Abstract Background With the increasing demand brought on by beginning of fourth industrial revolution in period post-digital education and bio-digital technology, artificial intelligence (AI) has played a pivotal role supporting human contributing to intellectuals within science, mathematics (STEM) broader field higher education. Thus, this study examines how writers for mainstream STEM journals magazines perceive impact ChatGPT, powerful AI chatbot, research ChatGPT can generate realistic...

Book Review| January 08 2025 Academic Freedom and Teaching in Asia: Historical Perspectives the Post-Pandemic Responses The Pandemic: on Asia. Edited by Vinayak Chaturvedi. Ann Arbor, MI: Association of Asian Studies, 2020. 183 pp. ISBN: 9781952636172.New Threats to Dimitar D. Gueorguiev. 2022. 179 9781952636318.Teaching about Asia a Time Pandemic. David Kenley. 2021. 220 9781952636196. Benjamin H. Nam Shanghai International Studies University Search for other works this author on: This Site...

Despite the promise of English language teaching and use as a medium instruction, concerns have been growing about decline in number majors well structural problems elite education reflected rural-urban divide resulting educational gaps China. The major at top language-intensive university could serve key site for this investigation. However, existing literature has significantly overlooked important area. This study explored life course stages Chinese students who were originally from rural...

This study presents a digital ethnography of the Anglo-Chinese academic family community (ASAFC) amid China's transformation into post-pandemic era. The ASAFC members are men from Anglophone countries married to Chinese women. Thus, two American male authors and one author observed WeChat group texts shared by 64 individuals between 16 November 2022, 31 January 2023, in turn, triangulated their field notes analyse experiences ASAFC. By underpinning concepts intercultural capital ambiguous...

This longitudinal study presents a critical phenomenological comparison of mental health and early career adaptation challenges encountered by Chinese returnees Korean ambitionists in the post-pandemic academic job market. They were international doctoral candidates American higher education pursuing careers science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics (STEAM) but failed to secure tenure-track faculty positions. Consequently, all returned their home country, while Koreans remained...

This study presents a digital ethnography of expats’ survival amid the Shanghai lockdown during Omicron variant outbreak. drew insights from studies on resilience and secondary coping within context global migration to comprehend diverse emotional challenges faced by expats in series lockdowns persistent nucleic acid amplification tests. Thus, this asks what major sources social support they could draw citizens their host country lockdown. Accordingly, collected WeChat group conversations...

This article presents a co-constructive narrative inquiry into the subjectivities of three female graduate student researchers (GSRs) from China, Vietnam, and Finland pursuing academic career paths in comparative international education (CIE). Two American teacher their GSRs came to this research committed collaborative action. They explored educational professional journeys local global as teachers, administrators, cultural ambassadors, service-learners, volunteers. promotes scholarly...

The COVID-19 pandemic has hindered the effectiveness of museum management and curatorship, a growing concern for movement international heritage conservation. Accordingly, this participatory action research explores emergence Museum World Languages at Shanghai International Studies University during pandemic. By drawing insights from Pierre Bourdieu's concepts symbolic power social agency in new museology, paper educative, social, political roles language experiences student curators with...

This phenomenological study explores the experiences of Chinese international undergraduate students in United States as they work through complications COVID-19 that are potentially intertwined with Sinophobia. By drawing on insights from critical race theory, especially lens racial trauma and trauma-informed care, current interprets four primary themes: (a) Paradox: Confusions about Racism Academic Life; (b) Racially-Traumatic Incidences Risk Factors Social Cultural (c) Exodus: Burnout,...

This study adopts a critical phenomenological approach to explore the impacts of COVID-19 on transnational educational experiences Chinese college students in short-term academic exchange programmeshosted by universities United States. uses concepts cosmopolitan capital and ambiguous loss interpret pandemic students. Accordingly, current promotes scholarly conversation about meanings global student mobility time COVID-19, especially international who have missed learning opportunities their...

This study explores international faculty members’ resilience and the active challenges to establishing coping mechanisms while facing a mental health crisis provoked by Delta Omicron lockdowns in China. Grounded qualitative approach, this used transcendental phenomenological methodology examine 16 members affiliated with higher education institutions Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing. The findings showed that participants had various issues amid snap persistent nucleic acid application tests....

This cross-cultural ethnography explored the global student mobility patterns of international students from English-speaking countries in China and asked research questions about (a) their motivational factors acculturation expectations before arrival; (b) linguistic influencing acculturative stressors host group community's culture its academic, social, public systems after (c) reflections on intergroup ideologies with community graduation, based looking ahead. study collected data through...

This transcendental phenomenological study explored psychologically traumatic incidents and risk factors among international faculty members (IFMs) who experienced long-term lockdowns during the Delta Omicron outbreak periods in East China. Based on empirical voices from 18 IFMs Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, this used trauma-informed care as its primary theoretical lens to examine potential factors. Findings showed that participants had neuroses about omen of felt exhausted frustrated...

Despite the growing body of literature on structural problems emergency remote teaching during COVID-19 pandemic, far too little empirical research has been conducted university academics’ challenges in online pedagogy and what is needed to facilitate their a time educational crisis. Thus, this study selects high-profile Chinese language as case explore how academics China have dealt with pandemic. This paper conducts open-ended interviews 22 academic faculty members adopts TPACK concepts...

The Korea International Cooperation Agency's Pacific Asia Society Youth Corps (KOICA-PYC) is a global volunteer organization that has dispatched college students to the region for more than past two decades. This study explores how executive board members of KOICA-PYC evaluate Korean during their summer vacations. specifically asks view students' development ideas regarding social and cultural society through experiences in greater these increase understanding citizenship. findings show...

This study used critical theory as a theoretical lens to explore how diverse individuals, groups and organizations have made endeavours promote social change policy reform regarding human rights issues involved with South Korean student-athletes. Therefore, three primary cases of activism were examined. The first case was the civil society initial gatekeeper increase public attention. second journalists that delivered messages general population through media. third scholars who directly...

Abstract Cultures responded to the COVID‐19 pandemic differently. We investigated cultural differences in mental health during pandemic. found regional people's reports of anxiety China over two years from 2020 2021 ( N = 1186). People areas with a history rice farming reported more than people wheat‐farming areas. Next, we explored proximal mechanisms that could help link distal, historical factor modern experience anxiety. Rice scored higher on collectivism and tight social norms wheat...

This study explores four core vocational development programmes for former Korean elite athletes that were designed to develop their linguistic and cross-cultural competencies professional knowledge in sport. Further, this seeks determine if there are any positive influences existing challenges with regard fostering potential sports human capital on the global stage. Qualitative individual interviews conducted 19 participants, who divided into two groups. The first group of participants...