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dc.contributor.authorDoherty, Catherine
dc.contributor.authorSingh, Parlo
dc.contributor.editorPalfreyman, D
dc.contributor.editorMcBride, DL
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:12:22Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:12:22Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.date.modified2008-07-09T02:43:41Z
dc.identifier.isbn9780230542839
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/19665
dc.description.abstractThis chapter re-imagines the mobile 'Asian' student to better articulate with today's context of liquid modernity, its transnational possibilities, and its challenges to notions of fixed cultural identities. The first section critiques arguments that sustain the overly essentialised discourse of 'cultural difference' and offers new ways to understand the international learner's routes. Interview accounts in which international students enrolled in preparatory courses at an Australian university reflect on their educational decisions are analysed to reveal the major investments made by these individuals to gain access to the cultural capital of English language competence and credentials. The analysis also shows how these students can both strategically take up, and disrupt the 'Asian' student position imagined for them. On these grounds, this paper alerts practitioners to the risk of unexamined cultural categories, and argues against 'one-size-fits-all' preparatory programs premised on such constraining models.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillan
dc.publisher.placeNew York
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitleLearning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education
dc.relation.ispartofchapter6
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom114
dc.relation.ispartofpageto132
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode330103
dc.titleMobile Students, Flexible Identities and Liquid Modernity: Disrupting Western Teachers’ Assumptions of ‘The Asian Learner'
dc.typeBook chapter
dc.type.descriptionB1 - Chapters
dc.type.codeB - Book Chapters
gro.date.issued2007
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorSingh, Parlo


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