Expectations, Challenges, and Strategies for Developing Global Competence: Experiences of Chinese International Graduate Students in the United States
Global competence is a combination of openness attitudes and mutual understanding skills that facilitate social interaction behaviors among students from different backgrounds (Colvin & Edwards, 2018). Global competence has been promoted as the key to reduce inter-group conflicts and increase st...
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ftcdlib:oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt70b4s81d 2024-09-15T18:37:38+00:00 Expectations, Challenges, and Strategies for Developing Global Competence: Experiences of Chinese International Graduate Students in the United States Zhou, Linli Desjardins, Richard 2022-01-01 application/pdf https://escholarship.org/uc/item/70b4s81d https://escholarship.org/content/qt70b4s81d/qt70b4s81d.pdf en eng eScholarship, University of California qt70b4s81d https://escholarship.org/uc/item/70b4s81d https://escholarship.org/content/qt70b4s81d/qt70b4s81d.pdf public Higher education etd 2022 ftcdlib 2024-06-28T06:28:22Z Global competence is a combination of openness attitudes and mutual understanding skills that facilitate social interaction behaviors among students from different backgrounds (Colvin & Edwards, 2018). Global competence has been promoted as the key to reduce inter-group conflicts and increase student satisfaction, retention, and campus climate at universities. Although global competence has been studied extensively within the US context, there are few studies that focus on international students. As individuals from foreign cultures, international students encounter cultural shocks and challenges. Their cultural negotiation strategies and experiences offer important insights to build global competence for all students in diverse and globalized societies.Drawing from a series of semi-structured in-depth interviews, this dissertation explores the relationship between cultural negotiation and global competence development for twenty-two Chinese International Graduate Students (CIGS) at a major research university in the United States. This study is based on an adapted bi-cultural model (Spitzberg & Changnon, 2009) which outlines individual and institutional factors for career and civic-oriented global competence development. The study contextualizes non-linear processes of how CIGS develop global competence in a negotiation with the multicultural environments provided by the educational programs in the US. The findings suggest that many CIGS’ diverse career and civic expectations are related to their learning-about or learning-with approaches to global learning (De Wit et al., 2013). However, institutional challenges, including American centered knowledge in classrooms, and limited social and career resources at the university, have negatively affected many CIGS’ abilities to cope with cultural differences, worsened their cultural shocks, confusions and disorientation in their behaviors and thinking when they experience and negotiate cultural differences. Based on strategies mentioned by CIGS that helped ... Thesis Spitzberg University of California: eScholarship |
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Global competence is a combination of openness attitudes and mutual understanding skills that facilitate social interaction behaviors among students from different backgrounds (Colvin & Edwards, 2018). Global competence has been promoted as the key to reduce inter-group conflicts and increase student satisfaction, retention, and campus climate at universities. Although global competence has been studied extensively within the US context, there are few studies that focus on international students. As individuals from foreign cultures, international students encounter cultural shocks and challenges. Their cultural negotiation strategies and experiences offer important insights to build global competence for all students in diverse and globalized societies.Drawing from a series of semi-structured in-depth interviews, this dissertation explores the relationship between cultural negotiation and global competence development for twenty-two Chinese International Graduate Students (CIGS) at a major research university in the United States. This study is based on an adapted bi-cultural model (Spitzberg & Changnon, 2009) which outlines individual and institutional factors for career and civic-oriented global competence development. The study contextualizes non-linear processes of how CIGS develop global competence in a negotiation with the multicultural environments provided by the educational programs in the US. The findings suggest that many CIGS’ diverse career and civic expectations are related to their learning-about or learning-with approaches to global learning (De Wit et al., 2013). However, institutional challenges, including American centered knowledge in classrooms, and limited social and career resources at the university, have negatively affected many CIGS’ abilities to cope with cultural differences, worsened their cultural shocks, confusions and disorientation in their behaviors and thinking when they experience and negotiate cultural differences. Based on strategies mentioned by CIGS that helped ... |
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Expectations, Challenges, and Strategies for Developing Global Competence: Experiences of Chinese International Graduate Students in the United States |
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