Abstract
The purpose of the study was to explore the challenges and strategies through meaningfulexperiences from their narratives of four Indonesian doctoral students studied at overseasuniversities. The main focus was to explore four Indonesian doctoral students’ livedexperiences overseas in several aspects such as personal, social, and academic life. This studyalso described the students’ challenges in conducting their research overseas as well as thestrategies they used to face the challenges and the supports they received during their study.This study employed a narrative inquiry method with three-dimensional narrative inquiryspace; interaction, continuity, and situation to better understand lived experiences and researchjourney of each individual in an educational context. The main source of data was an in-depthinterviewseries developed by Seidman (2006). The interviews were analyzed by usingthematic analysis developed by Braun and Clark (2006). The findings showed that severalthemes emerged from the interviews. They were an adaptation to a new environment, researchtopic and research problem, relationship with supervisors, access to research facilities, andsupports from universities.
Highlights
There are more than 35,000 Indonesian studying overseas every year
The main theme that emerges from this research question was the adaptation to a new environment
This theme is consistent with Kolb's theory of experiential learning (2015) that learning is a holistic process of adaptation
Summary
There are more than 35,000 Indonesian studying overseas every year. The number of international students overseas increases every year because more countries offer full scholarships for students who want to study in their country. The Indonesian government has provided more scholarships for Indonesian students especially for lecturers who want to study doctorate. According to the Directorate General of Higher Education (DGHE), in 2017 there were about 237,837 Indonesian lecturers; only 18% (around 21,872 lecturers) of them hold doctorate degrees. These numbers are still far from the target of the Ministry of Education and Culture which determines that at least 30 % of Indonesian lecturers hold doctorate degrees. Studying overseas will benefit in terms of excellent access to the knowledge provided by world-class universities
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