Guanglun Michael Mu
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 313460 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Guanglun Michael Mu |
| NOMBRES | Guanglun Michael |
| APELLIDO | Mu |
| FIRMA | MU G M |
| AFILIACIONES | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8786-0956 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 101 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
A Systematic Literature Review of International Student Resilience
The study of international student resilience is of paramount psychological, political, and sociological significance. To date, however, no comprehensive mapping of the existing research on this topic has been undertaken. In response, our systematic literature review screened 5,635 publications retrieved from more than 80 databases and analyzed the 66 most relevant studies in-depth. We examined the contextual, conceptual, methodological, and empi…
Australian universities’ approaches to transnational higher education in China
Australian universities have been ambitious players in transnational higher education (TNHE) since the late 1980s. Yet there is little research based on large-scale evidence on their approaches to TNHE provision and the underlying logic behind these. Drawing on a self-created database, this study mapped 35 Australian universities’ approaches to their 587 TNHE partnerships with China. Through a Bourdieusian multiple correspondence analysis (MCA), …
Rethinking “counterintuitive” results and analogical reasoning
Since its online publication on 16 January 2025, Scapegoating international students for the rental crisis? Insights from large-scale evidence (2017–2024) in Australia has attracted significant attention and sparked widespread discussion. Among the responses is Kault’s critique, Erroneous regression used to associate higher international student numbers with lower rents . As our publication continues to generate impact, Kault’s critique is a welc…
Unequal Family Capital and Differentiated Social-Emotional Skills
Research shows the lifelong benefits of social-emotional skills while also raising concerns about their uneven distribution. Drawing on Bourdieu’s sociology, this study investigates how family resources shape the cultivation of children’s social-emotional skills in the Chinese context of rural-urban disparity. Using hierarchical and quantile regression on a sample of 1,453 eighth-grade children, we find a pronounced Matthew effect: compared to th…
Bourdieu, Language, and a Critique of English in Anglophone Academia
The problematics of language are integral to Bourdieu's biography and sociology. Brought up speaking Béarnese, Bourdieu was taunted at boarding school for his accent. While the young Bourdieu might not (fully) understand the power struggles and structures behind his linguistic sufferings at school, his reflexive and relational sociology forged over his academic career offered insightful analysis of the relations between linguistic (il)legitimacy,…
Quantifying Bourdieu in Educational Research
Pre-service teachers’ experiences of learning grammar to support EAL/D learners
In South Australia, pre-service teachers require a sound knowledge of grammar to deploy the Learning English: Achievement and Proficiency (LEAP) Levels, an assessment, monitoring and reporting tool designed to inform programming and planning for English as an Additional Language and Dialect (EAL/D) students. However, research shows that many pre-service teachers do not have strong Metalinguistic Awareness (MA). In response, a series of five video…
Scapegoating international students for the rental crisis? Insights from large-scale evidence (2017–2024) in Australia
Traditional international student destinations in the West are grappling with the thorny issue of rental crisis. In this challenging context for all, international students are caught within the political whims that blame them for the crisis. In this paper, we draw on large-scale evidence from Australia — including data collected at 76 time points from 2017 to 2023 at the national level and 79 time points from 2017 to 2024 at the capital city lev…
International student wellbeing and everyday community engagement experiences
Among Western destination countries, Australia has been highly successful in attracting international students. The wellbeing of these students is a critical issue for Australian universities and wider communities. Yet, little is known about international students’ perspectives on the relationship between their wellbeing and everyday engagement experiences with domestic students and staff on campus, and members of the local communities. This pape…
A Bourdieusian exploration of international students’ WeChatting experiences in China
Digital media is increasingly incorporated into international students’ learning journeys. However, few studies have explored international students’ use of WeChat in their learning journeys in China. Using Bourdieu’s thinking tools, this qualitative study explores 45 international students’ experiences of using WeChat in their everyday learning practices. Findings show that participants’ initial learning stage saw the emerging habitus of WeChatt…
Identity and Belonging among Chinese Canadian Youth
A qualitative study of learners of Chinese at an Australian university
A ‘community turn’ to engaging international students
