Benjamin H Nam
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 769954 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Benjamin H Nam |
| PRENOMES | Benjamin H |
| SOBRENOME | Nam |
| ASSINATURA | NAM B H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Shanghai International Studies University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9969-4783 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The synergistic effects of motivations and supervisor support on postgraduates’ research literacy
Contextualized in Chinese higher educations, this study unpacked the influence of motivations and supervisors’ support on postgraduates’ research literacy, through comparing three proposed research models rooted in the self-determination theory. The study collected responses from 345 postgraduates in a dozen research-oriented Chinese universities, and data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Results indicated that postgraduates’ per…
Institutional habitus, cultural capital, and STEAM learner identity in the context of rural Chinese technical vocational education and training
Originality and Knowledge Reproduction in Interdisciplinary Qualitative Research
Despite growing concerns about originality and knowledge production in interdisciplinary qualitative research (IQR), persistent challenges to publishable scholarship have been associated with the deferral of research projects, alongside rapid shifts in research trends, paradigms, and agendas. Notable concerns include ethnographers’ temporal cessations of fieldwork, dissatisfaction with the inconclusive results, and potentially limited theoretical…
Institutional Habitus, Transnational Academic Capital, and Contract Renewal Strategies Among Western Scholars in Mainland China
Despite a growing body of research on the post-pandemic academic labor market crisis and its impact on potential turnover issues involving Western international faculty members (IFMs) in mainland China, far too little empirical research has been conducted regarding their contract renewal strategies. Thus, this study underpins the conceptual map of institutional habitus, transnational academic capital, and professional identity and adopts an explo…
Multilingual capital, teacher agencies, and learner identities
Purpose This study explored the subjectivities of eight co-authors who are domestic and foreign teachers and graduate student researchers at an international studies university in China, positioning themselves as Mandarin Chinese speakers to refine the meanings of multilingual capital, teacher agencies, and learner identities in language and intercultural education. Design/methodology/approach The eight co-authors embarked on a co-constructive an…
Reflexivity and Research Literacy in Language Education
Academic Freedom and Teaching in Asia
Meta-autoethnography as a co-constructive descriptive and narrative methodology
A Meta-Autoethnography of Metadiscourse
This paper offers novel methodological insights into a meta-autoethnography of metadiscourse and implications for interdisciplinary qualitative research on generative artificial intelligence (AI) models. Two authors represent divergent subjectivities in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM), business, management, and economics (BME), and higher education research and development (HERD). Thus, the authors attempt to desig…
Refining the myth of brain drain and gain and transnational academic capital mobility
Acculturative challenges and intercultural communication competence in the Sino-Anglo cultural duet
Understanding perceived Covid-19 changes, collectivism, and social exclusion
The myths of “Melting Pot” and “California Dream
Cosmopolitan nationalism as higher education policy? Converging and diverging discourses from China, Japan, and Korea
This critical discourse analysis explores cosmopolitan nationalism as neoliberal reform within East Asian higher education (HE). Placing cosmopolitan nationalism within the Foucauldian genealogical oeuvre, we draw comparisons between Chinese, Japanese, and Korean HE policy to expand the theoretical basis of this emerging framework. Against this background, HE policy draws our gaze towards the tensions inherent to State-level demands for ‘enterpri…
Acculturation and linguistic ideology in the context of global student mobility
This cross-cultural ethnography explored the global student mobility patterns of international students from English-speaking countries in China and asked research questions about (a) their motivational factors and acculturation expectations before arrival; (b) linguistic factors influencing their acculturative stressors in the host group community’s culture and its academic, social, and public systems after arrival; and (c) their reflections on …
Revisiting symbolic power and elite language education in China
Despite the promise of English language teaching and the use of English as a medium of instruction, concerns have been growing about the decline in the number of English majors as well as structural problems in elite language education reflected in the rural-urban divide and resulting educational gaps in China. The English education major at a top language-intensive university could serve as a key site for this investigation. However, existing li…
Subjectivities and the future of comparative and international education
This article presents a co-constructive narrative inquiry into the subjectivities of three female graduate student researchers (GSRs) from China, Vietnam, and Finland pursuing academic career paths in comparative and international education (CIE). Two American teacher researchers and their GSRs came to this research committed to collaborative action. They explored educational and professional journeys from the local to the global as teachers, edu…
