Overview
- Provides non-French-speaking readers’ with the access to knowledge of French higher education
- Clarifies the importance of contexts at different levels in the internationalization of higher education
- Enlarges readers’ visions towards international student recruitment incentives and the implementation of branding strategies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: East-West Crosscurrents in Higher Education (EWCHE)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The research data presents in this book was collected from four local institutions, two Grandes Écoles and two universities, one of each focusing on the social sciences and the other on natural sciences and technology. Interviews with major stakeholders in the institutions, including personnel from international offices, faculty/researchers and international students were adopted as principal methods for data collection. The thematic organization of the findings in each chapter covers views from three levels of stakeholders’ and interprets the results within theoretical frames, such as institutional theories, world-system theory, international academic relationship theory and branding theory.
Readers will find this book both practical and innovative in four key ways. Firstly, in knowledge diffusion, revealing the mysterious veil of the unique French dual higher education system. Secondly, in new knowledge production, exploring a new subject of research and filling the blanks from previous studies of the two groups of institutions. Thirdly, in presenting new interesting sights into current reforms in Frances’s higher education and how far principles of path dependency will ensure strong continuities with the past as against a tendency to homogenization in response to pressures from Europeanization and global ranking systems. Finally, in exploring the dimension of interculturality and the interplay between researcher’s identity and research process.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Students in French Universities and Grandes Écoles: A Comparative Study
Authors: Cui Bian
Series Title: East-West Crosscurrents in Higher Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1134-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1132-0Published: 31 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9337-1Published: 15 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-1134-4Published: 22 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2364-6810
Series E-ISSN: 2364-6829
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 267
Number of Illustrations: 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Higher Education, International and Comparative Education