Mapping Transnational Habitus
For over twenty years, the Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship series has contributed to cross-disciplinary empirical and theoretical debates on migration processes, serving as a critical forum for and problematising the main issues around the global movement and circulation of people.Grounded in both local and global accounts, the Series firstly focuses on the conceptualisation and dynamics of complex contemporary national and transnational dri…
A systematic literature review of building resilience for pre-service teachers
First systematic literature review of resilience building for pre-service teachers. • A sociological critique on individualism and adaptation prevailing in pre-service teacher resilience research. • A call for sociology of resilience and resilience-incorporated teacher education for individual and structural transformation. This systematic literature review is the first of its kind to synthesise and analyse existing scholarship on building resili…
Mobilising resilience to symbolic violence with Chinese international research students in Australia
Psychological studies on international research students' resilience to mental distress have attracted much scholarly attention. Yet, sociological inquiries into resilience to 'invisible' pressures such as power imbalances remain limited. Drawing insights from Bourdieu's relational sociology, we recast the psychology of resilience to adversities into a sociology of resilience to symbolic violence. To delve into the latter, we surveyed 220 Chinese…
Navigating across academic labour markets
Much research has investigated international graduate employability in home or host countries. However, limited studies have accounted for such employability across the home and the host. Drawing on Bourdieu's relational and reflexive sociology, this paper critically examined the first author's narrative of his employment experiences as a doctoral graduate navigating across Chinese and Australian academic fields after completing ten years of high…
A bibliometric analysis of alternative routes to teaching
This bibliometric review sourced 166 articles on Alternative Routes to Teaching (ARTs) from Web of Science published in 1988–2024. It reveals the global presence and over-representation of US studies in ARTs research. Journals in education policy and teacher education publish that research strongly. Topical foci of ARTs research include teacher education, policy reform, Teach For America, teacher certification, and student achievement-cum-teacher…
University matching’ in state-regulated Sino-Australian transnational higher education
The past three decades have seen proliferating research on Transnational Higher Education (TNHE), mostly understood through a market-oriented lens as a means of institutional and individual investment in economic and status gains. Less understood is the interplay between the state and the market logic in TNHE. Large-scale research on the market-state-status coordinated effect on TNHE is absent. This study makes a contribution in this regard throu…
Groupings between floating children and urban children
Drawing on Bourdieu’s sociology, the concept of space in particular, this paper discussed the positions and dispositions of floating children in the urban space. It used social network analysis to test the homophily hypothesis that socially similar agents are physically proximate. Data were collected from 45 floating children and urban children in a community school in China. The results rejected the homophily hypothesis, calling for collective a…
Problematising English monolingualism in the ‘multicultural’ university
With English hegemony sustained in ‘multicultural’ Anglophone universities, non-English speaking research students often develop diverse strategies to improve their English. While such strategies demonstrate a form of resilience, the symbolic power of English remains intact. To grapple with this paradox, we draw on the work of Pierre Bourdieu to probe Chinese international research students’ academic language practice in response to English monol…
A Fish in Many Waters? Addressing Transnational Habitus and the Reworking of Bourdieu in Global Contexts
This article explores the operationalization of transnational habitus by scholars to understand how individuals experience mobilities across borders. Our scoping study of 21 scholarly publications focuses on the various ways in which transnational habitus is defined as well as the different approaches to theorizing a transnational habitus. In critically mapping the relatively short history of transnational habitus, we are interested in what about…
Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education
Young children as intercultural mediators
Spotlight on China
Rural dispositions of floating children within the field of Beijing schools
The rapid pace of urbanisation in China has seen a massive increase in the movement of the rural population to work and live in urban regions. In this large-scale migration context, the educational, health, and psychological problems of floating children are becoming increasingly visible. Different from extant studies, we focus our investigation on the rural dispositions of floating children through interviews with leaders, teachers, and students…
A meta-analysis of the correlation between heritage language and ethnic identity
