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Desperately seeking the global subject: international education, citizenship and cosmopolitanism
John Matthews,Ravinder Sidhu +1 more
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The authors argue that the economic, political and cultural changes associated with globalisation do not automatically give rise to globally oriented and supra-territorial forms of subjectivity, and that the tendency of educational institutions such as schools to privilege narrowly instrumental cultural capital perpetuates and sustains normative national, cultural and ethnic identities.Abstract:
This article takes the case of international education and Australian state schools to argue that the economic, political and cultural changes associated with globalisation do not automatically give rise to globally oriented and supra-territorial forms of subjectivity. The tendency of educational institutions such as schools to privilege narrowly instrumental cultural capital perpetuates and sustains normative national, cultural and ethnic identities. In the absence of concerted efforts on the part of educational institutions to sponsor new forms of global subjectivity, flows and exchanges like those that constitute international education are more likely to produce a neo-liberal variant of global subjectivity.read more
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Student Mobilities, Migration and the Internationalization of Higher Education
Rachel Brooks,Johanna Waters +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on student mobility, migration, and the internationalization of higher education, drawing on case studies of mobile students from East Asia, mainland Europe and the UK, and discuss the implications of their movement for contemporary higher education and for our understanding of migration more generally.
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Research on Globalization and Education
TL;DR: The major global educational discourses are about the knowledge economy and technology, lifelong learning, global migration or brain circulation, and neoliberalism as mentioned in this paper, and the major institutions contributing to global education discourses and actions are the World Bank, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Trade Organization, the United Nations, and UNESCO.
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A Foundation for the Internationalization of the Academic Self
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the limitations of contemporary organizational theory on the internationalization of higher education in guiding and supporting internationalization activities at the level of the academic Self and provide a way forward through Cranton's notion of authenticity in teaching in higher education, which presents a platform for understanding the academic self through critically reflective and self-reflective processes.
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Graduating as a ‘native speaker’: international students and English language proficiency in higher education
TL;DR: This paper explored alternative understandings of language proficiency in internationalized higher education and found that improved communication skills among graduates are likely to be achieved through a better understanding of the socio-cultural theories of language learning and academic literacy.
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Transnational Connections: Culture, People, Places
TL;DR: Hannerz as mentioned in this paper argues that national understandings of culture have become insufficient and explores the implications of boundary-crossings and long-distance cultural flows for established notions of "the local", "community", "nation" and "modernity".
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Ethnicity and the Multicultural City: Living with Diversity:
TL;DR: In the wake of the race disturbances in Oldham, Burnley, and Bradford in Summer 2001, the author explores the possibilities for intercultural understanding and dialogue as discussed by the authors, arguing that although the national frame of racial and ethnic relations remains important, much of the negotiation of difference occurs at the very local level, through everyday experiences and encounters.
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The Transnational Capitalist Class
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a global system theory of the Transnational Capitalist Class and the struggle for the environment, focusing on the transnational corporations and their role in the global economy.
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The Cosmopolitan Society and Its Enemies
TL;DR: In the 21st century, the conditio humana cannot be understood nationally or locally but only globally as discussed by the authors, and this constitutes a revolution in the social sciences, which constitutes a change in the way of thinking.