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This chapter introduces the reader to the major themes addressed in this book. We consider the significant and growing literature upon international students’ experiences and factors associated with their mobility, concentrating upon the factors unique to student mobility across international boundaries. We focus on qualitative research into international students’ reports about their own experiences. We briefly introduce readers to qualitative facet theory and the declarative mapping sentence (DMS) which forms the book’s theoretical approach where the DMS is used as a definitional structure for student experience and a template for designing, interpreting, and understanding students’ experiences. We use economic and marketing concepts to enable exploration of salient themes for international students allowing us to emphasizse what helps and hinders international students’ pursuit of their goals.
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Over the past decade Paul Hackett has developed the facet approach as a methodology into philosophical enquiry and to employ qualitative data and thinking (Hackett, 2018).
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Hackett, P.M.W., Capobianco, P.M. (2020). Background and Characteristics of International Student Mobility and Access to Higher Education. In: International Student Mobility and Access to Higher Education. Marketing and Communication in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44139-5_2
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