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How do I fault thee? Discursive practices on western higher education studies and the construction of international student subjectivities

- Zeegers, Margaret, Barron, Deirdre

Authors: Zeegers, Margaret , Barron, Deirdre
Date: 2011
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Progress in Education p. 31-52
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Description: In this chapter we focus on discursive practices of research higher degree supervision as crucial elements in constructs of international student subjectivities when undertaking studies in Australian universities. We position our discussion within an Australian context, but we would argue that the issues we raise regarding the supervision of such students are applicable to other western English-speaking countries that attract international Higher Degree Research students. In doing so, we focus on discursive fields emerging within domains of internationalization, globalization, and resistance. We examine processes and protocols in a number of Australian universities postgraduate divisions’ practices in the conduct of research higher degree supervision—in the context of increasing pressures towards internationalization within frameworks of globalizing influences. We take issue with western custom and tradition as privileged within the field of supervision of research higher degree students. We suggest variations of supervision of International candidates as intentional and systematic interventions, based on literature deriving from existing research of supervision which acknowledges the problematic natures of cultural relationships in relation to teaching, learning, and knowledge production, and student resistance within these fields. We examine issues of discursive practices and the problematic natures of power relationships in supervisor/supervisee protocols and possibilities suggested by alternative models of higher degree by research supervision of international students.
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Happiness is a thing called stable extraversion: Testing Eysenck's thesis among three samples in Australia

- Francis, Leslie, Fisher, John

Authors: Francis, Leslie , Fisher, John
Date: 2013
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: The happiness compass: Theories, actions and perspectives for well-being p.
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Description: How happy are you? This naive question proved to be so powerful as to shake up social sciences and attract the attention of media and policy makers around the globe. Everybody wants to be happy. Thanks to the recent progress in measuring subjective well-being, social sciences have asserted that people's own evaluation about their well-being must be taken seriously. The opportunity of measuring happiness in a consistent and reliable way provides new impulse to a joint effort from a variety of disciplines to improve people's quality of life and potentially change the way modern societies are organized.

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