Finding cultural harmony in interviewing: the wisdom of the middle way

Lee, Myra C. Y.

doi:10.1080/1743727x.2015.1019455

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“…Upon reflection, the reasons for this limitation were not only in the small number of participants in the qualitative study, but also in the approachability of those students who had real problems. Throughout the longitudinal investigation, it was found, time and again, that Chinese students did not articulate their problems to outsiders unless there was established rapport and trust, which is in line with other research evidence (Lee, 2016). A deeply felt need for future studies is to invest more patience, care, and time to approach those who had problematic experiences but did not have effective networks for contact.…”

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Transitions Across Multi-Worlds: Experiences of Chinese International Doctoral Students in STEM Fields

Yang

MacCallum

2021

Journal of Studies in International Education

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In the context of internationalization, this longitudinal qualitative study explores the diverse and challenging experiences of Chinese international doctoral students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The endeavor is to identify factors that facilitate or constrain their successful completion of a PhD abroad over time. By incorporating a three-dimensional multi-world conceptual framework that highlights the relationship between an individual’s research, personal, and social worlds, this study identified six patterns of congruence or difference across the worlds and the corresponding transitions, illustrated with narratives for each pattern. Evidence shows that congruence of an individual’s multi-worlds facilitates, but difference does not necessarily mean constraint when differences are respected, understood, and accommodated. Rather, it is how the transitions are negotiated that is important for the success of transnational and transcultural PhD study. This article contributes a conceptual framework, empirical evidence, and practical implications to the understanding of doctoral study abroad experiences.

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Transitions Across Multi-Worlds: Experiences of Chinese International Doctoral Students in STEM Fields

Yang

MacCallum

2021

Journal of Studies in International Education

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Supporting the career decisions of Australian-based international Chinese doctoral students

Lee

McMahon

Watson

2018

Int J Educ Vocat Guidance

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“Actually, in my culture…” Identity, positioning, and intersubjectivity in cross-cultural interviews

Groves

Hong-lin

Verenikina

2020

ARAL

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The increasing internationalization of education has brought diversification to university student populations. The demographic changes pose great challenges to interview practice as interviews are increasingly occurring in cross-cultural contexts and often involve participants from diverse cultural backgrounds. Recent research has demonstrated that the cultural identity of the interviewer, in particular, the insider or outsider positioning relative to the participants, can impinge upon the quantity and quality of the collected interview data and research outcomes. In this paper, we go beyond this conception of interviewer as either a cultural insider or outsider to examine how multiple identities and positionings are enacted by interviewer and interviewees in order to achieve intersubjectivity, or common ground, in cross-cultural research interviews. The paper contributes to understanding the complexity of cross-cultural interviews, in particular, the impact of positioning processes on the establishment of intersubjectivity and data construction.

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Finding cultural harmony in interviewing: the wisdom of the middle way

Cited by 7 publications

References 53 publications

Transitions Across Multi-Worlds: Experiences of Chinese International Doctoral Students in STEM Fields

Transitions Across Multi-Worlds: Experiences of Chinese International Doctoral Students in STEM Fields

Supporting the career decisions of Australian-based international Chinese doctoral students

“Actually, in my culture…” Identity, positioning, and intersubjectivity in cross-cultural interviews

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