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Bui, Huyen Minh; Nguyen, Nga Thanh – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2014
Given the impact of globalisation on education, there is an increase in transnational education (TNE) programs in some Asian countries. While much literature in TNE has been on issues of quality assurance, culture and teaching and learning from the providers' perspectives, there is little discussion concerning students' perspectives. This paper…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
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Allen, Kim; Mendick, Heather – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2013
In this article, we explore the question of how celebrity operates in young people's everyday lives, thus contributing to the urgent need to address celebrity's social function. Drawing on data from three studies in England on young people's perspectives on their educational and work futures, we show how celebrity operates as a classed and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Young Adults, Popular Culture
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Salganik, Matthew J.; Watts, Duncan J. – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2008
Individuals influence each others' decisions about cultural products such as songs, books, and movies; but to what extent can the perception of success become a "self-fulfilling prophecy"? We have explored this question experimentally by artificially inverting the true popularity of songs in an online "music market," in which 12,207 participants…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Expectation, Decision Making, Music