Events

By Dely Lazarte Elliot

Chair: Yang Rui
Using a psychological lens, this seminar will focus on the opportunities and challenges inherent in the educational sojourn experience of a considerable number of students engaged in international education. The discussion will be grounded in a developmental theory originally proposed by Urie Bronfenbrenner leading to a new perspective concerning the distinctive processes entailed in an educational sojourn, particularly the implications of co-existing multilevel ecological systems from both ‘home’ and ‘host’ countries. There is a strong argument that a greater appreciation of this less explored perspective of academic acculturation is not only central to the quality of students’ educational experience but is equally crucial to the success or failure of these educational sojourns. The value of understanding academic acculturation warrants an important question with respect to the roles played by Higher Education Institutions, staff members and students themselves in maximising what international education can offer, not only to educational sojourners but equally, to realising ‘internationalisation at home’.
Dr Dely Lazarte Elliot is a lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow convening Educational Psychology and contributing to other postgraduate courses. She has a strong interest in both the academic and non-academic acculturation encountered by postgraduate students learning in international higher education contexts.

She recently led two research projects: a) Academic acculturation through international education: The British higher Education experience (funded by Adam Smith Research Foundation), and b) Towards maximising international PhD students’ experience in the UK (funded by Economic And Social Research Council IAA).

Dely regularly publishes and reviews in the areas of international education and doctoral education. She serves as an Associate Editor for the Higher Education Research & Development (HERD) Journal. Recent publications appear in Studies in Higher Education, Higher Education Research & Development, Oxford Review of Education and International Journal of Research & Method in Education.

Date: Tuesday 17 April 2018

Time: 14:30 – 15:45

Venue:  Room 202, Runme Shaw Building

All are welcome!

Speakers: Ruth Hayhoe and Li Jun

Chair: Mark Bray

Friday 21 April, 11:45am-12:45 pm.

The first edition of this book, published in Canada, was developed a decade ago to help teachers in multicultural schools to understand the nature and value of comparative and international education. This second edition, published in 2017, builds on the strengths of the first edition. Among the revised chapters is one co-authored by Ruth Hayhoe and Li Jun entitled ‘Philosophy and Comparative Education: What can we learn from East Asia’.

Ruth Hayhoe is one of the co-editors of the book. She is a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her professional engagements in Asia have spanned 35 years, including foreign expert at Fudan University in Shanghai in the early 1980s, First Secretary for Education, Science and Culture at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, 1989-1991, and Director of the Hong Kong Institute of Education, 1997-2002. Several of her books, including her autobiography, Full Circle: A Life with Hong Kong and China, have been published by CERC.

Li Jun is a CERC member in the PASSE Division of the Faculty of Education. He was originally trained as a historian of Chinese education and later as a policy analyst of international education and development, each with a PhD. With Ruth Hayhoe and also Lin Jing and Zha Qiang he co-authored the CERC book Portraits of 21^st Century Chinese Universities: In the Move to Mass Higher Education.

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