A 'roller coaster' experience? An exploration of postgraduate international students' perceptions of teaching, learning and assessment, integration with home students and building a campus community

John, Tomasz (2014) A 'roller coaster' experience? An exploration of postgraduate international students' perceptions of teaching, learning and assessment, integration with home students and building a campus community. PedRIO (5). pp. 18-22. ISSN 2052-5818

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John, Tomasz

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The phenomenon of the internationalisation of higher education brings both opportunities and challenges, as it introduces the possibility of radically different approaches to teaching, learning and assessment for both students and staff. However, the topic tends to be theorised in the literature at the organisational, strategic level and/or to focus on the growing numbers of 'international students‘. There are still few comprehensive investigations of the interactions between international students, staff and home students. The majority of studies are neither supported by stories from the field, nor informed by accounts of the experience of practitioners dealing with students in various multicultural landscapes. There is thus a strong need for more in-depth case studies. As part of a wider study that aims to contribute to the improvement of teaching, learning, assessment and the postgraduate international student experience overall, I will report on PG international students’ views on what internationalization means to them, and how it influences their learning, as well as issues around integration with home students and when building a campus community. The analysis will be based on data collected from four focus group discussions undertaken in an English university and the International Student I-Barometer Survey from the same institution.

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https://www1.plymouth.ac.uk/research/pedrio/Docume...

Date:

1 April 2014