Academics International Teaching Journeys

A valuable insight into how diverse, and vividly complex are the lives, expectations and negotiated realities of international academics ... The stories shed light on the complexities of the process and the state of transition, adaptation and negotiation; as well as the associated sense of vulnerability and otherness in relation to the expectations and drivers of their institutions, and of course, the HE sector. * Journal of Pedagogic Development * A brilliant collection of theoretically grounded personal experiences of teaching in foreign higher educational environments. A must read for researchers and academics in Higher Education. * Felix Maringe, Professor, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa * In this stimulating book social science and peoples lives converge. Cross-border mobility has now reached such a scale as to continually enrich the education systems that people move between. This aggregated transformation is made up of many smaller bio-transformations, every one of them distinctive and enriching of others, as Academics Individual Teaching Journeys shows us. * Simon Marginson, Director of the ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education, University College London, UK *

Anesa Hosein is Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at the University of Surrey, UK. Namrata Rao is Principal Lecturer in Education Studies at Liverpool Hope University, UK. Chloe Shu-Hua Yeh is Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at Bath Spa University, UK. Ian M. Kinchin is Professor in Higher Education, University of Surrey, UK.

List of Illustrations Foreword, Ruth Hayhoe (University of Toronto, Canada) Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. Academics International Teaching Journeys: An Introduction, Namrata Rao (Liverpool Hope University, UK), Chloe Shu-Hua Yeh (Bath Spa University, UK), Anesa Hosein (University of Surrey, UK) and Ian M. Kinchin (University of Surrey, UK) 2. Contextualising the New Teaching Environment, Erik Blair (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK) 3. Complexities and Cross-Cultural Challenges of Foreign Lecturers: Personal Narrative Histories in Cameroon and England, Henry Asei Kum (Liverpool Hope University, UK) 4. Cultural Shock of an International Academic: From a Liberal Arts Education in the USA to a Post-1992 University in the UK, Jennifer Chung (St Mary's University, Twickenham, UK) 5. Being Women and Being Migrant: Confronting Double Strangeness in UK Higher Education, Thushari Welikala (Kings College London, UK) 6. Overcoming Doubts in an Intercultural Academic Journey: From the East to the West, Chloe Shu-Hua Yeh (Bath Spa University, UK) 7. Negotiating Transitions in Academic Identity: Teacher or Researcher? Tanya Hathaway (University of New England, Armidale, Australia) 8. Examining Pedagogical Autonomy in International Higher Education Systems, Anesa Hosein (University of Surrey, UK) 9. Pedagogy of Academic Mobility, Judith Enriquez-Gibson (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) 10. Towards a Pedagogy of Connection: Home Academic not at Home, Maja Jankowska (University of Bedfordshire, UK) 11. Continuing the International Academics Teaching Journey, Sheila Trahar (University of Bristol, UK) Index