Overview
- Tells the stories of Chinese engineering students’ academic lives in U.S. institutions through a solid cognitive theoretical lens
- Clarifies factors that can potentially facilitate adult students’ cognitive development in an U.S. engineering doctoral educational context
- Increases our current understanding of the benefits of study-abroad and cross-cultural education for the epistemological domain
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: East-West Crosscurrents in Higher Education (EWCHE)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Epistemological Developmental Theories and Their Applications
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A Research Design for Measuring Epistemological Development
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A Quantitative Exploration of Chinese Engineering Doctoral Students’ Epistemological Development
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A Qualitative Exploration of Chinese Engineering Doctoral Students’ Epistemological Thinking Styles
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About this book
It allows readers to gain an understanding of Chinese engineering students’ academic lives in U.S. institutions through a cognitive theoretical lens. It also highlights a number of factors that can potentially facilitate adult students’ cognitive development, and extends the discussion on the benefits of study-abroad and cross-cultural education to the epistemological domain.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Chinese Engineering Doctoral Students in U.S. Institutions
Book Subtitle: A personal epistemology perspective
Authors: Jiabin Zhu
Series Title: East-West Crosscurrents in Higher Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1136-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore and Higher Education Press 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1135-1Published: 12 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9338-8Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-1136-8Published: 03 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2364-6810
Series E-ISSN: 2364-6829
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 190
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Higher Education, International and Comparative Education, Learning & Instruction