The interaction between heritage language (HL) and ethnic identity has gained increasing scholarly attention over the past decades. Numerous quantitative studies have investigated and vindicated this interaction within certain contexts. Nevertheless, quantitative evidence on this interaction across contexts is absent to date. The current meta-analysis aims to make a contribution in this regard. By integrating relevant studies, this meta-analysis …
Sociologising resilience through Bourdieu’s field analysis
This paper intends to develop a sociological thinking of child and youth resilience through recourse to Bourdieu. The paper starts by problematising the misconceptualisation that equates resilience with adaptation. It then marks a clear conceptual boundary between the two notions. This is followed by a review of conceptualisations of resilience across different historical times and theoretical schools, discussing the paradigmatic shifts from the …
Looking Chinese and Learning Chinese as a Heritage Language
The identity-language link has been widely recognised. In Heritage Language research, the complex entanglement between Chinese ethnic identity and Chinese Heritage Language has gained increasing attention in recent decades. Both social psychological and poststructural schools have offered meaningful insights into this field, but have also received criticism from other perspectives. To think through these two camps of scholarship, this paper draws…
Heritage Language learning for Chinese Australians
The relationship between Heritage Language (HL) and ethnic identity has gained significant research ground in social psychological and poststructural scholarship, with empirical evidence largely emerging from the North American settings. There is little pertinent sociological work conducted outside North America. To fill this gap, this sociological study sets its scene in an Australian context. Drawing on Bourdieu's notion of habitus, the study e…
Chinese inclusive education teachers' agency within temporal-relational contexts
Problematising English monolingualism in the ‘multicultural’ university
With English hegemony sustained in ‘multicultural’ Anglophone universities, non-English speaking research students often develop diverse strategies to improve their English. While such strategies demonstrate a form of resilience, the symbolic power of English remains intact. To grapple with this paradox, we draw on the work of Pierre Bourdieu to probe Chinese international research students’ academic language practice in response to English monol…
A Fish in Many Waters? Addressing Transnational Habitus and the Reworking of Bourdieu in Global Contexts
This article explores the operationalization of transnational habitus by scholars to understand how individuals experience mobilities across borders. Our scoping study of 21 scholarly publications focuses on the various ways in which transnational habitus is defined as well as the different approaches to theorizing a transnational habitus. In critically mapping the relatively short history of transnational habitus, we are interested in what about…
The China-threat discourse, trade, and the future of Asia. A Symposium
Michael A. PetersOnce commentators and policy-makers divest themselves of deep cultural Western assumptions that only democracies can prosper economically, or that capitalism and liberal democracy
Recognising localised pedagogical capital
In recent years, alternative teacher preparation programmes are globally emerging to address teacher quality in ‘hard-to-staff’ schools. These programmes commonly attract graduates from prestigious universities to teach in disadvantaged schools for two years. One programme of this kind in China is the ‘Exceptional Graduates as Rural Teachers’ (EGRT). In this paper, we repurpose Bourdieu’s sociology to understand the power shift and social change …
Building Pedagogical Content Knowledge within Professional Learning Communities
Building resilience of students with disabilities in China
Validation of the Chinese Version of the 12-Item Child and Youth Resilience Measure
A Bourdieusian rebuttal to Bourdieu’s rebuttal
Bourdieu carved out a distinctive analytical niche for his reflexive sociology. His epistemological tool of field analysis, sometimes coupled with statistical correspondence analysis, is particularly powerful when deciphering the matrix of objective structures and subjective structures within social spaces (field) where agents vie for positions (capital), strategise dispositions (habitus), and negotiate practices. When grappling with the inner wo…
Why do graduates from prestigious universities choose to teach in disadvantaged schools? Lessons from an alternative teacher preparation program in China
Chinese education and Pierre Bourdieu
In the edited book "Bourdieu and Chinese Education", a group of scholars in China, Australia, Canada, and the USA engage in a dialogue with Bourdieu and raise persistent questions not only about issues of equity, competition, and change in Chinese education, but also about the value, venture, and violence in using established Western intellectual frameworks for analysing Chinese education. In response to these questions, this special issue analys…
Resilience to neoliberal structural constraints
