Memoir as a form of auto-ethnographic research for exploring the practice of transnational higher education in China

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Memoir as a form of auto-ethnographic research for exploring the practice of transnational higher education in China

In this paper, I argue that memoir, as a form of auto-ethnographic research, is an appropriate method for exploring the complexities and singularities in the practice of western educational practitioners who are immersed in the social reality of offshore higher education institutions, such as those...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Scott, Joy Denise
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Routledge 2014
Subjects:	offshore education foreign teachers lived experience higher education auto-ethnography research methodologies China memoir
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13146

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