Transnational students' attachment to place in campus: towards the internationalization of Universiti Putra Malaysia

In many universities around the world internationalization is promoted as a top priority to attract lucrative international student markets. To achieve this goal, it is essential to facilitate a sense of place amongst transnational students to eradicate social and psychological problems in the new e...

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Main Authors: Mat Raschid, Mohammad Yazah, Fatemi, Ezaz, Sharif, Roslina, Ismail, Abdul Halim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Jabatan Seni Bina, Fakulti Kejuruteraan & Alam Bina, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15923/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15923/1/Transnational%20students%27%20attachment%20to%20place%20in%20campus%20towards%20the%20internationalization%20of%20Universiti%20Putra%20Malaysia.pdf
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author Mat Raschid, Mohammad Yazah
Fatemi, Ezaz
Sharif, Roslina
Ismail, Abdul Halim
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Fatemi, Ezaz
Sharif, Roslina
Ismail, Abdul Halim
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description In many universities around the world internationalization is promoted as a top priority to attract lucrative international student markets. To achieve this goal, it is essential to facilitate a sense of place amongst transnational students to eradicate social and psychological problems in the new educational environment. Despite this, there seems to be insufficient records on the actual manner of transnational students’ securitizing the issue and how it has impacted their educational lifestyles. Therefore, the challenge now is to ascertain the actual level of attachment in campus before embarking into a more related complex and multidisciplinary social and physical studies. The aim of this study to investigate the level of emotional attachment of place of international students and the manner it affects their educational experiences in Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) main campus. For this reason, a 5-point Likert-Scaled questionnaire survey on 336 UPM international students and data analysis using SPSS were conducted. Results demonstrate that the international students have a low emotional place attachment towards the campus design which also affects their social well-being and psychological health. Recognizing the main indicators of emotional attachment also assist in improving the physical design of the campus to support the international students’ sense of place attachment.
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spelling upm-159232019-11-12T02:56:24Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15923/ Transnational students' attachment to place in campus: towards the internationalization of Universiti Putra Malaysia Mat Raschid, Mohammad Yazah Fatemi, Ezaz Sharif, Roslina Ismail, Abdul Halim In many universities around the world internationalization is promoted as a top priority to attract lucrative international student markets. To achieve this goal, it is essential to facilitate a sense of place amongst transnational students to eradicate social and psychological problems in the new educational environment. Despite this, there seems to be insufficient records on the actual manner of transnational students’ securitizing the issue and how it has impacted their educational lifestyles. Therefore, the challenge now is to ascertain the actual level of attachment in campus before embarking into a more related complex and multidisciplinary social and physical studies. The aim of this study to investigate the level of emotional attachment of place of international students and the manner it affects their educational experiences in Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) main campus. For this reason, a 5-point Likert-Scaled questionnaire survey on 336 UPM international students and data analysis using SPSS were conducted. Results demonstrate that the international students have a low emotional place attachment towards the campus design which also affects their social well-being and psychological health. Recognizing the main indicators of emotional attachment also assist in improving the physical design of the campus to support the international students’ sense of place attachment. Jabatan Seni Bina, Fakulti Kejuruteraan & Alam Bina, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15923/1/Transnational%20students%27%20attachment%20to%20place%20in%20campus%20towards%20the%20internationalization%20of%20Universiti%20Putra%20Malaysia.pdf Mat Raschid, Mohammad Yazah and Fatemi, Ezaz and Sharif, Roslina and Ismail, Abdul Halim (2017) Transnational students' attachment to place in campus: towards the internationalization of Universiti Putra Malaysia. Journal of Design + Built, 10. pp. 27-35. ISSN 1985-6881 http://spaj.ukm.my/jsb/index.php/jdb/article/view/283
spellingShingle Mat Raschid, Mohammad Yazah
Fatemi, Ezaz
Sharif, Roslina
Ismail, Abdul Halim
Transnational students' attachment to place in campus: towards the internationalization of Universiti Putra Malaysia
title Transnational students' attachment to place in campus: towards the internationalization of Universiti Putra Malaysia
title_full Transnational students' attachment to place in campus: towards the internationalization of Universiti Putra Malaysia
title_fullStr Transnational students' attachment to place in campus: towards the internationalization of Universiti Putra Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Transnational students' attachment to place in campus: towards the internationalization of Universiti Putra Malaysia
title_short Transnational students' attachment to place in campus: towards the internationalization of Universiti Putra Malaysia
title_sort transnational students' attachment to place in campus: towards the internationalization of universiti putra malaysia
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15923/
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