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Mobility, education and employment amongst South Asian international students in the UK
01 Aug 2017-
TL;DR: This article investigated the experiences of South Asian international students at the nexus of mobility, education, and employment in the UK and used a qualitative led, mixed method approach in addressing this gap.
Abstract: This study investigates the experiences of South Asian international students at the nexus of mobility, education, and employment in the UK. The study adopts Bourdieu’s theoretical lens to explore how individual students understand, seek, and achieve advantages through participation in education, the labour market, and wider society.
Despite the significant numbers of South Asian international students in the UK, we know little about their specific experiences. This study used a qualitative led, mixed method approach in addressing this gap and researched the experiences of students from South Asia enrolled at nine post-1992 universities in London. After an initial, exploratory online survey of 148 students, 51 in-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with students on campus.
The survey and interviews highlight the diversity of backgrounds and experiences of South Asian students and their varied trajectories. The analysis uses a four-part typology to make sense of this diversity: Highflyers, Realists, Credentialists, and Strugglers possess, develop, and mobilise varied combinations of economic, social, and cultural capital. The research highlights how student mobility is a family project dependent on the resources and emotional investment of relatives. Much of the literature emphasises the challenges faced by international students, but despite the reality of these difficulties and their varied prospects, most participants in this study are broadly satisfied with their decision to come to the UK and confident that it will provide them with a competitive edge in their future career.
Students’ optimism is rooted in their experiences beyond the classroom. In particular, many are inspired by the adventure of moving abroad and the opportunities for personal development and the freedom it affords. The resulting narratives of self are seen as important, valuable assets when students return home and embark on careers.
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: In the context of increasing academic interest in the internationalization of education and the international mobility of university students, this paper drew on findings of a recent research project examining students from the UK as they seek higher education overseas before entering the labour market.
Abstract: In the context of increasing academic interest in the internationalization of education and the international mobility of university students, this article draws on findings of a recent research project examining students from the UK as they seek higher education overseas before entering the labour market. The discussion is framed around four key themes (the importance of `second chances'; `global circuits of higher education'; `experiences of travel' and `labour market outcomes'), which address the motivations and experiences of 85 individuals who are seriously considering or have recently obtained an international degree.
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TL;DR: In this paper, international students negotiating higher education: critical perspectives, edited by Silvia Sovic and Margo Blythman, Abingdon, 2013, 243 pp., £90 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-61469-6; £2...
Abstract: International students negotiating higher education: critical perspectives, edited by Silvia Sovic and Margo Blythman, Abingdon, Routledge, 2013, 243 pp., £90 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-61469-6; £2...
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Dissertation•
01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: The authors investigate how cultural factors affect Korean students' academic progress and social adaptation, and to what extent misconceptions or stereotypes about Asian learners can be justified, in the context of British higher education.
Abstract: This thesis aims to determine the language and cultural issues perceived as important by Korean students in the context of British higher education. Looking into Korean students' perceived expectations of and goals for overseas study in the UK, it aims to investigate how far cultural factors affect Korean students' academic progress and social adaptation, and to what extent misconceptions or stereotypes about Asian learners can be justified.
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"Mobility, education and employment ..." refers background or methods in this paper
...- (Bourdieu, 1986) Bourdieu suggests that we live in a continually synchronised field in which capitals interplay with one another persistently, transforming others, as well as being transformed by them....
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...- (Schuller, 2001 cited in Rounsaville, 2011:110) Culture capital comes in embodied (familiarity with the dominant culture, taste, linguistic competence, knowledge, and dispositions), objectified (Possession of cultural goods and objects), and institutionalised forms (Certificates and Credentials) (Bourdieu, 1986)....
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...In this direction, scholars have sought to conceptualise advantages of cross-border educational mobility symbolised in types of capital; cultural, social and economic capitals (Bourdieu, 1986)....
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...-(Bourdieu, 1986:242) 38 These types of capital, together, produce an analytical framework, which shows the actual transmission of cultural values, and attributes from parents to their children, which help them acquire and sustain their class privileges....
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...…at the cost of a more or less great effort of transformation, which is needed to produce the type of power efficiency in the field in question” - (Bourdieu, 1986:250) Culture capital, for example, could be converted into a source of income in the form of credentials, linguistic competence, or…...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors position mixed methods research (mixed research is a synonym) as the natural complement to traditional qualitative and quantitative research, and present pragmatism as offering an attractive philosophical partner for mixed method research.
Abstract: The purposes of this article are to position mixed methods research (mixed research is a synonym) as the natural complement to traditional qualitative and quantitative research, to present pragmatism as offering an attractive philosophical partner for mixed methods research, and to provide a framework for designing and conducting mixed methods research. In doing this, we briefly review the paradigm “wars” and incompatibility thesis, we show some commonalities between quantitative and qualitative research, we explain the tenets of pragmatism, we explain the fundamental principle of mixed research and how to apply it, we provide specific sets of designs for the two major types of mixed methods research (mixed-model designs and mixed-method designs), and, finally, we explain mixed methods research as following (recursively) an eight-step process. A key feature of mixed methods research is its methodological pluralism or eclecticism, which frequently results in superior research (compared to monomethod resear...
