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25 Mar 2025 • Journal Article • Citizenship Studies
Settling Shenzhen and Hong Kong cross-border students' identity predicament: towards a new form of regional citizenship
AbstractNational-level processes have been given a central position in the study of borders, citizenship, and mobility. There are reasons for such ‘methodological nationalism’ as people’s movement is usually international. The phenomenon of cross-border students (CBS) between Shenzhen and Hong Kong presents a unique case because the border between these two regions does not
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20 Sep 2024 • Journal Article • Modern China
“There Is Only One Childhood”: A New Interpretation of China’s “Crackdown” on Education Companies
AbstractIn recent years, the Chinese government has implemented a series of dramatic crackdowns on various business sectors in China, one of which, beginning in July 2021, targeted the private tutoring industry. This article offers a new interpretation of this crackdown on private education companies, arguing that it is part of a new comprehensive education policy called the
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25 Mar 2024 • Journal Article • Communications of the ACM
Using Data Science to Predict How Rituals Will Evolve
AbstractOrit Hazzan and Avital Binah-Pollak consider how the data science perspective helped to predict the transformation of Israel’s 2023 social protest. Think about your most personal ritualistic event—walking your dog, grocery shopping, or a weekly meetup with your friends. Most likely it takes place in the same place, close to home, with the same people, and at a certain
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5 Jan 2024 • Journal Article • Education and Information Technologies
Anthropological thinking in data science education: Thinking within context
AbstractThe significance of ethics in data science research has attracted considerable attention in recent years. While there is widespread agreement on the importance of teaching ethics within computing contexts, there is no clear method for its implementation and assessment. Studies focusing on methods for integrating ethics into data science courses reveal that students tend
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23 Aug 2023 • Journal Article • Journal of Intelligence
Metacognitive Effort Regulation across Cultures
AbstractSuccess in cognitive tasks is associated with effort regulation and motivation. We employed the meta-reasoning approach to investigate metacognitive monitoring accuracy and effort regulation in problem solving across cultures. Adults from China, from Israel, and from Europe and North America (for simplicity: “Western countries”) solved nonverbal problems and rated their
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May 2023 • Journal Article • Higher Education Studies
Science and Engineering Education as an Anchor in the Midst of a Changing World: The Case of Covid-19
AbstractThe discourse on science and engineering education focuses on ways of preparing students, as future employees, and global citizens. While this discourse deals with the purposes and characteristics of engineering education, it tends to neglect the students' perspectives. The purpose of this study was to provide insights into the perspectives of undergraduate science and
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20 Sep 2022 • Journal Article • European Journal of Engineering Education
COVID-19 and student stress: the effectiveness of a course on coping with stress for science and engineering undergraduate students
AbstractPrevalence of depression, anxiety, and stress among university students worldwide is high. In most cases, stress intervention is individual-based and involves small groups for relatively short periods. New evidence shows that stress increased during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2021), when learning moved to online formats and social distancing was enforced worldwide. Our
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7 Jan 2022 • Journal Article • China Information
Negotiating identity by transnational Chinese students during COVID-19
AbstractFor some years now, there has been an increase in the number of Chinese students travelling abroad to pursue higher education. The outbreak of COVID-19 has created new challenges for international students around the world. Based on an analysis of online forums during the pandemic (January–July 2020), we focus on the challenges Chinese transnational students have been
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2020 • Posting • Stanford Tomorrow's Professor Postings
Exposure to Research in Science and Engineering Undergraduate Studies
AbstractThis posting continues the discussion about the integration of research in undergraduate programs published in TP Msg. #1785 “Course-Based Undergraduate Research - Crazy Observations, Audacious Questions”, offering a different approach for exposing undergraduate student to research. While the TP Msg. #1785 discusses course-based research, which is the inclusion of
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14 Aug 2019
Cross-border Marriages and Mobility: Female Chinese Migrants and Hong Kong Men
AbstractCross-border Marriages and Mobility: Female Chinese Migrants and Hong Kong Men focuses on cross-border marriages between mainland Chinese women and Hong Kong men, a phenomenon which is of critical importance to the transformation of Hong Kong. By examining the women’s motivations for migration and lived experiences in relation to the discursive, political, economic, and
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