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Hand-in-hand with the continuing drive to recruit international students to Western universities goes an interest in student engagement. However, it is often unclear exactly what is meant by engagement. This book goes beyond the policy rhetoric to provide a practice-based explication of international student engagement and its enabling institutional conditions. By utilising a social practice conceptual model, the book explains the multiple dimensions of engagement that are often conflated in policy: the antecedents to engagement, the actions of engaging, and the achievements and outcomes of engagement. As a result, the book is able to address issues such as how English comes to matter in international student academic practice; the teaching and assessment approaches that promote international student engagement; and the metacognitive, cognitive and affective strategies that international students use to achieve academic and personal transformation.
Despite an extended history of international education, questions persist about how to educate international students. This timely book provides a much-needed positive exemplar that is richly contextualised, while foregrounding international students’ experiences in higher education. It is a clear, accessible account with implications for practice, policy and research relating to international students.
Margaret Kettle is an academic and researcher in TESOL, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Preface
Chapter One: The Globalisation and Internationalisation of Higher Education
Chapter Two: International Students in the Western Academy: Representations across Time
Chapter Three: Conceptualising International Student Engagement
Chapter Four: University People and Places: Diversity in Action
Chapter Five: English: What Counts In the Academy
Chapter Six: Teaching: Generating Learning and Participation
Chapter Seven: Crafting Lives: Action, Austerity, Aesthetics
Chapter Eight: International Student Engagement in Higher Education
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