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Cui, Le – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
This article explores how a gay academic living with HIV negotiated heteronormativity in a Chinese university. It presents the participant's professional life in a double closet, where he adopted various strategies to cautiously conceal both his gay identity and HIV-positive status. Such experience is used to unpack the operation of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Homosexuality, Foreign Countries
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Zhu, Haiping; O'Sullivan, Helen – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2022
China is the leading source of international students for the UK. However, there are many differences between Chinese and UK classroom culture; for example, Chinese students may do well in tests and assignments in class, but they are very quiet and are often reluctant to speak up within the classroom environment. This silent behaviour can be a…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Asians, Cultural Differences, Educational Experience
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Zhan, Zhan; Tan, Tih Koon – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2022
Different from the objective risk of self-financed study-abroad behavior, the perceived risk thereof is the basis for individuals to assess the educational consumption risk from their own points of view. The perceived risk in self-financed study-abroad behavior falls into seven aspects, i.e., economic risk, functional risk, completion risk,…
Descriptors: Risk, Risk Assessment, Study Abroad, Safety
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Liu, Wei – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Anyone hoping to understand China and Chinese people's behaviour in the present day must examine China's long history and culture, as these often have crystallized into current behavioural patterns. This paper discusses one important push-out factor for Chinese students' outbound mobility, and an element that is ignored in many futuristic…
Descriptors: Chinese, Asians, Foreign Countries, Student Mobility
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Romanova, Irina M.; Noskova, Elena V.; Trotsenko, Anastasiya N. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Development of academic mobility of students from different countries requires evaluating the influence of their cultural traits on the behavior on the educational products market. The subject of present study is the development of methodic approach towards evaluating the cross-cultural traits influence on students' behavior on the higher…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Higher Education, Cultural Traits, Behavior Patterns
Beechy, Atlee; Beechy, Winifred – 1981
A description is given of the ten-week Goshen College Study-Service Trimester experiment at Sichuan Teachers College in China. Goshen College emphasizes international education and has a requirement in this area for all of its graduates. The trimester exchange program was developed to promote international education and world peace and prepare…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cultural Differences, Cultural Exchange, Exchange Programs