e-Pedagogium 2019, 19(2):7-20 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2019.011

A cross-cultural study of value orientation and its effect on doctoral students’ self-concept formation

Danping Penga, Iva Koribskáa, Štefan Chudýa
Institute of Education and Social Studies, Faculty of Education, Palacký University

Enormous changes in recent decades have led to the trend of higher education globalization. Globalization brings great opportunities for equity and quality in education to be realised for international students, however, it also poses challenges. Focused on doctoral students' self-concept formation, the current research adopted a qualitative approach to explore the value orientations of doctoral students and their self-concept formation, aiming to contribute to the literature on doctoral students' values and to the improvement of practice in higher education. Convenience sampling and random selection was used to select the participants. Four international doctoral students participated in this research. Based on the data collected, the researchers summarized the multifaceted self-concept formation, the role of value orientation in its formation and outlined the structure of the current support system.

Keywords: value orientation, self-concept formation, cross-cultural adaptation, international doctoral students.

Accepted: August 5, 2019; Published: September 1, 2019  Show citation

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Peng, D., Koribská, I., & Chudý, Š. (2019). A cross-cultural study of value orientation and its effect on doctoral students’ self-concept formation. e-Pedagogium, 19(2), 7-20. doi: 10.5507/epd.2019.011
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