The article draws upon Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and cultural capital to provide an in-depth analysis of the gender differences in students’ motivation for undertaking postgraduate (PG) education in Mainland China. It reports an in-depth case study comprising 381 questionnaires and 30 semi-structured interviews. The quantitative data show that students who enter PG education do so chiefly to improve employment prospects. The qualitative data, while supporting the quantitative results, show students’ motives were also gender-differentiated and how they interact with students’ family habitus
grantor: University of TorontoThis survey study of Chinese university students' aspiration...
International educational mobility is often perceived as westward mobility for non-English speaking ...
Using the 2005 placement data from two separate colleges, this paper studies graduate job allocation...
The article draws upon Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and cultural capital to provide an in-depth an...
The present qualitative study analyzes how cultural capital, gender, class, and family involvement i...
Previous studies of students’ higher education choices have been mainly examined in the US, European...
This study aimed to investigate the motivation of whether pursuing postgraduate study or not among C...
The paper draws on findings from a case study which explored factors influencing students’ decision-...
Joining the global trend of internationalisation, higher education in the Chinese context has witnes...
In the wider context of national growth and investment in higher education in China, more mature stu...
This article complicates dominant instrumentalist understandings of international student motivation...
In the harsh Chinese graduate labor market, urban, middle-class students continue to outpace those f...
This study investigates the gender differences in final year undergraduates’ employment expectations...
There are three objectives for this study to explore. (1) The factors that influence mainland Chines...
Over the past few decades, there has been a rise in the number of Chinese women studying for PhDs, b...
grantor: University of TorontoThis survey study of Chinese university students' aspiration...
International educational mobility is often perceived as westward mobility for non-English speaking ...
Using the 2005 placement data from two separate colleges, this paper studies graduate job allocation...
The article draws upon Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and cultural capital to provide an in-depth an...
The present qualitative study analyzes how cultural capital, gender, class, and family involvement i...
Previous studies of students’ higher education choices have been mainly examined in the US, European...
This study aimed to investigate the motivation of whether pursuing postgraduate study or not among C...
The paper draws on findings from a case study which explored factors influencing students’ decision-...
Joining the global trend of internationalisation, higher education in the Chinese context has witnes...
In the wider context of national growth and investment in higher education in China, more mature stu...
This article complicates dominant instrumentalist understandings of international student motivation...
In the harsh Chinese graduate labor market, urban, middle-class students continue to outpace those f...
This study investigates the gender differences in final year undergraduates’ employment expectations...
There are three objectives for this study to explore. (1) The factors that influence mainland Chines...
Over the past few decades, there has been a rise in the number of Chinese women studying for PhDs, b...
grantor: University of TorontoThis survey study of Chinese university students' aspiration...
International educational mobility is often perceived as westward mobility for non-English speaking ...
Using the 2005 placement data from two separate colleges, this paper studies graduate job allocation...