Teaching is challenging and has long been vexed by teacher stress, burnout, and attrition. Framing through a positive perspective, this paper investigates teacher resilience to a form of structural challenge, that is, neoliberalism. The paper quantitatively models the resilience process of a sample of 2219 Chinese inclusive education teachers who develop professional competence and manage burnout despite the structural constraints brought about b…
Repurposing field analysis for a relational and reflexive sociology of Chinese diasporas
In this paper, we engage with Chinese diasporas research through recourse to Bourdieu’s relational, reflexive sociology. We start with the historical and recent developments of Chinese diasporas research and point out the potential of using Bourdieu to strengthen the theoretical underpinnings of this research. While we see a steady stream of Bourdieu-informed Chinese diasporas studies and acknowledge their contribution and innovation, we observe …
The limits to public service
Australia faces an ongoing challenge recruiting professionals to staff essential human services in rural and remote communities. This paper identifies the private limits to the implicit service contract between professions and such client populations. These become evident in how private solutions to competing priorities within professional families inform their selective mobility and thus create the public problem for such communities. The paper …
Heritage Language learning for Chinese Australians
The relationship between Heritage Language (HL) and ethnic identity has gained significant research ground in social psychological and poststructural scholarship, with empirical evidence largely emerging from the North American settings. There is little pertinent sociological work conducted outside North America. To fill this gap, this sociological study sets its scene in an Australian context. Drawing on Bourdieu's notion of habitus, the study e…
Coming into an inheritance
The critical role that family plays in Chinese Heritage Language learning (CHLL) has gained increasing attention from psychological, political and sociological scholarships. Guided by Bourdieu's notion of ‘habitus’, our mixed methods sociological study firstly addresses the need for quantitative evidence on the relationship between family support and Chinese Heritage Language (CHL) proficiency through a survey of 230 young Chinese Australians; an…
A meta-analysis of the correlation between heritage language and ethnic identity
The interaction between heritage language (HL) and ethnic identity has gained increasing scholarly attention over the past decades. Numerous quantitative studies have investigated and vindicated this interaction within certain contexts. Nevertheless, quantitative evidence on this interaction across contexts is absent to date. The current meta-analysis aims to make a contribution in this regard. By integrating relevant studies, this meta-analysis …
The limits to public service
Australia faces an ongoing challenge recruiting professionals to staff essential human services in rural and remote communities. This paper identifies the private limits to the implicit service contract between professions and such client populations. These become evident in how private solutions to competing priorities within professional families inform their selective mobility and thus create the public problem for such communities. The paper …
Looking Chinese and Learning Chinese as a Heritage Language
The identity-language link has been widely recognised. In Heritage Language research, the complex entanglement between Chinese ethnic identity and Chinese Heritage Language has gained increasing attention in recent decades. Both social psychological and poststructural schools have offered meaningful insights into this field, but have also received criticism from other perspectives. To think through these two camps of scholarship, this paper draws…
Chinese inclusive education teachers' agency within temporal-relational contexts
Validation of the Chinese Version of the 12-Item Child and Youth Resilience Measure
Rural dispositions of floating children within the field of Beijing schools
The rapid pace of urbanisation in China has seen a massive increase in the movement of the rural population to work and live in urban regions. In this large-scale migration context, the educational, health, and psychological problems of floating children are becoming increasingly visible. Different from extant studies, we focus our investigation on the rural dispositions of floating children through interviews with leaders, teachers, and students…
Postdoctoral scholars in a faculty of education
The last decade has seen a slow but steady increase in the number of postdoctoral scholars employed in faculties of education. In this article, seven postdoctoral scholars who worked in the same Canadian faculty of education explore their past positionings within the postdoctoral space. We share personal narratives related to issues of agency and identity in our relatively ill-defined positions. Similar to other early career academics, our reflec…
Building resilience of students with disabilities in China
Bourdieu and Chinese Education
Forging inclusive practice in ethnically-segregated school systems
