Liu Dan, Xu Yuwei, Zhao Tongtong, Che Siqi
School of English Education, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China.
Faculty of Business and Law, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom.
Front Psychol. 2022 Apr 18;13:859240. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.859240. eCollection 2022.
This study uses the bioecological model of human development to understand the academic career development of Chinese returnees with overseas Ph.D. degrees (CROPs). Focuses are placed on how CROPs engaged in this process through interactions with contexts, which lead to their differentiated and similar career development in Chinese higher education. Using a qualitative approach of semi-structured interviews with 31 CROPs, our findings reveal that CROPs' academic career development is co-shaped by personal characteristics and multi-layered environmental contexts. The study highlights the dysfunctionality of Chinese higher education system in the context of China's ambition to build First-class Universities and First-class Subjects (Double First-class), which constrains CROPs' academic career development. The paper offers important implications for potential CROPs, policy, and future research studies.
本研究运用人类发展的生物生态模型，来理解拥有海外博士学位的归国华人（CROPs）的学术职业发展。重点关注CROPs如何通过与环境的互动参与这一过程，这导致了他们在中国高等教育中差异化且相似的职业发展。通过对31名CROPs进行半结构化访谈的定性方法，我们的研究结果表明，CROPs的学术职业发展是由个人特征和多层次的环境背景共同塑造的。该研究突出了在中国建设一流大学和一流学科（双一流）的背景下，中国高等教育系统的功能失调，这限制了CROPs的学术职业发展。本文为潜在的CROPs、政策及未来研究提供了重要启示。
