Day, Michael James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9612-2595 (2024) Censorship and digital defiance in Higher Education: exploring barriers to studying degrees in China's joint venture international universities. Global Journal of Research in Humanities & Cultural Studies (GJRHCS), 4 (5). pp. 21-30. ISSN 2583-2670 (Online) (doi:10.5281/zenodo.13904585)

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Abstract

Student expression and access to knowledge within China's Higher Education (HE) system is explored in this article. It considers if censorship and authoritarianism drive academic digital piracy. Exploring the rise of joint venture universities in China, whose curriculums are often directed by western influence, literature and pedagogy, the article raises critical questions about the impact of censorship on student experience. To forge answers to these questions, it presents the views of Chinese postgraduate students engaged in learning at a UK joint venture university in China, who revealed they perceived piracy as necessary to promote academic progress and overcome censorship. The article concludes, therefore, by suggesting digital piracy has become part of the fabric of university learning and teaching, which is catalysed in settings where censorship creates intellectual resource scarcity, widening the gap. Hence, the study demonstrates disadvantage and inequalities faced by international students, such as

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Higher Education, China, censorship, authoritarianism, academic freedom, digital piracy
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Educational Development Unit Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences Information & Library Services
Last Modified:	10 Dec 2024 15:56
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/48847

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