This paper offers a perspective on bilingual education (BE) as inclusive education. Ethnolinguistically-separated schools and classrooms in Sri Lanka resulted from an enduring, mother tongue instruction policy which abetted a deeply ethnically-divided nation. More recently, Sri Lanka has experimented with a BE programme in pursuit of enriching the perceived value of the local mother tongues as well as building students’ knowledge of English as a …
Why do graduates from prestigious universities choose to teach in disadvantaged schools? Lessons from an alternative teacher preparation program in China
Building Pedagogical Content Knowledge within Professional Learning Communities
Interpreting the Chinese Diaspora
Globalisation and migration have created a vibrant yet dysphoric world fraught with different, and sometimes competing, practices and discourses. The emergent properties of the modern world inevitably complicate the being, doing, and thinking of Chinese diasporic populations living in predominantly white, English-speaking societies. This raises questions of what 'Chineseness' is. The gradual transfer of power from the West to the East shuffles th…
Chinese education and Pierre Bourdieu
In the edited book "Bourdieu and Chinese Education", a group of scholars in China, Australia, Canada, and the USA engage in a dialogue with Bourdieu and raise persistent questions not only about issues of equity, competition, and change in Chinese education, but also about the value, venture, and violence in using established Western intellectual frameworks for analysing Chinese education. In response to these questions, this special issue analys…
A Bourdieusian rebuttal to Bourdieu’s rebuttal
Bourdieu carved out a distinctive analytical niche for his reflexive sociology. His epistemological tool of field analysis, sometimes coupled with statistical correspondence analysis, is particularly powerful when deciphering the matrix of objective structures and subjective structures within social spaces (field) where agents vie for positions (capital), strategise dispositions (habitus), and negotiate practices. When grappling with the inner wo…
Recognising localised pedagogical capital
In recent years, alternative teacher preparation programmes are globally emerging to address teacher quality in ‘hard-to-staff’ schools. These programmes commonly attract graduates from prestigious universities to teach in disadvantaged schools for two years. One programme of this kind in China is the ‘Exceptional Graduates as Rural Teachers’ (EGRT). In this paper, we repurpose Bourdieu’s sociology to understand the power shift and social change …
Perceived teacher support and students’ acceptance of mobile‐assisted language learning
Teachers play key roles in advancing the use of mobile devices for language learning in both formal and informal settings. However, in contexts where top‐down educational policies are prevalent, the roles of teachers are usually overemphasized while learners–the end‐users of educational technologies remain largely ignored. Less understood is what roles students expect teachers to play in facilitating their acceptance of mobile‐assisted language l…
Sociologising resilience through Bourdieu’s field analysis
This paper intends to develop a sociological thinking of child and youth resilience through recourse to Bourdieu. The paper starts by problematising the misconceptualisation that equates resilience with adaptation. It then marks a clear conceptual boundary between the two notions. This is followed by a review of conceptualisations of resilience across different historical times and theoretical schools, discussing the paradigmatic shifts from the …
Repurposing field analysis for a relational and reflexive sociology of Chinese diasporas
In this paper, we engage with Chinese diasporas research through recourse to Bourdieu’s relational, reflexive sociology. We start with the historical and recent developments of Chinese diasporas research and point out the potential of using Bourdieu to strengthen the theoretical underpinnings of this research. While we see a steady stream of Bourdieu-informed Chinese diasporas studies and acknowledge their contribution and innovation, we observe …
The China-threat discourse, trade, and the future of Asia. A Symposium
Michael A. PetersOnce commentators and policy-makers divest themselves of deep cultural Western assumptions that only democracies can prosper economically, or that capitalism and liberal democracy
Examination-oriented or quality-oriented? A question for fellows of an alternative teacher preparation program in China
Reproducing the urban or reappraising the local? Extracurricular activities developed by fellows in an alternative teacher preparation programme in China
This paper analyses the forms of, and the reasons for developing extracurricular activities by fellow participants in an alternative teacher preparation programme in China. We frame the paper through Bourdieu’s sociology. Our interviews with 16 fellows reveal that fellows manoeuvre their capital portfolio to develop both academic and non-academic forms of extracurricular activities. Reasons for developing extracurricular activities include using …
Submission or subversion
Sociology (44 obras) · Political science (31 obras) · Psychology (30 obras) · Pedagogy (24 obras) · Social science (23 obras) · Habitus (18 obras) · Cultural capital (16 obras) · Mathematics education (14 obras) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (14 obras) · China (13 obras)