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The agency of international students has long been neglected and undertheorised, though recent literature indicates that this has started to change. This paper systematically reviews 51 studies that address student agency in international higher education. Focusing on research published in the last two decades (2000-2020), the review draws on studies that foreground student voices, or international students' perspectives, rather than the perspectives of teachers, administrators or policymakers. A detailed discussion of how international student agency is positioned in the literature found that agency appears as either: a research object, as part of a theoretical or conceptual framework, or an emergent finding. Furthermore, our analysis suggests that the term 'agency' is often used as a buzzword rather than as a fleshed-out concept. Thus, drawing on this initial analysis, the review synthesises varying but overlapping conceptualisations of international student agency in the literature into an integrative framework. Implications for future research are drawn, based on our findings about the understudied populations and methodological limitations in the literature., Author(s): Kelsey Inouye [sup.1] , Soyoung Lee [sup.1] , Yusuf Ikbal Oldac [sup.2] Author Affiliations: (1) grid.4991.5, 0000 0004 1936 8948, Department of Education, University of Oxford, , 15 Norham [...]

The agency of international students has long been neglected and undertheorised, though recent literature indicates that this has started to change. This paper systematically reviews 51 studies that address student agency in international higher education. Focusing on research published in the last two decades (2000-2020), the review draws on studies that foreground student voices, or international students' perspectives, rather than the perspectives of teachers, administrators or policymakers. A detailed discussion of how international student agency is positioned in the literature found that agency appears as either: a research object, as part of a theoretical or conceptual framework, or an emergent finding. Furthermore, our analysis suggests that the term "agency" is often used as a buzzword rather than as a fleshed-out concept. Thus, drawing on this initial analysis, the review synthesises varying but overlapping conceptualisations of international student agency in the literature into an integrative framework. Implications for future research are drawn, based on our findings about the understudied populations and methodological limitations in the literature.

In this essay, Soyoung Lee explores the theme of mourning as a way of attending to a fundamental aspect of human experience that is bound to negativity. The essay helps readers to see that experience in a different light by drawing on what is shown to be an internal connection between mourning and having language. The dominant culture of contemporary education is preoccupied with management and control, and this renders hollow the understanding of the negative experience children go through. Such experience, if it is acknowledged at all, is regarded as requiring intervention and perhaps correction. Yet negative experience, as Lee tries to show, is the very source of personal growth. This is to take human experience as wounded, and the wound as the very place for the creation of our own words. A hasty approach toward an individual's suffering, whether in the name of "healing" or "knowledge," becomes a suppression of voice. In its denial of the otherness within the self, it neglects the possibilities of self-transformation. The essay pursues these ideas through a reading of contrasting works of art: some poetry by Paul Celan (in conjunction with Jacques Derrida's response to it) and "Still Walking," a film directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. Both artworks deal with their own wounds and words in ways that are instructive.

This paper addresses the question of mental health, in particular the manner in which it finds its way into education. Increased attention to mental health in education should be welcomed, but often the focus is on 'problem-solving', which in turn confines the 'solution' within the spectrum of preventive and corrective intervention. Often it is the term 'mental health' itself that leads us to think of it, by analogy to physical health, as a kind of goal to be achieved, a recovery and recuperation--that is, something to be effectively aided and fixed. But I suggest that if there is any way that education can attend to children's mental health, it is rather by holding itself back from problem-solving. Then, other than considering the 'problem' as an object of inquiry or introspection, attention can be turned towards the contextuality of human experience and what I shall call its fundamentally wounded condition. Hence, a shifting in the conception of the problem. I take the film "Shoplifters" as a starting point--that is, as a site where we can attend to the particularities of reality and the specificities of experience. Towards the end, it will become clearer how film can direct us to an alternative way to attend to mental health in education.

