Culture and country choice of international students: evidence from Ghana     

Mahmoud Abdulai Mahmoud  Elizabeth Oppong  Daniel Twimasie  Mohammed Muniru Husseini  Adelaide Naa Amerley Kastner  Moses Oppong 《Journal of Marketing for HIGHER EDUCATION》2020,30(1):105-124

ABSTRACT

This study seeks to examine the influence of the cultural elements on international students’ country choice. It also examines whether individual values moderate the influence of cultural elements on the country choice of international students. Drawing upon a sample size of 223, the data was analysed using structural equation modelling technique. Among the five cultural elements, education, language and social institutions were found to have a positive significant influence on the international student’s country choice. When moderated by individual values education was found to be the only key significant value to international students when selecting a country to further their education. The cultural elements should be given much attention by marketers, government and managers of academic institutions. An improvement in the standards of education in developing countries would attract more students from developed countries.  相似文献   

Does religion matter? Italians’ responses towards Muslim and Christian Arab immigrants as a function of their acculturation preferences     

《Int J Intercult Relat》2020

A 2 × 2 × 2 experiment examined the role of immigrants’ religion and perceived acculturation strategy on majority members’ attitudes. Acculturation strategies were manipulated along the two dimensions of contact and culture maintenance. Italian majority members (N = 247) read fictitious but seemingly real interviews with Arab immigrants, in which the immigrants’ religion (Muslim vs. Christian) and acculturation preferences (desire for contact and for culture maintenance) were manipulated. MANOVA showed a main effect of contact: majority members associated immigrants who were perceived to favour contact with more positive attitudes, empathy, trust, positive stereotypes and metastereotypes, and lower levels of threat. MANOVA also showed a main effect of culture maintenance: when immigrants were perceived to abandon their culture, majority members reported lower levels of symbolic threat and greater empathy towards them. A significant Religion x Culture maintenance interaction effect emerged on majority members’ stereotypes and contact intentions: Muslim immigrants who were perceived to abandon their heritage culture elicited more favourable responses than Muslim immigrants who were perceived to maintain their heritage culture. Taken together, these findings suggest that desire for intergroup contact amongst immigrants, independently of their religion, can promote harmonious intergroup relations with the majority group.  相似文献   

Rethinking participation in the Aarhus as European Capital of Culture 2017 project     

Leila Jancovich  Louise Ejgod Hansen 《Cultural Trends》2018,27(3):173-186

This paper examines the relationship between cultural participation and regional development with reference to the European Capital of Culture in 2017. From the bidding stage, Aarhus 2017 claimed it put “participation” at the heart of its strategic plans, through consultation at roadshows and exhibitions. In addition, it aspired to use culture as a catalyst for development not only in the city of Aarhus but across the region of Central Denmark. This paper, therefore, examines how participation is defined and implemented to address regional development in the Aarhus 2017 process through textual analysis of documentation from Aarhus 2017 and delivery partners as well as over 20 interviews with managers and participants involved in a range of 2017 projects. The paper argues against the common prioritisation of urban and professional cultural institutions and makes the case for decentralised cultural provision that supports both amateurs and professionals through a regional networked structure.  相似文献   

The role of student–university value alignment in international student acculturation in Australia     

《Int J Intercult Relat》2021

This study integrates acculturation and person–environment fit theories to investigate the role of student–university value alignment in international student cross-cultural adjustment to host universities in Victoria, Australia. The study used a mixed methods design with the quantitative data collected from a student survey and the qualitative data generated from interviews with university staff. Structural equation modelling and thematic analysis were employed to analyse the quantitative and qualitative data respectively. The results of the study indicated that international students who possess similar values to their host university, adjust better, both psychologically and socially into the university environment as well as feel satisfaction with their host university. The study also confirmed the mediating role of international student social adjustment in the relationship between student–university value fit and student overall satisfaction with their host university. The findings highlight the key role of international student–university value alignment in contributing to the success of students’ cross-cultural adjustment to the new cultural environment they experience. Therefore, universities should constantly communicate and deliver on their values during both the promotional stage of international student recruitment and the student journey with the university.  相似文献   

