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This research will scrutinize the insinuations of bringing in critical management education to Chinese students studying in the UK, and how this could have an impact on their choice of the course for their university study. This research will base on an empirical study of 26 learners studying MBA courses at three university business schools in the United Kingdom 2 new and 1 old university, a case of Nottingham Trend University. The research shows that there are significant problems and barriers of bringing in the tenets students within an educational setting that is formal. These problems greatly contribute to learning styles and cultural diversities that are not compatible with critical intent and values western didactic assumptions procedures that are needed to sustain critical learning and proficient roles of institutional rules and management teachers. The findings illustrate the probability of this paradigm to generate student anxiety and negative emotion, self-doubt, student alienation to sponsor employees, and students morale being lowered. Overall, the insinuation is that substantial efforts are needed for the paradigm to be produced effectively for the Chinese students.

Research questions
The research questions for this study would be Does critical management education determine how Chinese students, who are studying in the United Kingdom select the course for their university study Does introduction of tenets have an effect on course selection by Chinese students studying in the UK does a university learning styles and cultural diversities also have an effect and does students anxiety and negative emotions, and self-doubt also affect their selection of a course.

Research Objective The objective of this research is to enable a wider understanding of the Chinese students experience, by scrutinizing the insinuations of bringing in critical management education to Chinese students studying in the UK, and how this may have an impact on their choice of the course for their university study

Introducing critical management has been disquieting for management educators in the United Kingdom. A few typically impound their trepidations to questioning its practical-relevance to learners. Most of them are yet to be convinced if the crucial intents considered in the critical outlook can be developed within an educational setting that is formal (Willmott H. 1994 pp. 105). Up to now, it is hard to research on didactic issues that are related to management of Chinese students studying in the universities of the United Kingdom. The insinuations of educations critical management are up to now still unknown, and the impacts that are inherent are normally non-examined and hidden. Willmott (1994, pp. 111) argues that there is empirical indication that Chinese students express satisfaction with the critical management on some courses, and they ought to be exposed to an interrogation that is critical.

This research paper will address an empirical study that was conducted in the UK business schools, 2 new and 1 old to scrutinize on insinuations of bringing in management education to Chinese students. The main focus is to identify the impacts of crucial tenets on Chinese students and decipher its insinuations on how this could have affected their choice of the course for their university study.

Literature Review
Basing on the work on critical management didactics over the past few decades, a set of peculiar beliefs or tenets of critical management education has been implemented Bryman, 2008). It seems that the following set of doctrines can be extracted from their workings with regard to management programme design and development.

The prospectus is likely to embrace liberal and humanistic studies and include political, cultural and social cognitive outlooks. Moreover, it is likely to be pertinent to student managers from all saunters of industries and life, encompassing non-return organizations. That is, it ought to summarize financial interests and values that are related to performance, and that are trapped in an instrumental rationality (Willmott, 1994, pp. 117).
The modalities of learning and teaching are likely to encompass an element of crucial reflection to hearten students to query a hidden school-assumption, and those taken for granted get both practice and learning. A reflection that is critical, as Saunders and Thornhill (2006, p. 23) puts it, ought to provide opportunities to query the undiscussable that is, a coherent set of practices, values and beliefs being questioned, which are then disseminated and controlled by lecturers to maintain their justifiable role as being a tutor, and presumptions that are typically obscured during teaching.

The assessment methods are likely to be emancipatory, that is, to promote equal opportunity and treatment, and sustain student empowerment. This emancipatory procedure ought to give Chinese students with opportunities to contest and identify sources of disparity and treatment of minorities, and query the presumptions inherent in lecturers methods of assessment.

Studies by Saunders and Thornhill (2006, p. 29) indicate that the learning environment is likely to have a collective focus, be democratic and participative. Willmott (1994, pp. 123) argues that it ought to be consonant with an erudition milieu that persuades individuals to deeply learn through the intricacy of networks of psychological, social, cultural and institutional variables.

A critical management education is likely to embrace the following features within its pedagogic design and development Reflect the experience and knowledge of students as well as tutors empower learners to be responsible for their own learning critical reflection ought to address issues concerning ethics, race, politics, equality and diversity, and cultures provide with opportunities to query presumptions implicit on learning methods and tutors teaching, and the assessment criteria together with the methods employed involve students in determining the outcomes of learning and permit them to negotiate the criteria for assessment and permit students to be responsible for their performance as well as support student-peer assessment.            

