Full Description
Knowledge Mobility is the New Internationalization: Guiding Educational Globalization One Educator at a Time shows how university-based faculties of education in both developed and developing countries can work together toward professional standards that are based on globally recognized evidence and applied in culturally appropriate, and thus sustainable, ways throughout the world. The last half century of international educational development has generated many positive accomplishments, including school access expansion and curriculum quality improvement. However, it has not produced sustainable or comprehensive results, mainly because key institutions and local culture are frequently ignored. Simultaneous to the production of these mixed results in developing countries, education scholars and faculties of education in wealthier countries have pursued an agenda of professionalization of the educational occupations—through higher qualification requirements, more stringent entry standards, and explicit evidence to guide practice. Furthermore, higher education internationalization has increased its scope and expanded its volume. Yet in these three areas—educational development, educational professionalization, and higher education internationalization—there has rarely been any convergence. This book makes a case for this vital union.
Contents
Notes on Terminology
Introduction
Chapter One: The Inevitability of Globalization in Education
Part One: Internationalization in Higher Education
Chapter Two: International Identity or International Quality: What is an International Education?
Chapter Three: Global Aspirations: The Strategies for the Internationalization of Higher Education
Chapter Four: Following Their Peers or Forging Their Own Way: The Internationalization of Faculties of Education
Part Two: Professionalization of Education and the Role of Faculties of Education
Chapter Five: Advanced and Advancing Educational Systems: Global Metrics, Mindsets of Reform, and the Supporting Sectors
Chapter Six: Academic, Practical, or Both: The Problematic Past and Promising Future of Faculties of Education
Chapter Seven: Local or Global Knowledge: The International Foundations of Professions and Professional Education
Chapter Eight: Global Quality Academic Leadership: How Academic Leaders of Faculties of Education Can Inspire Global Relevance
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