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Understanding the International Student Experience. Catherine Montgomery (2010). Palgrave Macmillan, February 2010, £22.99. 5 (UK), $27.05 (US), 224 pages ISBN: 978-1-4039-8619-1
Catherine Montgomery has depicted a clear picture of how international students encounter both social and cultural, academic differences and learn positively as a result of crosscultural experiences while studying as abroad sojourns in her book, Understanding the International Student Experience. She has established a strong relationship with foreign students who pursue higher education overseas with home cultures, languages, and learning backgrounds.
Montgomery has examined social factors and learning environments of international students because she believes "learning takes place in contexts beyond the classroom and beyond university walls" (p. xiii). Through the lenses of constructivist approach, she conceives that international students establish an authentic meaning of their learning from their own perspectives as being embedded in social and cultural contexts. She addresses the dichotomy of the culture of internationalization in...