Full Description
This edited volume interrogates the meanings of internationalization in higher education in different political-economic contexts.
Written by multidisciplinary scholars based in different parts of the world (China, Finland, France, Korea, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, UK, USA), the chapters allow the reader to critically 'listen in' on glocalized (global + local) discourses of internationalization in education (meanings, epistemologies, critiques and current research/policies). The volume aims to support students and scholars in clarifying for themselves and others what internationalization might mean and entail, using alternative ways of characterizing, critiquing and unsettling internationalization. The authors adopt critical intercultural perspectives in their chapters, based, for example, on humanistic entry points, the continuum of ideological specificities-commonalities, while balancing self-other (acceptance, rejection), questioning the 'taken for granted' and offering some decolonial analyses and reflections. The volume thus aims to better understand and nuance the polysemic and glocalized nature of internationalization in order to strengthen international cooperation in education (research) and to provide more opportunities to come together to recognize and support, for example, multiple perspectives, experiences and knowledge.
Scholars, students and education professionals interested in higher education, intercultural studies and topics of internationalization and globalization will greatly benefit from the book.
Contents
1. Introduction: Internationalization of higher education beyond simplistic interculturality Part I - Problematizing and strengthening the way we think about the internationalization of education interculturally 2. Internationalization of higher education: What does it mean in the Chinese context? 3. 'Selective internationalization' of higher education: Interculturalization as a power-conscious alternative 4. In praise of cosmopolitan education: Internationalization without (formal) education Part II - Examining internationalization interculturally with and beyond the West 5. Islam, higher education and internationalization through Arabic Medium Education (AME) 6. Internationalization of Korean higher education: A critical appraisal of current practice 7. Global aspirations and local insights: Internationalization and knowledge production in Singapore Part III - Intercultural perspectives on internationalization within the West 8. Internationalization and indigenization in U.S. higher education: Contemporary social-justice education 9. Global competence and languages in the internationalization policies of Spanish higher education 10. Internationalization and interculturality in Finnish education
