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Negotiating Knowledges Abroad: Non-Western Students and the Global Mobility of Knowledge
- Source :
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Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education . 2014 44(6):895-915. - Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- Taking the Institute for Housing Studies in Rotterdam as a case study, this paper aims to theorise the ways non-Western, international students construct and negotiate knowledges in Western institutions of higher education. It describes the types of knowledges these students identify as characteristic of their learning abroad, distinguishing between the curriculum, knowledge of cultural Others and "critical thinking," and the strategies of incorporation, avoidance and resistance with which students negotiate these knowledges. These knowledges, if contested, are then theorised to facilitate these students' entry into, and mobility within, globally dispersed epistemic communities.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0305-7925
- Volume :
- 44
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1045951
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2013.824782