Transitioning 'In-Between'

Foreword

 Bob Lingard

Acknowledgements

1 Globalisation, Internationalisation, and Transnational Higher Education

 1 Globalisation and Internationalisation of Higher Education

 2 Transnational Higher Education

 3 Transnational Higher Education in China

 4 Signifijicance of This Study

 5 Research Design: A Narrative Inquiry

 6 Conclusion

2 Cross-System Transitions across Cultures, Spaces, and Places

 1 Transitioning and Learning between Cultures

 2 Cultural Influences Shaping Chinese Learners

 3 Critical Understandings of CHC and Chinese Students

 4 Encountering Shocks with Complicated Transitioning Trajectories

 5 Moving across Diffferent Spaces and Places as Diaspora

 6 Conclusion

3 Start the TAP Journey with Various Certainties and Uncertainties

 1 Begin the TAP Journey

 2 Encountering Certainties and Uncertainties

 3 Conclusion

4 A Tortuous Trajectory of Intercultural Learning

 1 Positively Deal with Changes in Transition

 2 Being Stressful in Transition

 3 Shifting between Multiple Identities as Intercultural Learner

 4 Dependent and Demotivated Followers in China

 5 Becoming Independent and Motivated Explorer in Australia

 6 Shaping Diffferent Senses of Belonging as Transnational Diaspora

 7 Conclusion

5 Mapping a Transitioning In-Between Learning Space

 1 The Conceptualisation of the Transitioning In-Between Space in TAP

 2 Conclusion

6 A Reflexive Journey as an In-Betweener

 1 Transitioning between Diffferent Schools as a Domestic Diaspora

 2 Transitioning from China to Australia as a TAP Student

 3 Shifting between Chinese and Australian Contexts

 4 Conclusion

7 Critical Reflections: Becoming Compatible

 1 Dynamically Transitioning between Diffferent Systems

 2 (Re)shaping Identity, Agency, and Belonging in Cross-System Transition

 3 The Contour of the In-Between Learning Space in TAP

 4 Intercultural Adjustment as a Way of Transitioning In-Between

 5 Implications

8 Conclusion

References

Index