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Research on cross-cultural adaptation and educational management of international students in China: Case of African students at Zhejiang Normal University

With the closer China-Africa relations and the vigorous development of the country’s education for international students, the number of African students studying in China has surged, and the difficulty of education management in colleges and universities has increased accordingly. Many scholars hav...

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Autores principales: Di, Weifeng, Zhang, Sijia, Lian, Xing, Oubibi, Mohamed, Li, Dana, Ding, Lisi, Zhang, Zhujia, Yang, Tianping
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9619094/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36324773
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1009658
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author Di, Weifeng
Zhang, Sijia
Lian, Xing
Oubibi, Mohamed
Li, Dana
Ding, Lisi
Zhang, Zhujia
Yang, Tianping
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Lian, Xing
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description With the closer China-Africa relations and the vigorous development of the country’s education for international students, the number of African students studying in China has surged, and the difficulty of education management in colleges and universities has increased accordingly. Many scholars have conducted in-depth research on the educational management model, educational management policy, educational management status and optimization strategy for international students in China. However, the existing research dimensions are relatively single and lack of comprehensiveness. This study takes the educational management practice of African international students in Zhejiang Normal University as the breakthrough point and introduces the investigation of international students’ cross-cultural adaptability. A sample of African students coming to China is selected from Zhejiang Normal University (n = 475). This study designs a questionnaire based on the dimensions of enrollment management, teaching management, and daily management combined with the teaching satisfaction, cultural adaptability, and emotional attitude of African international students in China. After data analysis with SPSS 26 and AMOS 24, it can be found that enrollment management is significantly positively correlated with the time in China. Teaching management is positively correlated with age, educational background and it is positively correlated with enrollment management. Differentiated management is positively correlated with Chinese proficiency, and it is positively correlated with enrollment management and teaching management. The recognition of management staffs is positively correlated with enrollment management, teaching management and differentiated management. Teaching satisfaction is positively correlated with enrollment management, teaching management, differentiation management and recognition of management staffs. Cultural adaptation is significantly positively correlated with Chinese proficiency, enrollment management, teaching management, differentiated management, recognition of management staffs, and teaching satisfaction. Emotions and attitudes are significantly positively correlated with age and time in China, and it is positively correlated with teaching management, the recognition of management staffs, teaching satisfaction, cultural adaptation, and academic qualifications. Through in-depth analysis, it can be found that there exist problems in the current education management of African international students, such as insufficient enrollment channels, incomplete enrollment promotion, unreasonable curriculum settings, inadequate implementation of the tutorial system, and excessive differentiated management. In order to further improve the quality of educational management for African international students in China, countermeasures such as adhering to the idea of “a community with a shared future for mankind” to optimize the enrollment management; advocating the value of “harmony but different” to improve teaching management; implementing the “people-oriented” service tenet to improve daily management; deepening community value identification to promote students’ cross-cultural adaptation should be implemented.
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spelling pubmed-96190942022-11-01 Research on cross-cultural adaptation and educational management of international students in China: Case of African students at Zhejiang Normal University Di, Weifeng Zhang, Sijia Lian, Xing Oubibi, Mohamed Li, Dana Ding, Lisi Zhang, Zhujia Yang, Tianping Front Psychol Psychology With the closer China-Africa relations and the vigorous development of the country’s education for international students, the number of African students studying in China has surged, and the difficulty of education management in colleges and universities has increased accordingly. Many scholars have conducted in-depth research on the educational management model, educational management policy, educational management status and optimization strategy for international students in China. However, the existing research dimensions are relatively single and lack of comprehensiveness. This study takes the educational management practice of African international students in Zhejiang Normal University as the breakthrough point and introduces the investigation of international students’ cross-cultural adaptability. A sample of African students coming to China is selected from Zhejiang Normal University (n = 475). This study designs a questionnaire based on the dimensions of enrollment management, teaching management, and daily management combined with the teaching satisfaction, cultural adaptability, and emotional attitude of African international students in China. After data analysis with SPSS 26 and AMOS 24, it can be found that enrollment management is significantly positively correlated with the time in China. Teaching management is positively correlated with age, educational background and it is positively correlated with enrollment management. Differentiated management is positively correlated with Chinese proficiency, and it is positively correlated with enrollment management and teaching management. The recognition of management staffs is positively correlated with enrollment management, teaching management and differentiated management. Teaching satisfaction is positively correlated with enrollment management, teaching management, differentiation management and recognition of management staffs. Cultural adaptation is significantly positively correlated with Chinese proficiency, enrollment management, teaching management, differentiated management, recognition of management staffs, and teaching satisfaction. Emotions and attitudes are significantly positively correlated with age and time in China, and it is positively correlated with teaching management, the recognition of management staffs, teaching satisfaction, cultural adaptation, and academic qualifications. Through in-depth analysis, it can be found that there exist problems in the current education management of African international students, such as insufficient enrollment channels, incomplete enrollment promotion, unreasonable curriculum settings, inadequate implementation of the tutorial system, and excessive differentiated management. In order to further improve the quality of educational management for African international students in China, countermeasures such as adhering to the idea of “a community with a shared future for mankind” to optimize the enrollment management; advocating the value of “harmony but different” to improve teaching management; implementing the “people-oriented” service tenet to improve daily management; deepening community value identification to promote students’ cross-cultural adaptation should be implemented. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9619094/ /pubmed/36324773 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1009658 Text en Copyright © 2022 Di, Zhang, Lian, Oubibi, Li, Ding, Zhang and Yang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Di, Weifeng
Zhang, Sijia
Lian, Xing
Oubibi, Mohamed
Li, Dana
Ding, Lisi
Zhang, Zhujia
Yang, Tianping
Research on cross-cultural adaptation and educational management of international students in China: Case of African students at Zhejiang Normal University
title Research on cross-cultural adaptation and educational management of international students in China: Case of African students at Zhejiang Normal University
title_full Research on cross-cultural adaptation and educational management of international students in China: Case of African students at Zhejiang Normal University
title_fullStr Research on cross-cultural adaptation and educational management of international students in China: Case of African students at Zhejiang Normal University
title_full_unstemmed Research on cross-cultural adaptation and educational management of international students in China: Case of African students at Zhejiang Normal University
title_short Research on cross-cultural adaptation and educational management of international students in China: Case of African students at Zhejiang Normal University
title_sort research on cross-cultural adaptation and educational management of international students in china: case of african students at zhejiang normal university
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9619094/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36324773
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1009658
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