A review of the acculturation experiences of international students     

Rachel A. Smith  Nigar G. Khawaja 《Int J Intercult Relat》2011,35(6):699-713

Universities in Western countries host a substantial number of international students. These students bring a range of benefits to the host country and in return the students gain higher education. However, the choice to study overseas in Western countries may present many challenges for the international student including the experience of acculturative stress and difficulties with adjustment to the environment of the host country. The present paper provides a review of current acculturation models as applied to international students. Given that these models have typically been empirically tested on migrant and refugee populations only, the review aims to determine the extent to which these models characterise the acculturation experience of international students. Literature pertaining to salient variables from acculturation models was explored including acculturative stressors encountered frequently by international students (e.g., language barriers, educational difficulties, loneliness, discrimination, and practical problems associated with changing environments). Further discussed was the subsequent impact of social support and coping strategies on acculturative stress experienced by international students, and the psychological and sociocultural adaptation of this student group. This review found that the international student literature provides support for some aspects of the acculturation models discussed; however, further investigation of these models is needed to determine their accuracy in describing the acculturation of international students. Additionally, prominent acculturation models portray the host society as an important factor influencing international students’ acculturation, which suggests the need for future intervention.  相似文献   

Fifty years of information management research: A conceptual structure analysis using structural topic modeling     

《International Journal of Information Management》2021

Information management is the management of organizational processes, technologies, and people which collectively create, acquire, integrate, organize, process, store, disseminate, access, and dispose of the information. Information management is a vast, multi-disciplinary domain that syndicates various subdomains and perfectly intermingles with other domains. This study aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the information management domain from 1970 to 2019. Drawing upon the methodology from statistical text analysis research, this study summarizes the evolution of knowledge in this domain by examining the publication trends as per authors, institutions, countries, etc. Further, this study proposes a probabilistic generative model based on structural topic modeling to understand and extract the latent themes from the research articles related to information management. Furthermore, this study graphically visualizes the variations in the topic prevalences over the period of 1970 to 2019. The results highlight that the most common themes are data management, knowledge management, environmental management, project management, service management, and mobile and web management. The findings also identify themes such as knowledge management, environmental management, project management, and social communication as academic hotspots for future research.  相似文献   

宁夏农村居民消费和收入变迁关系的动态分析     

刘慧 《安徽广播电视大学学报》2014,(3):31-34

采用宁夏1978-2012年的数据,运用协整理论和状态空间模型,对宁夏农村居民消费和收入之间关系及其变迁过程进行实证研究,结果表明：改革开放以来,宁夏农村居民消费与收入之间存在以1996年为界限的两段式均衡关系。实证结论启示,要解决农村居民消费不足的问题,不仅需要制定短期政策,更需要建立长效机制。  相似文献   

先进典型宣传的时代困境及其出路     

祝小茗 《广东广播电视大学学报》2014,(2):43-47

典型宣传作为我党政治工作中一道独特的实践图景,其承载着巨大的时代意涵:一方面它是引领人民群众发展进步的"助推器"与"方向盘",另一方面则是展现正面形象与弘扬社会主旋律的"重要窗口"。在多元价值并存的时代,典型宣传面临着巨大的冲击与挑战,其中既有社会大环境影响,更有宣传主体自身的原因。因此,维护典型人物宣传的严肃性与可信性,提升宣传内容的可读性与生动性,关注受众群体的心理感受和加强不同媒体间的通力合作,是提升先进典型宣传效果的实践路径。  相似文献   

沙溪斑岩铜矿三维建模及铜品位空间变异研究     

袁峰  陈庆  李晓晖  张明明  贾蔡 《六安师专学报》2014,(2):107-110

本文针对沙溪斑岩铜矿床,首先构建了主矿体的三维实体模型,之后以此作为约束对主矿体内部的铜品位数值开展空间变异研究分析。运用地质统计学方法,分别对主矿体走向、倾斜和厚度方向上的实验变异函数进行了理论模型拟合。拟合结果显示,铜品位在矿体走向方向上具有最好的连续性,较高的块金常数则显示出铜品位在较小范围内有很大的随机性,进而建议矿山提高矿区的勘探密度,进一步对矿体及品位的分布进行控制。  相似文献   

英语专业学生思辨能力培养研究     

李碧云 《渭南师范学院学报》2014,(4):40-43

由于英语学科特有的学习规律及教师教学和学生学习理念方面存在的偏差,导致了英语专业学生思辨能力的缺失,直接影响学生分析和解决问题能力的提高,抑制其创新能力的发展。这种现状已经引起了一些英语研究者的关注。互动教学是培养学生思辨能力的方法之一。  相似文献   

Learning to lead: a practitioner perspective     

Maddy McMaster 《Journal of Higher Education Policy & Management》2014,36(4):430-439

This reflective essay presents a personal account of experiences and models that have shaped the development of the author as a leader in tertiary education. It is presented from the perspective of a practitioner whose career has led her through academic and administrative roles in Australian and UK institutions into her current position as academic registrar of a large, global university. The author concludes that, in learning to lead, the ideas that have been influential and which she has integrated into her practice are those that resonate with her own understanding of leadership and which are consistent with her values.  相似文献   

不同分布下CPI模型比较与预测     

高登蕊  何慧  冯长焕 《内江师范学院学报》2014,(4):7-9,22

应用不同分布下的ARCH类模型对1990-2013年的居民消费价格指数建立模型,对其不同分布下的ARCH类模型进行对比分析.分别在正态分布,T分布,广义误差分布下建立了ARCH模型,发现在不同的分布下其ARCH模型有不同的预测效果,得到了在广义误差分布下建立的GARCH模型最为精确.  相似文献   

技术意识与对外汉语教学模式创建     

郑艳群 《暨南大学华文学院学报》2014,(2):14-18

本文对技术相关的汉语教学模式作了简要回顾,分析了此类教学模式产生的内在动因,并对其应如何创建作了展望。同时,本文指出技术意识下的汉语教学模式创建,应关注各类技术应用,同时要关注新形势下汉语教师角色和发展。  相似文献   

“两型”课堂理论研究及实践探索     

曾艳玲  周大明  罗大红 《当代教育论坛》2014,(6):89-97

“两型”课堂是指“低耗高质”“和谐共长”的课堂,研究假设理论为“教学共振”原理和“教育生态学”原理,所持观点为“教学共振”原理的运用是实现教学低耗高效的良好途径,“教育生态学”原理的运用能实现教学双主体的和谐共长。实践证明,“两型”学科课堂不同课型的教学模式和实施策略,可以改变缺乏生命活力的课堂教学现状,提高课堂教学效益,实现师生教学相长的理想状态。  相似文献