安徽动漫衍生品的地域性色彩表达     

徐婷 《池州学院学报》2020,(1):107-110

不同的地域差异呈现出不同的文化生态,地域文化所具有的独特性将是动漫衍生品在同行业竞争中的优势.本文从整个安徽文化的脉络思考出发,着重深挖提炼安徽传统民间文化中典型的视觉元素,为开发具有安徽地域文化特色、富有创新意识的衍生产品提出思路,使安徽动漫衍生品的开发步入良性循环的发展格局.  相似文献   

Where I’m from? Third Culture Kids about their cultural identity shifts and belonging     

《Int J Intercult Relat》2021

This study explored the affect of Third Culture Kids (TCKs) towards their home and host culture(s) and how this affect may indicate possible cultural identity shifts as distinguished in Sussman’s (2000) cultural identity shift model. To this end, the method of poetic inquiry was used. The poems were concerned with TCKs’ affective experiences (Prendergast, 2009). We also investigated whether TCKs described their belonging in terms of personal relationships rather than in terms of geographical locations.Twenty TCKs, ranging in age from 26 to 70 years and from five ‘home cultures’, expressed their early cross-cultural experiences through the free verse poem of “Where I’m from”. A mixed method approach of qualitative and quantitative research was applied, by combining poetic inquiry using a free verse poem format and clustering these data by means of coding in Atlas.ti. TCKs’ poems were analyzed using belonging, affect, and practices-food-nature-events as key codes.Findings revealed that TCKs expressed stronger positive affect towards their host cultures than towards their ‘home’ cultures, indicating a subtractive cultural identity shift. We also found that TCKs defined their belonging more in terms of personal relationships than in terms of geographical locations. This study shows that TCKs’ sense of belonging seems more related to the question who than where I am from.  相似文献   

学校制度文化建设的缺失与对策     

春燕 《河西学院学报》2011,27(4):119-123

本文选择从文化的视角来研究学校制度的建设,认为教育管理者要保证学校制度良好运行,仅仅依靠外在约束是不够的,还需要道德等非理性因素的辅助作用,既要用合理的规章制度规范人,又不是简单机械强迫的管理,而是通过调动人的积极性,使刚性的制度内化成组织成员的行为准则,在学校制度的制定和实施中贯注仁道、平等、正义等人文色彩,赋予它一定的文化关照。期望本研究可以为学校管理者建设和完善学校制度文化提供理论基础,拓宽教育管理者的视野,以促进学校教育的和谐发展。  相似文献   

唯情 ,尚情——透视湖南乡土文学反映的湘楚文化特征陈冬梅     

陈冬梅 《伊犁教育学院学报》2004,(3)

湘楚文化浓郁的原始气息,不乏诗意的野性状态,表现出了更多的非道德化倾向,充满了自然性、原始性。湖南人有崇情尚性的性格特征和生活氛围。对两情欢娱的的赞赏,对情爱开放自由的宽容,对女性的敬重,极具奇幻浪漫色彩的爱情生活,情歌在日常生活中的巨大艺术魅力等等,却是湘楚文化的集中体现,是众多乡土文学作家乐于表现的主题,寻着沈从文、周立波等一批湖南乡土文学作家的创作踪迹,我们可以透视出这一具体特征。  相似文献   

析孙中山与陈独秀对传统文化认识的歧异     

杨振华 《新乡师范高等专科学校学报》2001,15(3):16-19

孙中山与陈独秀对新文化运动有不同的态度 ,这是源于他们对中国传统文化的认识不同。陈独秀要彻底否定儒家思想、传统伦理道德和中国文学艺术 ,甚至主张废汉字 ;孙中山则主张继承、改造传统文化 ,总体上对儒家思想、传统伦理道德和中国文化艺术持肯定的态度 ,并且十分尊孔 ,反对废汉字  相似文献   

高校思想政治教育“以文化人”时代价值及实现路径     

林增辉 《林区教学》2021,(3)

党的十八大以来,习近平总书记深刻阐明了高校思想政治教育“以文化人”的重要意义,提出一系列新观点、新论述、新方法。高校思想政治教育“以文化人”既能彰显教育理念的生命力,又能发挥校园文化载体的熏陶力;既能提升中华民族优秀文化的向心力,又能提高中国特色社会主义文化的影响力。从思想引领、知行合一、育人水平、大学精神等角度,优化高校思想政治“以文化人”的实现路径。  相似文献