“Here we go again”: unfolding HE students’ hybrid experience and resilience during post-covid times

Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 22

Published: July 20, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted higher education (HE) globally, causing students to feel disconnected and burdened with online learning. In response, many institutions have adopted a hybrid approach teaching learning (T-L) mitigate future outbreaks. However, the impact of T-L on students' experiences remains underexplored. This study aims investigate post-pandemic, including satisfaction, engagement, self-efficacy, identify areas for pedagogical improvement. mixed-methods 246 from six HEs in Malaysia found that (HL) was associated positive student experiences, high which attributed efficacy during flexibility afforded by HL, highlighting need pedagogy supports engagement builds resilience post-pandemic setting HE. Overall, contributes literature HL post-COVID era shedding light how navigated rapid educational shifts caused pandemic. It provides insights into can be optimized effective engaging highlights importance continuous professional development ensure teachers are equipped necessary skills HL.

Language: Английский

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The Reconstruction of the Cosmopolitan Imaginary: Chinese International Students during the COVID‐19 Pandemic¹

Sociological Inquiry, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 94(2), P. 453 - 471

Published: July 18, 2023

Social and geopolitical disruptions triggered by the COVID‐19 crisis have raised crucial questions about shifting meaning of race, citizenship, nationality for transborder migrants amidst receding globalization, hardening borders, tensions. The aim this paper is to examine ways in which Chinese international students viewed negotiated their ambiguous racial ethnonational position between nations during global pandemic. Drawing on 16 student interviews at one upstate New York campus 2019 2021, we argue that occupied a liminal space shapes understanding race racism through distinctly lens. Double‐edged exclusion discrimination from both US China pandemic heightened sense social dislocation withdrawal nationalist politics countries. In process, they not so much surrendered cosmopolitan ideals motivated migration but rather, reimagined them while maintaining delicate balance ethnonationalist loyalties. Our findings provide insights into future political trajectory amid tense US–China relations help explain contradictions diasporic worldviews current affairs.

Language: Английский

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Conceptualising distance doctoral study after COVID-19: are we post-distance now?

Distance Education, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 18

Published: Aug. 27, 2024

While the COVID-19 pandemic has affected many educational practices, it also acted as an amplifier, accelerating emergent trends. One such trend concerns nature of distance doctoral education that, even before pandemic, was characterised by conceptual ambiguity. This article re-considers meaning "distance education" in a context where on/off-campus binary been profoundly disrupted. In this paper, we locate off-campus intersecting literatures on and education, then advance "post-" framework use to conceptualise contemporary study. Empirically, our paper draws insights from 2022 survey 521 students, which demonstrate complexity variation evident manifestations "distance" reported. We propose that may have entered post-distance terrain, previous conceptualisations or proximity are altered. Our offers implications for thinking about context.

Language: Английский

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‘Dear Epsom’: a poetic autoethnography on campus as home of an international doctoral student in Aotearoa New Zealand

London Review of Education, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 21(1)

Published: Jan. 1, 2023

This article delineates my place attachment and sense of home in Epsom campus, University Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, where I studied for PhD two periods time: during the first year programme, when was established; returned to Vietnam six-month research trip stranded due Covid-19 pandemic, leading campus being weakened disrupted. Using poetic autoethnography as methodology, recount personal experiences how grew attached university a physical place, social spaces cultural diversity, friendship, academic student identity development. The offers an analysis unique emotional experience on off involuntarily, which is hardly found extant literature international mobility students’ lived experiences.

Language: Английский

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European doctoral researchers’ work communication during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cogent Education, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 10(2)

Published: Oct. 31, 2023

The situation caused by coronavirus disease 2019 closures in the spring of 2020 resulted various restrictions for universities and led to a reorganisation their operations. This created unprecedented challenges all academic work. study aimed analyse pandemic-related work experiences doctoral researchers from several European universities. Thirty-eight management organisation studies wrote voluntarily about experiences. analysis focused on communication since it emerged as key theme writings. An analytical framework was developed capture corporeal, virtual, formal, informal dimensions 72 relevant mentions that were extracted These rich evaluative space they evaluated different aspects communication. general finding combinations received both positive negative evaluations theoretically made sense sociomaterial—technological perspective. Doctoral must become immersed specific sociomaterially technologically constructed entanglements achieve goals findings revealed these impeding determinants well enabling carry out novel creative ways.

Language: Английский

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Challenges Posed by COVID-19 on Doctoral Students’ Wellbeing in Russia: Of International and Domestic Doctoral Students, Who Suffers More?

Psychology Research and Behavior Management, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: Volume 16, P. 2005 - 2028

Published: June 1, 2023

While universities closed, implementing remote teaching and learning in response to COVID-19, this change significantly impacted the lives of graduate students, given their exposure unique diverse experiences. It thus has become essential understand possible differences regard pandemic's impact on international domestic students.The aim study was explore consequences challenges posed by COVID-19 doctoral students' wellbeing Russia.The surveyed 4454 students across 249 Russian public universities.The negatively affected experience (β= -0.269, p<0.001); satisfaction with supervision -0.098, dissertation -0.039, program -0.034, p<0.001). Furthermore, (β=-0.368, (β=-0.194, p<0.001) (β=-0.034, However, influence communication frequency relatively positive for both (β=0.060, (β=0.021, p<0.001), (β=0.061, also only students. controlled factors comprising field (β=-0.033, year (β=0.127, university region (β=-0.056, influenced effect had greatest supervisors underwent a (which implies no categories students). Finally, among variables, study, were discovered be significant relation

Language: Английский

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Grafted transnationalism: Rhythmic routines and disruptions of stay‐at‐home international students

Population Space and Place, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 30(1)

Published: Sept. 6, 2023

Abstract Despite the lifting of COVID‐19 restrictions eventually, destabilising consequences pandemic on migration persist and continue to worsen. Based in‐depth interviews with 25 Chinese international students, this paper asks what new forms education transnationality are being introduced by intersection digital mobility physical immobility. Using Henri Lefebvre's (2004) rhythmanalysis, we understand stay‐at‐home students' sensual experiences as palpable aspects daily existence that not only constitute transnational lived temporalities but also trigger ‘small accidents’, leading potentially larger‐scale temporal changes. By attending dynamic interaction between their agency external structure, conclude situated corporeal emotional suffering, embodied transitioning strategies, changes pathways make up fabric immobile everydayness ‘grafted transnationalism’. This contributes existing scholarship highlighting dual sense exclusion students experience in both social time, well multilayered possibilities reorientation way regaining control dyssynchronous rhythmic encounters. It sorts out implications lifetime geography students’ differentially distributed vulnerability susceptibility when facing life course disruptions.

Language: Английский

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