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Author Phan, Le-Ha

Title Transnational Education Crossing 'Asia' and 'the West' : Adjusted desire, transformative mediocrity and neo-colonial disguise
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (281 pages)
Series Routledge Research in Higher Education
Routledge research in higher education.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1 Defining a stance; 2 Foregrounding the debates; 3 The West, Asia, and 'the rise of Asia'; 4 Engaging with the 'convenient' Western-Asian paradox; 5 English, internationalisation of higher education, and identity: Increasing academic monolingualism and English-only package; 6 Appropriating and abusing transnational education in Saudi Arabia: Commercialisation, neoliberalism, desire, and English (with Osman Barnawi); 7 Student identities in transnational space: Vietnam in focus
8 Intercultural interactions in English-medium programmes as imagined interactions with a 'Western' entity9 International teaching staff and international students raising concerns over questions of integration and belonging in TNE; 10 Transnational education and dream realisation: From the Philippines to Vietnam, from Afghanistan to Dubai, from everywhere in Asia to Thailand; 11 Desiring international/transnational education: Theorisation of key concepts and next steps from here; 12 Afterword; References; Index
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Subject Transnational education -- Asia
Transnational education -- Western countries
English language -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Asia
Language and education -- Asia
English language -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Language and education
Transnational education
Asia
Western countries
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317638148
131763814X