home (IaH) has shown that students can benefit from this approach even without travelling. There has been minimal research conducted on how internationalization affects students’ attitudes towards environmental sustainability, which is another critical theme in our interconnected world. This study evaluates an IaH initiative’s impact on students’ environmental beliefs and values from Alberta, Canada, and Kerala, India. As an IaH initiative, this project engaged students in online collaboration with students from a different world region. Participants worked collaboratively on four tasks and completed an individual reflection assignment. Student and faculty feedback shows that participants improved their knowledge of environmental issues and their commitment to environmental sustainability. Additionally, students also demonstrated stronger intercultural communication and global citizenship skills.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.5206/cie-eci.v52i1.11111
Elena Toukan, S. Niyozov
In this reflective practitioner inquiry, a course instructor and a graduate teaching intern examine the experience of teaching a graduate-level course about cross-cultural perspectives of teacher development. We inquire along three dimensions: assisting doctoral students to become effective and reflective university instructors; responding to course students’ questions and concerns about developing a meaningful academic community in an online learning environment; and conceptual issues of teaching comparative, international, and development education (CIDE) in university settings. Our key argument is that in order to succeed in the above three dimensions, professional reflexivity in CIDE higher education courses can be both conceptually and pedagogically multidirectional, by which experienced and novice instructors learn from each other as much as they learn from their students in an engaging and enriching online environment.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.5206/cie-eci.v52i1.15365
Max Antony-Newman
Over the last three decades many countries made efforts to improve their education systems by increasing students’ academic achievement. A new appreciation of inequality in education among policymakers provided impetus to focus on equity. Parental involvement and engagement in education are vital for students’ academic achievement. If in the context of educational policy, excellence and equity go together, what is the role assigned to parents? A critical policy analysis of seven policy documents from Ontario and Scotland showed that policies acknowledge the crucial role of parents in achieving educational excellence and mention barriers marginalized parents face in engaging with their children’s education. The role of White middle-class nonimmigrant parents in pursuing excellence for their children at the expense of equity for all is neglected. Marginalized parents are seen through the deficit lens. Implications for policy include making parents from dominant groups visible and adopting an asset-based approach to marginalized parents.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.5206/cie-eci.v52i1.14580
Gloria Y Lin
With the rise of British Columbia (BC) kindergarten to Grade 12 (K–12) international education (formerly known as onshore schools) and the BC Offshore School Program, the business of international students is no longer limited to higher education. Working from a decolonizing framework, this study argues that the ever-changing, complex global system of international education in the context of BC’s public education system is a continuing form of imperialism and colonialism working under the guise of neoliberal globalization and the knowledge-based economy. Through a critical review of the current development of BC public schools’ K–12 international education, this study investigates how the shift from public schools dependent on shrinking government expenditure to relying on market-driven funding mechanisms has enormous implications on the way we think about education and the values that underpin educational endeavours.
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Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan is characterised by indicators showing lack of mastering of reading, writing and mathematics literacy skills. To foster effective education systems and provide quality education, experts have encouraged and established various mechanisms of accountability. We conducted participatory workshops with 556 teachers representing 102 primary schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan to investigate their understanding of teachers’ roles and responsibilities in education. Teachers acknowledged their own responsibilities for student learning but also emphasized that improving the quality of education should involve providing good teaching and learning environments, child-centred pedagogy, caring relationships, parental involvement, inclusive communities, and respect for teachers.
{"title":"Teachers’ perspective on accountability: A comparative case study in primary rural schools of Afghanistan and Pakistan","authors":"Trani Jean-Francois, Yin Shuya, Rfat Mustafa, Mckown Mara, Cartmill Mary Kate, Kaplan Ian, Zhu Yiqi, Munib Sohail, Bakhshi Parul","doi":"10.1177/17454999231186878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17454999231186878","url":null,"abstract":"Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan is characterised by indicators showing lack of mastering of reading, writing and mathematics literacy skills. To foster effective education systems and provide quality education, experts have encouraged and established various mechanisms of accountability. We conducted participatory workshops with 556 teachers representing 102 primary schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan to investigate their understanding of teachers’ roles and responsibilities in education. Teachers acknowledged their own responsibilities for student learning but also emphasized that improving the quality of education should involve providing good teaching and learning environments, child-centred pedagogy, caring relationships, parental involvement, inclusive communities, and respect for teachers.","PeriodicalId":45946,"journal":{"name":"Research in Comparative and International Education","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42343853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1177/17454999231185647
R. Nambi, Rovincer Najjuma, Michael Gallagher
This paper examines the everyday enactments of participation of refugee students in Ugandan higher education emerging from a research project (2020–2022). Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action was used to determine how students responded to the dominant languages, further noting the acts of othering that occur throughout this process that impact this participation and inclusion. Data were collected from three public and four private universities beginning in 2020 and ending in 2021 through interviews with refugee students and administrative staff who worked routinely with these students. The findings reveal social spaces within universities that allow for participation that largely sit outside the formal curriculum. These include the networks of support for the refugees themselves, and their engagement with informal activity, such as city walks and galas. However, the catalyst that initiated interaction with these spaces emanated from their aspirations for the future and their sense of communicative capacity in relation to those aspirations. Recommendations include providing explicit communication to point them directly to events, spaces and opportunities that they can exploit to advance their integration process.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-18DOI: 10.1177/17454999231174137
M. M. Roshid, Phan Le Ha
Global higher education, including that of Asia, has been facing many challenges, notably declining government funding and simultaneously increased influences of neoliberalism on its outlook, aspirations, policies and practices. This reality has put the role and purpose of higher education (HE) under testament, particularly in unprecedented crisis-induced situations such as natural catastrophes and pandemics. This article, while focussing on an Asian context, is situated in the larger picture of HE’s responses to crises and what transformations that may be enabled in the process. In unprecedented crisis-induced challenges, how does HE serve the interests of the public and society? Likewise, in this context, how can HE maintain equity and social justice as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda? These very questions are critical for many societies and invite serious scholarly examination. Engaged with the literature on HE as a public/private good, HE and neoliberalism, and HE in times of crisis, this article discusses the case of the University of Dhaka – the leading university in Bangladesh – in its responses to the COVID-19 crisis (2020–2022). We show how HE as a public good is utmost important as governments everywhere are finding ways to incorporate the SDGs into every aspect of their HE systems. We also posit that the COVID-induced transformations of higher education in the case of the University of Dhaka have proved HE as a public good to be a robust and resilient pillar for fulfilling various stakeholders' needs and aspirations. Such transformations have affirmed the values of humanity, access and equity in HE, and these values are here to stay.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-29DOI: 10.1177/17454999231170736
Min Pham, Viet-Nga Nguyen, Hoa Hoang, T. Nguyen, D. Le, J. Barnett
This paper investigates an emerging professional role transformation in Vietnamese universities, whereby English language teaching (ELT) lecturers transform themselves into English medium instruction (EMI) lecturers in a discipline new to them. Through interviews with five ELT/EMI lecturers working in separate universities and different disciplines, the study investigates reasons for their decision to engage in such professional mobility, their role transformation experience, and its implications for educational quality. We argue that participants’ move into EMI was shaped by the strategic imperative for higher education internationalisation, and the mistaken belief that EMI alone can achieve the English language development students require for academic success. It is also argued that the transformation option made available to the participants was not the best use of their skills, and that a profound change of perspective is needed at the institutional level to most effectively use the strengths of ELT lecturers to support educational quality.
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