Mental health and early career adaptation challenges of Chinese returnees and Korean ambitionists among the STEAM doctoral cohorts in the post-pandemic academic job market
This longitudinal study presents a critical phenomenological comparison of mental health and early career adaptation challenges encountered by Chinese returnees and Korean ambitionists in the post-pandemic academic job market. They were international doctoral candidates in American higher education pursuing academic careers in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) but failed to secure tenure-track faculty positions. Cons…
Intercultural capital and ambiguous loss in in-between space
This study presents a digital ethnography of the Anglo-Chinese academic family community (ASAFC) amid China's transformation into the post-pandemic era. The ASAFC members are men from Anglophone countries married to Chinese women. Thus, two American male authors and one Chinese male author observed WeChat group texts shared by 64 individuals from Anglophone countries between 16 November 2022, and 31 January 2023, and in turn, triangulated their f…
Aspiration for cosmopolitan capital and ambiguous loss
This study adopts a critical phenomenological approach to explore the impacts of COVID-19 on the transnational educational experiences of Chinese college students in short-term academic exchange programmeshosted by universities in the United States. This study uses concepts of cosmopolitan capital and ambiguous loss to interpret the pandemic experiences of Chinese students. Accordingly, the current study promotes scholarly conversation about the …
Collective Resilience and Coping Mechanisms Among International Faculty Members Amid Snap Lockdowns During the Delta and Omicron Variant Outbreaks in East China
This study explores international faculty members' resilience and the active challenges to establishing coping mechanisms while facing a mental health crisis provoked by the Delta and Omicron lockdowns in China. Grounded in a qualitative approach, this study used a transcendental phenomenological methodology to examine 16 international faculty members affiliated with higher education institutions in Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Nanjing. The findings s…
ChatGPT and its ethical implications for STEM research and higher education
Background With the increasing demand brought on by the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution in the period of post-digital education and bio-digital technology, artificial intelligence (AI) has played a pivotal role in supporting human intelligence and contributing to intellectuals within science, technology, science, and mathematics (STEM) and in the broader field of higher education. Thus, this study examines how writers for mainstream…
Intercultural communication between Chinese college students and foreign teachers through the English corner at an elite language university in Shanghai
Symbolic power for student curators as social agents
The COVID-19 pandemic has hindered the effectiveness of museum management and curatorship, a growing concern for the movement of international heritage conservation. Accordingly, this participatory action research explores the emergence of the Museum of World Languages at Shanghai International Studies University during the COVID-19 pandemic. By drawing insights from Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of symbolic power and social agency in the new museol…
How to Cope With Emergency Remote Teaching for University Academics
Despite the growing body of literature on the structural problems of emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, far too little empirical research has been conducted on university academics' challenges in online pedagogy and what is needed to facilitate their teaching during a time of educational crisis. Thus, this study selects a high-profile Chinese language university as a case study to explore how university academics in China hav…
Social support for international students who faced emotional challenges midst Wuhan's 76-day lockdown during early stage of the Covid-19 pandemic
The myths of “Melting Pot” and “California Dream
ChatGPT and its ethical implications for STEM research and higher education
Background With the increasing demand brought on by the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution in the period of post-digital education and bio-digital technology, artificial intelligence (AI) has played a pivotal role in supporting human intelligence and contributing to intellectuals within science, technology, science, and mathematics (STEM) and in the broader field of higher education. Thus, this study examines how writers for mainstream…
Meta-autoethnography as a co-constructive descriptive and narrative methodology
Cosmopolitan nationalism as higher education policy? Converging and diverging discourses from China, Japan, and Korea
This critical discourse analysis explores cosmopolitan nationalism as neoliberal reform within East Asian higher education (HE). Placing cosmopolitan nationalism within the Foucauldian genealogical oeuvre, we draw comparisons between Chinese, Japanese, and Korean HE policy to expand the theoretical basis of this emerging framework. Against this background, HE policy draws our gaze towards the tensions inherent to State-level demands for ‘enterpri…
Mental health and early career adaptation challenges of Chinese returnees and Korean ambitionists among the STEAM doctoral cohorts in the post-pandemic academic job market
