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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Western academia"”.
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Exploring Chinese Graduate Students' Learner Identity in Group Work in Western Academia: Perceptions, Representations and Challenges
Group work (GW) is commonly used in many countries around the world. The emerging predominance of GW assignments represents a major trend in higher education (Burdett & Hastie, 2009) as employers highly value teamwork skills and seek the development of these in university graduates (Cranmer, 2006). …
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AN AFROCENTRIC RE-EXAMINATION OF THE HISTORIOGRAPHY AROUND THE AFRIKAN REVOLUTION IN AYITI
Throughout the history of western academia, there have been scholars who have interpreted and examined various aspects of human history. Within their “objectivity,” European historians and other Eurocentric scholars make it a point to universalize their own interpretations of different people’s …
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The Bedouin of the Fatimid Empire: Faith vs. Politics in a Medieval Islamic Empire
… attacked by powerful Bedouin, this time from the western parts of the Empire. Arabic texts have recorded, albeit clouded by a Sunnī-Shīʿah prejudice, interactions between the Fatimids and various Bedouin tribes. Conversely, modern Western academia has commenced interpreting some of these …
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“It Belongs to Us”: Chinese Youth’s Imagined Futures
… into youth identities, agency, and autonomy. In western academia, researchers have adopted a dual approach to exploring imagined futures, distinguishing between short-term, personal futures and long-term, societal futures (Cook, 2018; Leahy et al., 2010). This study strives to evaluate the …
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The Vernacular Discourse of the "Arab Spring": An Analysis of the Visual, the Embodied, and the Textual Rhetorics of the Karama Revolution
… Euro-Americo-centric legacies of Orientalism in Western academia and the new wave of extremism in the Arab world by offering alternative representations of Arab bodies and subjectivities. To offer this new reading of the "Arab Spring," it explores the foundations of critical rhetoric as a theory …
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Listening to undergraduate Chinese students' perspectives on plagiarism
… a burgeoning international student population in Western higher education. The University of Illinois is no exception. In order to meet the needs of this new group, researchers are closely examining their educational culture and how it influences their ability to learn English for Academic …
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Egyptian Civil Society (Transnational vs. Local): The Distinction Between Theory and Practice
… context rather than how it is understood in Western academia and policy. In the developing context civil society is often not simply a grassroots sector, as is often suggested, and rather an intricate network of transnational organizations funded by foreign governments or WB and IMF, while …
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PERFORMATIVE CORPORATE TRAINING IN TAIWAN
… Based on my systematic literature review of Western academia and analysis of Taiwanese practices, I create a calligraphic model for developing and analyzing performative corporate training programs within organizational and cultural contexts. This model elaborates three characteristics of the …
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Women's career in Vietnamese academia: An analysis from multiple lenses
… few studies have explored women’s experiences in academia, including the exploratory studies into barriers and facilitators experienced by female deans (T. L. H. Nguyen, 2012) and experiences of female university rectors in Vietnam (Funnell & Dao, 2013). Alongside these studies, Do and Brennan …