Why overseas? Vietnamese doctoral students’ motivations for a doctoral study abroad

IF 1.1 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
A. Phan
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Abstract

This article reports a study that investigated Vietnamese doctoral students’ motivations to pursue their doctoral study outside their home country. Analyses of in-depth interviews with 19 participants revealed what made a PhD abroad imaginable to them, thus revealing the motivational factors for Vietnamese doctoral students to sojourn for their academic undertakings, including professional requirement and academic development, life enrichment and self-exploration, prior transnational experiences and funding availability. Using the conceptual tools of imagination and capacity to aspire, the study highlights not only the capacity to navigate the horizons of aspirations of Vietnamese doctoral students but also the unevenness of imaginative spaces among them. Going beyond the push-pull framework or the traditional binary of external-internal motivation, this study, with a particular focus on imagination and aspiration, emphasises the capacity of the doctoral students and the socio-cultural context that made a PhD abroad a possibility for them. It further illuminates how their capacity to aspire was different from one another, leading to dissimilarities in their imaginative space and maps of horizons.
为什么海外?越南博士生出国读博的动机
本文报道了一项调查越南博士生出国攻读博士的动机的研究。对19名参与者的深入访谈分析揭示了是什么让他们可以想象出国攻读博士学位,从而揭示了越南博士生为学术事业而旅居的动机因素,包括专业要求和学术发展、生活丰富和自我探索、先前的跨国经历和资金可用性。该研究利用想象力和渴望能力的概念工具,不仅突出了越南博士生驾驭渴望视野的能力,还突出了他们之间想象力空间的不均衡性。这项研究超越了推拉框架或传统的外部-内部动机的二元结构,特别关注想象力和抱负,强调了博士生的能力和使他们有可能在国外攻读博士学位的社会文化背景。它进一步阐明了他们的渴望能力是如何不同的,导致他们的想象力空间和视野地图不同。
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Journal of Adult and Continuing Education
Journal of Adult and Continuing Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
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4.30
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26
期刊介绍: The journal is peer-reviewed and focuses on international and national issues and is aimed at researchers, professionals and practitioners in all sectors. It publishes both research articles and reflections on policy and practice, and offers opportunities for all concerned with post-compulsory education to make contributions to debate.
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