书目名称 | Navigating International Academia | 副标题 | Research Student Nar | 编辑 | Jill Brown | 视频video | | 概述 | While much has been written about post-graduate students, little has been written by them; these narratives, all written by post-graduate research students reflect on their entry into academia and the | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .These narratives recount what it means to be a research student at an Australian university. They unpack the complex pathways that have lead the authors to this place, the early imaginings, the attempts to achieve the dream and the challenges that come with that achievement. These students bring a range of life skills and experiences to their studies and need to balance competing financial, family and employment related demands on their time and attention. For the international students whose voices dominate this text, there are also barriers of culture, language and physical and emotional dislocation. Students from Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Iraq and Romania recount the personal and academic challenges they have faced and the ways in which they have struggled to find a way of being in academia which both accommodates their sense of self and allows them to be recognised as researchers in the international arena. An Australian student adds her voice to the collection. .Their stories all combine the intensely personal with the academic. There is the joy of finding libraries full of books, of making friends with strangers, of managing to be student, partner and parent. There is | 出版日期 | Book 2014 | 关键词 | internationalization; narrative; students | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-704-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-6209-704-9 | copyright | SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2014 |
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