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22 Nov 2017
TL;DR: The Fourth Edition of Andy Field's Discovering Statistics Using SPSS 4th Edition focuses on providing essential content updates, better accessibility to key features, more instructor resources, and more content specific to select disciplines.
Abstract: Unrivalled in the way it makes the teaching of statistics compelling and accessible to even the most anxious of students, the only statistics textbook you and your students will ever need just got better! Andy Field's comprehensive and bestselling Discovering Statistics Using SPSS 4th Edition takes students from introductory statistical concepts through very advanced concepts, incorporating SPSS throughout. The Fourth Edition focuses on providing essential content updates, better accessibility to key features, more instructor resources, and more content specific to select disciplines. It also incorporates powerful new digital developments on the textbook's companion website(visit sagepub.com for more information). WebAssign The Fourth Edition will be available on WebAssign, allowing instructors to produce and manage assignments with their studnets online using a grade book that allows them to track and monitor students' progress. Students receive unlimited practice using a combination of approximately 2000 multiple choice and algorithmic questions. WebAssign provided students with instant feedback and links directly to the accompanying eBook section where the concept was covered, allowing students to find the correct solution. SAGE MobileStudy SAGE MobileStudy allows students equipped with smartphones and tablets to access select material, such as Cramming Sam's Study Tips, anywhere they receive mobile service. With QR codes included throughout the text, it's easy for students to get right to the section they need to study, allowing them to continue their study from virtually anywhere, even when they are away from thier printed copy of the text. Click here to preview the MobileStudy site (available late spring 2013). Education and Sport Sciences instructor support materials with enhanced ones for Psychology, Business and Management and the Health sciences make the book even more relevant to a wider range of subjects across the social sciences and where statistics is taught to a cross-disciplinary audience. Major Updates to the 4th Edition Fully compatible with recent SPSS releases up to and including version 20.0 Exciting new characters, including statistical cult leader Oditi, who provides students access to interesting and helpful video clips to illustrate statistical and SPSS concepts, and Confusious, who helps students clarify confusing quantitative terminology New discipline specific support matierlas have been added for Education, Sports Sciences, Psychology, Business & Management, and Health Sciences, making the book even more relevant to a wider range of subjects across the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences is taught to an interdisciplinary audience. An enhanced Companion Website (available late spring 2013) offers a wealth of material that can be used in conjunction with the textbook, including: PowerPoints Testbanks Answers to the Smart Alex tasks at the end of each chapter Datafiles for testing problems in SPSS Flashcards of key concepts Self-assessment multiple-choice questions Online videos of key statistical and SPSS procedures
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01 Jan 1970
TL;DR: The Second Edition of Bourdieu's Theory of Symbolic VIOLENCE as discussed by the authors is a collection of essays about the foundation of a theory of symbolic violence and its application in higher education.
Abstract: Preface to the Second Edition - Pierre Bourdieu Foreword - Tom Bottomore PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF A THEORY OF SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE PART TWO: KEEPING ORDER Cultural Capital and Pedagogic Communication The Literate Tradition and Social Conservation Exclusion and Selection Dependence through Independence Appendix The Changing Structure of Higher Education Opportunities Redistribution or Translation?
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"Mobility, education and employment ..." refers background or methods in this paper
...Social reproduction of class advantages (Bourdieu and Passeron, 1990) has been one of the most influential and sustained sociological theories to provide an analytical framework for understanding the role of education in reproducing class inequalities in modern societies....
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...- (Bourdieu and Passeron, 1990:5) Because of the symbolic violence of ‘pedagogic action', it is most likely for the much less privileged to face failure in the education system -apparently due to the lack of resources and characters (e.g. ‘Forms of capitals') that are shared between students with…...
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...…the dominant cultural arbitrary insofar as it is misrecognised in its objective truth as the dominant pedagogic action and the imposition of the dominant culture” - (Bourdieu and Passeron, 1990:22) Sullivan (2002) considers ‘educational standard’ in some sense understood by Bourdieu as arbitrary....
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...…of the structure, the school helps to make and to impose the legitimate exclusions and inclusions which form the basis of the social order” - (Bourdieu and Passeron, 1990: X) He further adds that: “All pedagogic action is objectively symbolic violence [3] in as so far as it is the…...
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...To fill this gap, the chapter offers a theoretical insight, drawing on the work of Bourdieu (1984 and1986), Bourdieu and Passeron (1990), which has been used extensively to explain the ways in which students and their families strategically use international education to reproduce social class…...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a discussion of mixed methods sampling techniques, which combines well-established qualitative and quantitative techniques in creative ways to answer research questions posed by MM research designs.
Abstract: This article presents a discussion of mixed methods (MM) sampling techniques. MM sampling involves combining well-established qualitative and quantitative techniques in creative ways to answer research questions posed by MM research designs. Several issues germane to MM sampling are presented including the differences between probability and purposive sampling and the probability-mixed-purposive sampling continuum. Four MM sampling prototypes are introduced: basic MM sampling strategies, sequential MM sampling, concurrent MM sampling, and multilevel MM sampling. Examples of each of these techniques are given as illustrations of how researchers actually generate MM samples. Finally, eight guidelines for MM sampling are presented.
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