The internationalization of higher education with Chinese characteristics: Appadurai's ideas explored

Jokila, Suvi

doi:10.1080/02188791.2014.940029

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“…By examining various recent national policies and university strategies, it is easy to conclude that the inward student mobility has been given a special priority in the Chinese context. This reflects the positive attitude of both the Chinese government and HEIs, and contradicts the idea that the emphasis laid on international students is less in China, and the view that international students are less important to Chinese universities, because they are not seen as human resources due to their generally low academic performance (Jokila 2015).…”

Section: Influence and Balance (Set 2 And 3): Sound Development Of Pomentioning

confidence: 92%

Inward international students in China and their contributions to global common goods

Lin

Liu

2020

High Educ

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This study identifies the (global) common goods produced and augmented by inward student mobility and its relevance to national policies and strategies in China by interviewing 27 policy-makers, university leaders, and academics, as well as international students. Most importantly, it develops a new framework for interpreting inward student mobility through the lens of (global) common goods, with benefit, influence, and balance as the three key elements. The findings of this study indicate that inward international students contribute to global common goods in the aspects of cultural diversity, global talents, improved policies, and practices, etc. (benefit). Key policies related to inward international students are generally supportive, and meanwhile compatible with these global common goods to a large extent (influence). Though some problems and tensions are observed in this study, constructive solutions have already been proposed by both the Chinese government and HEIs (balance).

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Section: Influence and Balance (Set 2 And 3): Sound Development Of Pomentioning

confidence: 92%

Inward international students in China and their contributions to global common goods

Lin

Liu

2020

High Educ

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“…), as shown in the Abroad‐–nbound 1a, 2a, 2b, 3a and Abroad–Outbound 3a and 3b of the Typology. The Chinese government's ambitious efforts have been regarded by some as an indication of its ‘catching up’ mentality (Jokila, , p. 128), which on the one hand sees active and eager measures to encourage students and scholars to go abroad to learn from the developed countries and on the other hand strives to reserve certain aspects of the Chinese cultural heritage (Jokila, ).…”

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“…The student outflows from China since the opening‐up policy in the late 1970s can be said to be closely related to the nation's political and economic reasoning, i.e. the catch‐up mentality with an aim of bringing back expertise and knowledge that the country was lacking (Jokila, ; citing Hayhoe 1984). However, in contemporary China, going out of China to pursue higher education or for research experience and cultural exchange for scholars has become an important means to cultivate highly convertible cultural capital and academic capital (Xiang & Shen, ; Leung, ).…”

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Educating China on the move: A typology of contemporary Chinese higher education mobilities

Montgomery

2018

Review of Education

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The landscape of global higher education is changing rapidly in response to and alongside the geopolitical and geosocial global transformations, with China and East Asia becoming key players in higher education. As China's economic power and strategic reach grows against a context of global uncertainty, it has become increasingly important to develop a nuanced understanding of Chinese globalisation, not least for its significance to the balance of power relations within and beyond Asia. Higher education provides a powerful lens through which to see how China is globalising and how this might impact on the world. This is manifested in its many established and newer forms of education mobilities. Recognising the lack of research efforts to systematically understand the complexities of contemporary higher education mobilities across China, this paper proposes a typology through a thematic narrative review of more than 250 peer‐reviewed journal articles, government and media documents. This typology of Chinese higher education mobilities reveals three key insights, including (1) a critique on the ‘mobility imperative’ and the role of the Chinese state, (2) a call for more longitudinal and/or retrospective research to facilitate a relational understanding of the fluid nature of higher education mobilities in China, and (3) a note on the urgency of developing a comprehensive theoretical and conceptual tool kit. This article contributes to an updated understanding of the fluid, multiple and multi‐directional nature of contemporary higher education mobilities of China.

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“…Since the 1980s, the Chinese government has emphasised international student recruitment with a focus on Chinese language and culture (Huang, 2003). Since China joined the World Trade Organisation in 2001, the number of international students has increased, leading to selected Chinese universities initiating English-medium programmes (Jokila, 2015;Ma & Zhao, 2018). In 2010, the Ministry of Education issued National Outline for Medium and Long-Term Education Reform andDevelopment (2010-2020) (MoEC, 2010) and later detailed implementation of the plan to increase international exchanges in the Plan for Study in China (MoEC, 2012).…”

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International Student Recruitment Strategies in Finland and China

Jokila¹

2019

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The recruitment of international students has become a global phenomenon. Prospective candidates planning to study abroad rely on different sources of information in their decision-making processes, provided by different national, institutional and private actors. Thus, more analysis of the mediators facilitating this encounter of recruiters and students is needed. This study analyses how study choices in Finland and China are constructed by analysing the embeddedness of national recruitment strategies in websites, the construction of study choices as capitals and the trust-building devices (dispositifs) employed in the websites. Data consist of textual material from four websites representing educational offerings in Finland and China, targeted for international students searching for information in their study-abroad decision-making. This study puts forward three arguments. First, the analysed websites reflect the national strategies on the recruitment of international students; however, the approaches the websites use vary greatly. Second, websites construct expectations that build on a holistic study-abroad experience. Third, non-governmental websites employ commercially oriented dispositifs to distinguish or affirm choices.

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The internationalization of higher education with Chinese characteristics: Appadurai's ideas explored

Cited by 29 publications

References 31 publications

Inward international students in China and their contributions to global common goods

Inward international students in China and their contributions to global common goods

Educating China on the move: A typology of contemporary Chinese higher education mobilities

International Student Recruitment Strategies in Finland and China

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