教育ネットワークセンター年報, 2017, 17, 25 -27（研究報告｜プロジェクト研究）課題名International Student Mobility in East Asia: A New Model?

研究代表者名陳思聡 （教育ネットワークセンター）

研究組織等

清水禎文 （教育設計評価）
田中光晴 （高度教養教育学生支援機構・入試センター）
CHEN, Robin Jung-Cheng (College of Education, National Chengchi
University)

研究目的と方法

Higher Education in East Asia experienced internationalization and, more recently,regionalization in the last three decades. How to analyze and understand thechanges from the perspectives of various stakeholders such as higher education
policymakers, institutions and students has become a key overall question in
research on contemporary higher education. This study takes the case of Asia
Education Leader Course (AELC) as a window into the changes brought about by
higher education internationalization and regionalization.
The study places a particular focus on the changes in study mobility. The
traditional model of international student mobility under the world-system theory
discusses that study mobility is expected, and indeed well supported by empiricalevidence, to follow the pattern of from core to periphery countries primarily
defined in economic terms. This study, however, hypothesizes that international
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hasgonebeyond

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economically-defined peripheral-to-core model to be horizontal, multilateral anddynamic.
This study takes the case of the AELC to test the hypothesis. It interviews AELC
students with questions including:(1) Why did you join the AELC, or what was your intention to join the AELC, orwhat motivated you to join the AELC?
(2) What do you think are the differences of the AELC from other overseas study
programmes?
(3) Why did you join this summer/winter course but not that summer/wintercourse?

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(5) What experience in the AELC do you now value most?
(6) Do you think the AELC experience is helpful for your future career?
(7) What is your suggestion for a better AELC?
研究経過2016.7-8: Interview preparation
2016.9-10: Five AELC students from Tohoku University interviewed
2016.10: Five AELC students from Nanjing Normal University interviewed
2016.9-11: Two in-depth interviews and one focus group of AELC joint certificate
holders in National Chengchi University conducted2016.12-2017.1: Interview data transcribed2017.1: Data analysis started
2017.2: A paper using part of the data from the project completed
研究成果(1) The study discusses that the AELC as a bottom-up, non-economic-motivatedand function-driven program with multilateral-partnership is distinctive from themain patterns of cross-border higher education initiatives in East Asia. With theprogram as evidence, it suggests that we need a more diverse understanding ofapproaches to regionalizing higher education in East Asia.
(2) Preliminary analysis results support the hypothesis in this study. Culturalexperience and exchange was a driving force behind students’ participation in theAELC, which seemed not to be influenced by economic accounts sitting at theheart of the traditional periphery-to-core mobility pattern.
課題

A limited number of AELC students were available for interview, partly because
many, particularly those who joined at the start of the program, had graduated, andpartly because the interview data collection period was short. We will continue tointerview current AELC students, and try to reach, firstly, students in partner
institutes not yet covered so far in order to compare the motivations andexperiences of students from different partner institutes, and secondly, student
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work and career design.

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