Multi-dimensional transitions of international students to higher education / edited by Divya Jindal-Snape and Bart Rienties.

Includes bibliographical references.

Understanding multiple and multi-dimensional transitions of international higher education students : setting the scene / Divya Jindal-Snape & Bart Rienties -- Parallel lives? : predicting and enhancing connectedness between international and domestic students / Alicia Bethel, Agnes Szabo & Colleen Ward -- Need for cognitive closure and acculturation of international students : recent findings and implications / Emiko S. Kashima & Giovanni Sadewo -- A social network perspective on ABC of international and host-national students / Bart Rienties -- Internationalisation and student identification : changing times / Alice McGarvey, Mark Murphy & Elaine Byrne -- "It's about your journey, it's not about uni" : Chinese international students learning outside the university / Gillian Skyrme -- Approaches to studying among international students from China / John T. E. Richardson & Haoda Sun -- Cultural and Academic Adjustment of International Students in China : a social network perspective / Kate Yue Zhang & Bart Rienties -- The multicultural experience : "cultural cliques" and the international student community / Suzanne E. Beech -- Adapting together : Chinese student experience and acceptance at an American university / Jenna Mittelmeier & John James Kennedy -- Teacher cognition and action in the design and implementation of intercultural group assessment in higher education / Paul J. Moore & Greg Hampton -- Adaptive and maladaptive emotions, behaviours and cognitions in the transition to university : the experience of international full degree students / Dirk T. Tempelaar & Pieternel S. Verhoeven -- Cultivating learning and social interaction in an international classroom through small group work : a quasi-experimental study / Novie Johan & Bart Rienties -- The transition processes of Erasmus students : motivation, social networks and academic performance / Neria Hernandez-Nanclares -- Multiple and multi-dimensional transitions of international students to higher education : a way forward / Bart Rienties & Divya Jindal-Snape.

This book is essential reading for professionals, students and policymakers and provides significant research insights to academics and researchers in the area of education, psychology and sociology.