Impacts of International Education Shifts through Transnation Stories of Three Vietnamese Doctoral Students
International Perspectives on Education and Society
; 42A:93-105, 2022.
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in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-1922585
ABSTRACT
In response to COVID-19 global outbreaks, Canada, and Australia, two favored destinations by international students, as the contexts of this essay, have enacted different international education policies, which will be investigated through the narratives. The authors discuss transnationality and mobility as key terms in the internationalization of higher education (HE) studies through their experiences as three Vietnamese doctoral students in Canada and Australia. Transnationality is attended through a narrative of a Vietnamese returnee struggling with bringing unfamiliar knowledge of gender and sex education from the West into a Vietnamese HE context. Mobility is unpacked through stories of a Vietnamese doctoral student in Canada stuck in Vietnam due to the COVID-19 despite inviting policies from the Canadian government to international students. This experience is connected to another Vietnamese student’s experience in Australia about a controversial act to discourage international students from staying in Australia if they cannot support themselves during the pandemic. The authors’ stories are created and retold personally for introspective and contemplative reflections on what the authors have experienced and offer considerations for how transnationality and mobility in international and comparative education could be understood through education, equity, and inclusion.
Education; COVID-19; transnationality; mobility; international education policies; education inequity; higher education; Narratives; Foreign students; Graduate students; Destinations; International education; Transnationalism; Education policy; Graduate studies; Sex education; Pandemics; Coronaviruses; Globalization; Canada; Australia
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Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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English
Journal:
International Perspectives on Education and Society
Year:
2022
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Article
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