This longitudinal study presents a critical phenomenological comparison of mental health and early career adaptation challenges encountered by Chinese returnees and Korean ambitionists in the post-pandemic academic job market. They were international doctoral candidates in American higher education pursuing academic careers in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) but failed to secure tenure-track faculty positions. Cons…
English proficiency matters’
This study utilizes a critical phenomenological approach and adopts concepts of linguistic hegemony and linguistic capital, to explore the life course stages of former Korean college student-athletes who dropped out of athletic programs and who faced vocational challenge but obtained successful careers in their ideal career fields through improving their English proficiency. The three primary scholarly themes include: (a) typical English level an…
Intercultural communication between Chinese college students and foreign teachers through the English corner at an elite language university in Shanghai
Promoting global citizenship and multiculturalism in higher education
The Korea International Cooperation Agency’s Pacific Asia Society Youth Corps (KOICA-PYC) is a global volunteer organization that has dispatched college students to the Asia Pacific region for more than the past two decades. This study explores how executive board members of the KOICA-PYC evaluate Korean college students during their summer vacations. This study specifically asks how the executive board members view their college students’ develo…
Why universities need to actively combat Sinophobia
This phenomenological study explores the experiences of Chinese international undergraduate students in the United States as they work through the complications of COVID-19 that are potentially intertwined with Sinophobia. By drawing on insights from critical race theory, especially the lens of racial trauma and trauma-informed care, the current study interprets four primary themes: (a) Paradox: Confusions about Racism in Academic Life; (b) Racia…
Promoting the Right to Education and Dual Careers of Athletes
College student-athletes who drop out of athletic programs are often segregated from mainstream society in South Korea. They face diverse life difficulties and vocational challenges and lack appropriate social and emotional support. This article explores the experiences and perspectives of former college student-athletes who dropped out of athletic programs but overcame educational, social, and cultural barriers to develop successful career paths…
Acculturative challenges and intercultural communication competence in the Sino-Anglo cultural duet
Symbolic power for student curators as social agents
The COVID-19 pandemic has hindered the effectiveness of museum management and curatorship, a growing concern for the movement of international heritage conservation. Accordingly, this participatory action research explores the emergence of the Museum of World Languages at Shanghai International Studies University during the COVID-19 pandemic. By drawing insights from Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of symbolic power and social agency in the new museol…
How to Cope With Emergency Remote Teaching for University Academics
Despite the growing body of literature on the structural problems of emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, far too little empirical research has been conducted on university academics' challenges in online pedagogy and what is needed to facilitate their teaching during a time of educational crisis. Thus, this study selects a high-profile Chinese language university as a case study to explore how university academics in China hav…
Intercultural capital and ambiguous loss in in-between space
This study presents a digital ethnography of the Anglo-Chinese academic family community (ASAFC) amid China's transformation into the post-pandemic era. The ASAFC members are men from Anglophone countries married to Chinese women. Thus, two American male authors and one Chinese male author observed WeChat group texts shared by 64 individuals from Anglophone countries between 16 November 2022, and 31 January 2023, and in turn, triangulated their f…
A Comparative Analysis of Multimodal Native Cultural Content in English-Language Textbooks in China and Mongolia
This article examines the multimodal native cultural content in two sets of English-language textbooks widely used in public junior high schools in China and Mongolia. A pre-existing analytical framework was adapted for this analysis. Through this adapted framework, this paper aims to analyze and compare the distribution of multimodal native cultural content in the chosen textbooks. The results reveal that the two sets of books contain diverse mu…
Symbolic Power and Dual Careers of Athletes
This study explored the successful career transition experiences of Korean college athletes who ceased to participate in sport prior to completing their college eligibility. In particular, the research addressed the ways in which they overcame challenges while pursuing their desired post-sport career paths. A qualitative approach was adopted to explore participants’ life transitions, uncovering six primary themes: (1) entering the athletic specia…
Capitalism and Reproduction in the New Museology
This article presents a critical discourse analysis of the nexus between Chinese cultural heritage conservation and promotion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is globally well-known and the largest art museum in the United States. Although the museum has collected, restored, and exhibited foreign cultural heritage in its halls to promote social and cultural development, there are potential risks when the museum hosts events and social act…
Where ‘West Meets East’
