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Arulmani, Gideon – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2019
This paper uses the cultural preparedness approach to analyse the interface between the aspirations of immigrants and their engagement with systems of the host country. It draws upon interviews with 84 immigrants from 35 developing countries living in 9 high-income countries. Based upon Edmund Husserl's hermeneutical phenomenology, two studies are…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Immigrants, Phenomenology, Acculturation
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Halai, Anjum; Durrani, Naureen – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
This paper studies an under-researched area--teachers' role in peacebuilding in conflict-affected contexts--through exploring teacher agency for social cohesion in Pakistan. Insights are sought into teachers' perspectives on the major drivers of conflict in society and the role of education and teachers in social cohesion and mitigating inequities…
Descriptors: Peace, Teacher Role, Observation, Focus Groups
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Tran, Ly Thi; Vu, Thao Thi Phuong – Intercultural Education, 2017
Despite the significant body of literature on international students' intercultural development, the core issue of how they see their own responsibility in transnational intercultural spaces is largely neglected. This paper addresses this paucity by examining the intercultural responsibility perceived by international students. It is based on a…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Cultural Awareness, Student Responsibility, Student Attitudes
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Ding, Yueya – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2015
Drawing on life history research, this study critically examines the transnational experiences of return Chinese immigrants from Canada in Beijing. Through the accounts of their experiences, it explores different integration and reintegration strategies, including self-adjustment, lifelong learning and flexible citizenship. A native concept of…
Descriptors: Asians, Immigrants, Social Integration, Acculturation
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Parker, Christina – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2016
This qualitative study used classroom observations, teacher and student interviews, and document analysis to examine the degree to which peacebuilding dialogue processes were implemented in 3 elementary school classrooms and how diverse students, particularly newcomer immigrants, experienced these pedagogies. The study critically examines how…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Teaching Methods, Minority Group Students, Immigrants
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Sharpes, Donald K.; Schou, Lotte R. – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
The convergence of Islam and national and cultural identity in Europe, exacerbated by external events like a murder, assassination, riot, embassy bombing or even a satirical cartoon, has the potential for disrupting civic order and eroding movements towards cultural assimilation and national integration. Clearly, fundamentalism in any religion,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Muslims, Islam, Self Concept
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Hou, Junxia; McDowell, Liz – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2014
This article reports some of the findings of a longitudinal ethnographic research study on the intercultural transition experiences of 50 engineering students in a China-U.K. articulation program. It focuses on the interaction between these students and the U.K.-based cohort, mainly home students. The findings indicate that lack of suitable…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Cultural Awareness, Longitudinal Studies, Barriers
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Jones, Veronica – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2017
Islamophobia has become increasingly evident in the sociocultural landscape of the United States. The current political climate which centers on the influx of refugees and concerns of extremists has in effect othered individuals of Arab ancestry as a bounded group. Arab students represent a heterogeneous group of individuals, encompassing a…
Descriptors: Arabs, Self Concept, Disadvantaged, Fear
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Ulriksen, Lars; Madsen, Lene Møller; Holmegaard, Henriette Tolstrup – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
To understand student drop-out from university, research must explore students' first-year experiences and the challenges they encounter. This article analyses the first-year experiences of non-traditional students in Danish science and engineering university programmes. Focusing on identity theory and the framework of integration processes…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, College Freshmen
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Ozfidan, Burhan – English Language Teaching, 2017
Language is a crucial factor for the academic achievement of minority people. Speaking the mother tongue in school increases self-confidence and thinking skills, and conveys freedom of speech. Mother tongue is an inseparable element of his or her culture and that everyone has the right to learn his or her mother tongue. The main objective of this…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Usage, Native Language Instruction, Attendance
Howard, Keith Patrick – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Recreational sport participation has been promoted as a way for college students to connect to the campus community, improve overall physical health, and moderate anxiety and stress. However, limited research has been conducted with racial and ethnic minority students at colleges and universities in the United States to determine if their…
Descriptors: Race, Self Concept, Recreational Activities, Team Sports
Dessus, Jennifer Leigh – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Although there has been an increase in higher education enrollment, at Catholic institutions underrepresented students are graduating at lower rates than White and non-first generation students. The lack of persistence of these underrepresented students leads to an attainment gap wider than that at other private universities. Furthermore, it…
Descriptors: Catholics, Church Related Colleges, Disproportionate Representation, Academic Persistence
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Li, Xuemei – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2015
This qualitative study engaged five international graduate students from four different countries (the U.S., Colombia, Cape Verde Island, and Spain) who were studying at a Chinese university in Shanghai. The researcher investigated their personal and academic lives in China, their interaction with local people and integration into the local…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, International Education, Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency
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Sabaté Dalmau, Maria – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2016
From a critical sociolinguistic perspective, this article investigates the written linguistic practices of 20 labor migrants from heterogeneous backgrounds who organized their life trajectories in an "ethnic" call shop in a marginal neighborhood near Barcelona. This was a late capitalist institution informally providing the undocumented…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Interviews, Urban Areas, Sociolinguistics
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Campbell, Kimeka; Prins, Esther – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2016
Nearly one quarter of international graduate students in the USA and Canada are accompanied by their spouse, typically highly educated, professional women. Because they are not students, accompanying spouses' distinctive needs and experiences are often invisible. This article focuses on an overlooked population of adult learners: accompanying…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Foreign Students, Spouses, Social Integration
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