Research paradigm, philosophy and approach
Critical management scholars have been confronting and questioning the management in business school education since the mid 1990s. According to Thornhill and Saunders (2006, p. 29), much empirical evidence indicates that what are entrenched in programmes aims and philosophy, learning and teaching modalities, and the curriculum are not critical because they are undesirable, inaccurate and a large extent irrelevant. Fresh perspectives on management education has been provided by a new cadre of crucial management intellectuals, who have further proposed the adoption of perspectives that are critical, and that not only bestows students critical independent learners with a more complex and deeper multifaceted understanding of liberation, and the cultural, social and political traditions that underlie the formation of organizations and management, but also identifies the philosophical alterations in the business macro environment (Hill, 2008, pp. 70). The approach to be used in this critical management on educators paradigm is an account that is more comprehensive of how a critical perspective can be fostered in a context or a formal educational though, not without critics. All the questionaires were analysed immediately and individually with the aim being to cluster and identify consistent and emergent themes and categories. This process was both deductive and inductive. The inductive process sought dependable themes that were to emerge from the data. A deductive approach was used to add-on the inductive approach to make sure that the researcher does not misconstrue or over-construe the data. Moreover, a foreshadowed theory (theoretical constructs) was applied to sensitize the data. This iterative approach was successfully used within an interpretive-methodological paradigm to cluster and identify categories or emergent themes though maintaining the opulence of the data. Some of the interpretations were cross-examined by research scholars to ensure that the themes credibility was maintained and generated. Overall, the iterative process allowed the refinement of categories and themes when needed (Thornhill  Saunders, 2006, p. 31).

Research design
This research applied a control group design that was non-equivalent, a case of Nottingham Trend University. In an attempt to bring in critical management education to Chinese students studying in the United Kingdom, course selection was post-tested and pre-tested as the dependent variable, interpretative methodology were the independent variable in a graduate course. Basing on Willmott (1994, pp. 127) recommendations, and instructional techniques were to explore the meanings that are subjective to motive students actions in their authentic learning environment so as to fully understand them. A major theoretical foundation, for Critical management education was social-constructionism. Thornhill  Saunders (2006, pp. 31) proposed an instructional design model that was based on ADDIE, which stands for Analysis, Development, Design, Implementation, and Evaluation.

An orientation was conducted in two new and one old university business schools in the United Kingdom as to maximize determine how Chinese students select courses in their university study.

Research method (Methodology)
In this research study, the insinuations of bringing in critical management education to Chinese students studying in the United Kingdom were scrutinized in relation to their acuity of integrating crucial tenets within management programme development and design. This study espoused a methodology that integrated an interpretive paradigm using self-completion questionnaires. As Willmott (1994, pp. 127) assert, an interpretivist methodology was necessary because it discovered the details of the situation to understand the reality or perhaps a reality working behind them, that is, social-constructionism. In accordance with Willmott (1994, pp. 129) argument, it is of necessity to explore the meanings that are subjective to motive students actions in their authentic learning environment so as to fully understand them. Many varied interpretations on the situation may be placed by students in which they find themselves.

This varied interpretations expected to influence their social-interaction nature and their actions with other tutors and student within their business school. That is, students will not only select those courses they can easily interrelate with their learning environment, but they also seek the courses that make sense of the environment through the interpretation of their courses and the meaning they draw fro them. Consecutively, student actions may be deemed as being consequential in the milieu of these socially-constructed meanings and interpretations. One can say that the main objective of espousing an interpretative methodology was to investigate the skewed social reality of students so as to be able to understand their intentions, motives and actions in a manner that is consequential for the research study. A way of capturing as much reality as possible can be offered by an interpretive methodology.

Sampling method
The stratified random sample was used in this research whereby two new and one old university business schools in the United Kingdom took part in this research study. The reason for encompassing new and old universities was to make the overall sample of Chinese students, which are more in the United Kingdoms university business sector. Some indications from a pilot-study suggest that previously the academic cultures and values between the new and old universities were dissimilar. This sample selection took into account these variations. A total sample of 26 Chinese management students took part in this research study. The 26 Chinese management students were both from past and current management courses from the three university business schools in the United Kingdom and were from a range of professional backgrounds such as public sectors, banking, manufacturing, telecommunications and retailing. They were from china and consisted of 16 male and 10 female students with their ages ranging from 25 years to 52 years.

Access issues
This section aimed at synthesizing the access issues. The scope and clustered theme of barriers were drawn directly from the questionnaires discussed. The comments, remarks, and statements while answering the questionnaire were given in a form that was indented. The type of issues that were identified from the analysis in accessing the Chinese students whom this research is interested are Perception of competencies development and positivist schools as being more valuable that education positive perception of the Nottingham trend university management curriculum and student empowerment.

Research limitationschallenges
Most Chinese students differed in their perceptions of critical reflection this had an effect while selecting the course for their university in the United Kingdom, as a case of Nottingham Trend University. Several students did not respond the question in a manner that was satisfactory because they did not quite understand the time. Quite a number disliked the paradigm of critical reflection as contained in the dons of critical management education.

A few Chinese students perceived the process as non-academic, which added no value to some courses, and it contradicted to their expectations in the way it was taught. In general, Chinese students were not comfortable with critical reflective learning and teaching and that is why they opted for some courses in their university study. Most students were confused about course selection because they believed that critical reflection is less-valuable than a more prescriptive and instructive mode of learning and teaching.