This article presents a qualitative discourse analysis of the Chinese arts collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, largest art museum in the United States, and how the museum’s promotional activities may potentially engender global cultural politics and entailing commercial debates regarding their Chinese relic collections. Although the museum has collected, restored, and exhibited foreign cultural heritage in its halls to promote social an…
English proficiency matters’
This study utilizes a critical phenomenological approach and adopts concepts of linguistic hegemony and linguistic capital, to explore the life course stages of former Korean college student-athletes who dropped out of athletic programs and who faced vocational challenge but obtained successful careers in their ideal career fields through improving their English proficiency. The three primary scholarly themes include: (a) typical English level an…
Promoting the Right to Education and Dual Careers of Athletes
College student-athletes who drop out of athletic programs are often segregated from mainstream society in South Korea. They face diverse life difficulties and vocational challenges and lack appropriate social and emotional support. This article explores the experiences and perspectives of former college student-athletes who dropped out of athletic programs but overcame educational, social, and cultural barriers to develop successful career paths…
Why universities need to actively combat Sinophobia
This phenomenological study explores the experiences of Chinese international undergraduate students in the United States as they work through the complications of COVID-19 that are potentially intertwined with Sinophobia. By drawing on insights from critical race theory, especially the lens of racial trauma and trauma-informed care, the current study interprets four primary themes: (a) Paradox: Confusions about Racism in Academic Life; (b) Racia…
Trauma-Informed Care
This transcendental phenomenological study explored psychologically traumatic incidents and risk factors among international faculty members (IFMs) who experienced long-term lockdowns during the Delta and Omicron outbreak periods in East China. Based on empirical voices from 18 IFMs in Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Nanjing, this study used trauma-informed care as its primary theoretical lens to examine potential traumatic incidents and risk factors. Fi…
The ‘Myth of Zero-Covid’ Nation
This study presents a digital ethnography of expats' survival amid the Shanghai lockdown during the Omicron variant outbreak. This study drew insights from studies on resilience and secondary coping within the context of global migration to comprehend the diverse emotional challenges faced by expats in a series of lockdowns and persistent nucleic acid amplification tests. Thus, this study asks what the major emotional challenges expats faced and …
Promoting global citizenship and multiculturalism in higher education
The Korea International Cooperation Agency’s Pacific Asia Society Youth Corps (KOICA-PYC) is a global volunteer organization that has dispatched college students to the Asia Pacific region for more than the past two decades. This study explores how executive board members of the KOICA-PYC evaluate Korean college students during their summer vacations. This study specifically asks how the executive board members view their college students’ develo…
Symbolic Power and Dual Careers of Athletes
This study explored the successful career transition experiences of Korean college athletes who ceased to participate in sport prior to completing their college eligibility. In particular, the research addressed the ways in which they overcame challenges while pursuing their desired post-sport career paths. A qualitative approach was adopted to explore participants’ life transitions, uncovering six primary themes: (1) entering the athletic specia…
Social support for international students who faced emotional challenges midst Wuhan's 76-day lockdown during early stage of the Covid-19 pandemic
Aspiration for cosmopolitan capital and ambiguous loss
This study adopts a critical phenomenological approach to explore the impacts of COVID-19 on the transnational educational experiences of Chinese college students in short-term academic exchange programmeshosted by universities in the United States. This study uses concepts of cosmopolitan capital and ambiguous loss to interpret the pandemic experiences of Chinese students. Accordingly, the current study promotes scholarly conversation about the …
Collective Resilience and Coping Mechanisms Among International Faculty Members Amid Snap Lockdowns During the Delta and Omicron Variant Outbreaks in East China
This study explores international faculty members' resilience and the active challenges to establishing coping mechanisms while facing a mental health crisis provoked by the Delta and Omicron lockdowns in China. Grounded in a qualitative approach, this study used a transcendental phenomenological methodology to examine 16 international faculty members affiliated with higher education institutions in Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Nanjing. The findings s…
ChatGPT and its ethical implications for STEM research and higher education
Background With the increasing demand brought on by the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution in the period of post-digital education and bio-digital technology, artificial intelligence (AI) has played a pivotal role in supporting human intelligence and contributing to intellectuals within science, technology, science, and mathematics (STEM) and in the broader field of higher education. Thus, this study examines how writers for mainstream…
Intercultural communication between Chinese college students and foreign teachers through the English corner at an elite language university in Shanghai
