Full Description
This volume investigates how international students in and from the Middle East are constructed by nations, institutions, other students, and themselves. Making a valuable contribution to understanding the nuances and complexities of educational politics and priorities affecting these constructions, the text considers the broader impacts of discourse on internationalisation.
Offering a unique combination of critical analysis of educational policies combined with empirical contributions through authors' own research, chapters highlight intersections between politics, the internationalisation of higher education, and the construction of mobile learners. Emphasising variation and nuance in the internationalisation of policies in the Gulf Cooperation Countries, and other Middle Eastern countries, the volume offers a theoretical framework to help understand the political, educational, and ethical implications of emerging constructions of international students and their comparison across the Middle East.
This timely volume will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in higher education, international and comparative education, as well as the Middle East more specifically. Those involved with educational education policy and politics, specifically related to the Middle East, will also benefit from this volume.
Contents
Editorial: Constructions of (Inter-)National(-ised) Students in the Middle East: Comparative Critical Perspectives
Aneta Hayes and Sally Findlow
Part I: Theorising "Internationalised" Students: Points of Departure for Macro-Level Analyses
1: Which Students are "International" at an International Branch Campus? Problematising "International" when Universities and Students Cross Borders
Jason Lane and Christine Farrugia
2: Internationalisation of Higher Education in the Middle East and North Africa
Giulia Marchesini and Holly Johnstone
3: Gulf Cooperation Council Academic Mobility: What Works, for Whom and Why?
Clare Walsh
4: The Representation of International Students: Student Mobility from the Middle East to Turkey
Omer Caliskan and Hilal Buyukgoze
5: International Credit Mobilities of Syrians during Conflict: Opportunities and Challenges
Sulaiman Mouselli
Part II: Representations of Internationally (and Intra-Regionally) Mobile Students in and from the Middle East
6: Between Foreigners and Family: Social Media Representations of International Students in Israeli Universities
Annette Bamberger
7: Constructing Self through Transnational Nursing Education in the Middle East
Wendy Maddison
8: Ready, Willing, and Able? Exploring the Relationships and Experiences of International Students at a Federal University in the United Arab Emirates
Natalie I. Cruz, Jobila W. Sy, Cassandra Shukla, and Alisha Tysor
9: Syrian Students' Academic Mobility Struggle and Alternative Options
Ranwa Khorsheed, Susan Deeb, and Rasha al-Dahhan
