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Kim, Jongyoung – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2011
This study aims to understand Korean students' motivations for studying in US graduate schools. For this purpose, I conducted in-depth interviews with 50 Korean graduate students who were enrolled in a research-centered US university at the time of the interview. In these interviews, I sought to understand how their motivations are connected not…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Higher Education, Social Class, Global Education
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Helleiner, Jane – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2007
Drawing on interviews with Canadian borderlanders, this article examines childhood experiences with the Canada--US border in the mid-1980s to early 1990s. The retrospective accounts of childhood border experiences demonstrate how childhood was produced and experienced in border crossings and how the production of childhood intersected with a…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Cross Cultural Training, Children, Cultural Pluralism
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Shane, Erik; Maldonado, Nancy L.; Lacey, Candace H.; Thompson, Steve D. – Journal of School Choice, 2008
Some parents choose to send their children to military-style boarding schools for a variety of reasons. Abundant scholarly literature addresses traditional boarding schools. Far less is available addressing the choice of military boarding schools as an educational option. This qualitative study investigates why parents send their sons to military…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, College Preparation, Boarding Schools, Ideology