Symbolic power for student curators as social agents
The COVID-19 pandemic has hindered the effectiveness of museum management and curatorship, a growing concern for the movement of international heritage conservation. Accordingly, this participatory action research explores the emergence of the Museum of World Languages at Shanghai International Studies University during the COVID-19 pandemic. By drawing insights from Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of symbolic power and social agency in the new museol…
How to Cope With Emergency Remote Teaching for University Academics
Despite the growing body of literature on the structural problems of emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, far too little empirical research has been conducted on university academics' challenges in online pedagogy and what is needed to facilitate their teaching during a time of educational crisis. Thus, this study selects a high-profile Chinese language university as a case study to explore how university academics in China hav…
A Comparative Analysis of Multimodal Native Cultural Content in English-Language Textbooks in China and Mongolia
This article examines the multimodal native cultural content in two sets of English-language textbooks widely used in public junior high schools in China and Mongolia. A pre-existing analytical framework was adapted for this analysis. Through this adapted framework, this paper aims to analyze and compare the distribution of multimodal native cultural content in the chosen textbooks. The results reveal that the two sets of books contain diverse mu…
Acculturation and linguistic ideology in the context of global student mobility
This cross-cultural ethnography explored the global student mobility patterns of international students from English-speaking countries in China and asked research questions about (a) their motivational factors and acculturation expectations before arrival; (b) linguistic factors influencing their acculturative stressors in the host group community’s culture and its academic, social, and public systems after arrival; and (c) their reflections on …
Revisiting symbolic power and elite language education in China
Despite the promise of English language teaching and the use of English as a medium of instruction, concerns have been growing about the decline in the number of English majors as well as structural problems in elite language education reflected in the rural-urban divide and resulting educational gaps in China. The English education major at a top language-intensive university could serve as a key site for this investigation. However, existing li…
Subjectivities and the future of comparative and international education
This article presents a co-constructive narrative inquiry into the subjectivities of three female graduate student researchers (GSRs) from China, Vietnam, and Finland pursuing academic career paths in comparative and international education (CIE). Two American teacher researchers and their GSRs came to this research committed to collaborative action. They explored educational and professional journeys from the local to the global as teachers, edu…
Mental health and early career adaptation challenges of Chinese returnees and Korean ambitionists among the STEAM doctoral cohorts in the post-pandemic academic job market
This longitudinal study presents a critical phenomenological comparison of mental health and early career adaptation challenges encountered by Chinese returnees and Korean ambitionists in the post-pandemic academic job market. They were international doctoral candidates in American higher education pursuing academic careers in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) but failed to secure tenure-track faculty positions. Cons…
Intercultural capital and ambiguous loss in in-between space
This study presents a digital ethnography of the Anglo-Chinese academic family community (ASAFC) amid China's transformation into the post-pandemic era. The ASAFC members are men from Anglophone countries married to Chinese women. Thus, two American male authors and one Chinese male author observed WeChat group texts shared by 64 individuals from Anglophone countries between 16 November 2022, and 31 January 2023, and in turn, triangulated their f…
Institutional Habitus, Transnational Academic Capital, and Contract Renewal Strategies Among Western Scholars in Mainland China
Despite a growing body of research on the post-pandemic academic labor market crisis and its impact on potential turnover issues involving Western international faculty members (IFMs) in mainland China, far too little empirical research has been conducted regarding their contract renewal strategies. Thus, this study underpins the conceptual map of institutional habitus, transnational academic capital, and professional identity and adopts an explo…
Multilingual capital, teacher agencies, and learner identities
Purpose This study explored the subjectivities of eight co-authors who are domestic and foreign teachers and graduate student researchers at an international studies university in China, positioning themselves as Mandarin Chinese speakers to refine the meanings of multilingual capital, teacher agencies, and learner identities in language and intercultural education. Design/methodology/approach The eight co-authors embarked on a co-constructive an…
Reflexivity and Research Literacy in Language Education
Sociology (26 obras) · Political science (25 obras) · Psychology (18 obras) · China (15 obras) · Medicine (13 obras) · Pedagogy (13 obras) · Social science (13 obras) · Social Psychology (10 obras) · Anthropology (9 obras) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (9 obras)