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Transnational students’ attachment to place in campus : towards the internationalization of Universiti Putra Malaysia

In many universities around the world internationalization is promoted as a top priority to attract lucrative international student markets. To achieve this goal, it is essential to facilitate a sense of place amongst transnational students to eradicate social and psychological problems in the n...

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Main Authors: Mohammad Yazah Mat Raschid,, Ezaz Fatemi,, Roslina Sharif,, Abdul Halim Ismail,
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Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20780/1/283-970-1-PB.pdf
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spelling my-ukm.journal.207802022-12-15T07:03:49Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20780/ Transnational students’ attachment to place in campus : towards the internationalization of Universiti Putra Malaysia Mohammad Yazah Mat Raschid, Ezaz Fatemi, Roslina Sharif, Abdul Halim Ismail, In many universities around the world internationalization is promoted as a top priority to attract lucrative international student markets. To achieve this goal, it is essential to facilitate a sense of place amongst transnational students to eradicate social and psychological problems in the new educational environment. Despite this, there seems to be insufficient records on the actual manner of transnational students’ securitizing the issue and how it has impacted their educational lifestyles. Therefore, the challenge now is to ascertain the actual level of attachment in campus before embarking into a more related complex and multidisciplinary social and physical studies. The aim of this study to investigate the level of emotional attachment of place of international students and the manner it affects their educational experiences in Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) main campus. For this reason, a 5-point Likert-Scaled questionnaire survey on 336 UPM international students and data analysis using SPSS were conducted. Results demonstrate that the international students have a low emotional place attachment towards the campus design which also affects their social well-being and psychological health. Recognizing the main indicators of emotional attachment also assist in improving the physical design of the campus to support the international students’ sense of place attachment. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20780/1/283-970-1-PB.pdf Mohammad Yazah Mat Raschid, and Ezaz Fatemi, and Roslina Sharif, and Abdul Halim Ismail, (2017) Transnational students’ attachment to place in campus : towards the internationalization of Universiti Putra Malaysia. Jurnal Rekabentuk dan Binaan ; Journal of Design & Built, 10 (1). pp. 27-35. ISSN 1985-6881 https://spaj.ukm.my/jsb/index.php/jdb/issue/view/43/showToc
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description In many universities around the world internationalization is promoted as a top priority to attract lucrative international student markets. To achieve this goal, it is essential to facilitate a sense of place amongst transnational students to eradicate social and psychological problems in the new educational environment. Despite this, there seems to be insufficient records on the actual manner of transnational students’ securitizing the issue and how it has impacted their educational lifestyles. Therefore, the challenge now is to ascertain the actual level of attachment in campus before embarking into a more related complex and multidisciplinary social and physical studies. The aim of this study to investigate the level of emotional attachment of place of international students and the manner it affects their educational experiences in Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) main campus. For this reason, a 5-point Likert-Scaled questionnaire survey on 336 UPM international students and data analysis using SPSS were conducted. Results demonstrate that the international students have a low emotional place attachment towards the campus design which also affects their social well-being and psychological health. Recognizing the main indicators of emotional attachment also assist in improving the physical design of the campus to support the international students’ sense of place attachment.
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author Mohammad Yazah Mat Raschid,
Ezaz Fatemi,
Roslina Sharif,
Abdul Halim Ismail,
spellingShingle Mohammad Yazah Mat Raschid,
Ezaz Fatemi,
Roslina Sharif,
Abdul Halim Ismail,
Transnational students’ attachment to place in campus : towards the internationalization of Universiti Putra Malaysia
author_facet Mohammad Yazah Mat Raschid,
Ezaz Fatemi,
Roslina Sharif,
Abdul Halim Ismail,
author_sort Mohammad Yazah Mat Raschid,
title Transnational students’ attachment to place in campus : towards the internationalization of Universiti Putra Malaysia
title_short Transnational students’ attachment to place in campus : towards the internationalization of Universiti Putra Malaysia
title_full Transnational students’ attachment to place in campus : towards the internationalization of Universiti Putra Malaysia
title_fullStr Transnational students’ attachment to place in campus : towards the internationalization of Universiti Putra Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Transnational students’ attachment to place in campus : towards the internationalization of Universiti Putra Malaysia
title_sort transnational students’ attachment to place in campus : towards the internationalization of universiti putra malaysia
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2017
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20780/1/283-970-1-PB.pdf
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