China’s internationalized higher education during Covid-19: Collective student autoethnography
Authors
Peters, Michael AWang, Hejia
Ogunniran, Moses Oladele
Huang, Yingying
Green, Benjamin
Chunga, Jasmin Omary
Quainoo, Eric Atta
Ren, Zhihong
Hollings, Stephanie
Mou, Chunxiao
Khomera, Sphiwe Wezzie
Zhang, Man
Zhou, Shuchen
Laimeche, Amina
Zheng, Wener
Xu, Rulin
Jackson, Liz
Hayes, Sarah
Issue Date
2020-05-08
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This article presents 15 autoethnographical texts detailing student experiences at Beijing Normal University in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Contributions have been collected over 6 weeks between 15 February and 1 April 2020, edited by Hejia Wang (assisted by Moses Oladele Ogunniran and Yingying Huang), and supervised by Michael Peters. Through shared in-depth empirical feelings and representations from a wide variety of cultural, historical, and social contexts, the article outlines an answer to the question: How do students, connected virtually but separated physically in an internationalized university, deal with disruption brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic? Student testimonies offer reflections on Covid-19 and Chinese international education, experiences of online teaching and learning, reflections on university coping mechanisms, an account of realities and feelings related to changes in academic life, and discussions on coping strategies in Chinese international higher education. Contributors expose their individual feelings, effects, benefits, challenges, and risk management strategies. Collected at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, these testimonies are unable to offer systemic answers to challenges facing the whole world. However, these experiences and feelings will provide important inputs to global discussions about the future of the world, after Covid-19.Citation
Peters, M.A., Wang, H., Ogunniran, M.O. et al. (2020) China’s internationalized higher education during Covid-19: Collective student autoethnography, Postdigital Science and Education (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-020-00128-1Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal
Postdigital Science and EducationAdditional Links
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs42438-020-00128-1Type
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This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Springer in Postdigital Science and Education on 08/05/2020, available online: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-020-00128-1 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.ISSN
2524-4868ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1007/s42438-020-00128-1
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