- Title
- Ethics in education: Chinese learner and post-Enron ethics (editorial)
- Creator
- Saravanamuthu, Kala; Tinker, Tony
- Relation
- Critical Perspectives on Accounting Vol. 19, Issue 2, p. 129-137
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2006.09.005
- Publisher
- Academic Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- This is the third in a series of special issues on tertiary education and academic life (Saravanamuthu and Filling, 2004; Saravanamuthu and Tinker, 2002). This issue touches on two aspects of ethical education. The first section engages with the dilemma of educating (overseas) Chinese students in universities in the UK, USA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and parts of Western Europe: the Chinese Learner. The second part of the issue reviews ethics in education in the post-Enron environment. The genesis of Chinese Learner research is often attributed to John Biggs and David Watkins, University of Hong Kong. John has long retired, and David continues to lead the research through his doctoral students. Even though Chinese Learner studies originated in the Educational Psychology enclave, it has now permeated into other discipline areas. Theories of learning methods and techniques are inherently contestable, even before considering their cultural complications. The Chinese Learner literature touches on a number of problematic issues, beginning with the identity of this student. Any attempt to associate the Chinese Learner with a specific culture, nation, personality trait and/or learning approach immediately lends itself to criticisms of over-generalisation and stereotyping. This issue engages with the multi-layered realities of the Chinese student market, which the Corporate University (following Saravanamuthu and Tinker, 2002) plays down as it eagerly collects full-fees for its depleted coffers.
- Subject
- tertiary education; academic life; ethical education; Chinese students
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/803682
- Identifier
- uon:6472
- Identifier
- ISSN:1045-2354
- Language
- eng
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