BACKGROUND:The development of technology, novel communication, and social networking can positively or negatively affect the therapeutic alliance between patients and psychiatrists. We conducted this study to identify Internet use patterns of psychiatrists and psychiatry residents in South Korea and to provide basic data for developing e-professionalism. METHODS:In this questionnaire survey included a total of 250 participants, of which 195 (78%) completed the questionnaire. Questions included demographics, use of email, web searches, personal and professional use of websites and social networking, and negative and positive experiences of electronic communication and social networking. We confirmed the correlation between experience and use patterns of psychiatrists' electronic communication and social networking. RESULTS:A total of 129 participants (66.2%) reported that they posted their personal or professional content online, 112 (57.9%) had received patients' requests through electronic communication or social networking, and 120 (61.4%) had communicated with patients via electronic communication or social networking. In total, 170 participants (87.2%) reported that they were worried about the negative consequences of using electronic communication and social networking, and 180 (92.3%) indicated they were not educated about electronic communication or social networking. CONCLUSION:In order to reduce the negative effects of electronic communication and social networking, we need guidelines that are appropriate for the situation in South Korea. Furthermore, future research will need to identify and suggest solutions for negative experiences of electronic communication and social networking that may affect the relationship between patients and physicians.

In this article, the authors examine the effect of regulatory focus and privacy concerns on consumers' responses to highly personalized chatbot advertising. Findings from two experimental studies indicate that predominantly promotion-focused consumers are more receptive and respond more favorably to highly personalized chatbot advertising because they attend more to benefits they may gain from disclosing personal information. In contrast, consumers who are predominantly prevention focused are more attentive to the risks involved and feel unfavorably toward highly personalized chatbot advertising. In addition, consumers who are highly concerned about privacy disdain highly personalized ads, regardless of regulatory focus. Risk-benefit perceptions are shown to mediate interactions of ad personalization, regulatory focus, and privacy concerns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Teaching poetry presents difficulties of various kinds, and these can be illustrative of wider curricular and pedagogical challenges. This paper considers questions of knowledge and remembrance as they arise in two poems--Paul Celan's "Todesfuge" and Seamus Heaney's 'Mid-Term Break'--placing these in relation to Jean-François Lyotard's conception of the immemorial. Lyotard is concerned with a kind of repression in dominant conceptions of knowing and thinking, and with the insulation from experience that this effects. I shall argue that, in reading the poems, it is not so much the seeking of essential meanings that is at stake as a turning of attention to what cannot be fully grasped or contained. Towards the end, and with reference to Stanley Cavell, I discuss how refinement of judgement in relation to works of art can lead the way in shaping responsibility in our ethical and political lives. Such responsibility will be evident in our very words where these presuppose, depend on and are addressed to those of others.

Background: Pathogenic variants of MYH7, which encodes the beta-myosin heavy chain protein, are major causes of dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Methods: In this study, we used whole-genome sequencing data to identify MYH7 variants in 397 patients with various cardiomyopathy subtypes who were participating in the National Project of Bio Big Data pilot study in Korea. We also performed in silico analyses to predict the pathogenicity of the novel variants, comparing them to known pathogenic missense variants. Results: We identified 27 MYH7 variants in 41 unrelated patients with cardiomyopathy, consisting of 20 previously known pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants, 2 variants of uncertain significance, and 5 novel variants. Notably, the pathogenic variants predominantly clustered within the myosin motor domain of MYH7. We confirmed that the novel identified variants could be pathogenic, as indicated by high prediction scores in the in silico analyses, including SIFT, Mutation Assessor, PROVEAN, PolyPhen-2, CADD, REVEL, MetaLR, MetaRNN, and MetaSVM. Furthermore, we assessed their damaging effects on protein dynamics and stability using DynaMut2 and Missense3D tools. Conclusions: Overall, our study identified the distribution of MYH7 variants among patients with cardiomyopathy in Korea, offering new insights for improved diagnosis by enriching the data on the pathogenicity of novel variants using in silico tools and evaluating the function and structural stability of the MYH7 protein. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research examines how the interplay of consumer-brand relationship norm type (communal vs. exchange norm) and apology type (emotional vs. informational apology) impact consumers' responses in a brand crisis. Findings suggest that an informational apology was more effective in an exchange norm consumer-brand relationship than an emotional apology. On the other hand, in a communal consumer-brand relationship, an emotional apology was more effective than an informational apology. Further, findings revealed the significant mediating role of forgiveness in understanding the way consumers respond to brand's recovery effort (apology) in a brand crisis. With regards to the role of consumer-brand relationship in a brand crisis, these findings offer practical guidelines for practitioners for developing effective brand apology strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]