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Taking a critical stance toward internationalization ideologies in higher education: idealism, instrumentalism and educationalism
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The authors suggests that difficulties in the implementation of internationalization policies in higher education can be explained by the fact that universities are guided by divergent understandings of the term "internationalization" as well as by diverging or even contradictory ideologies.Abstract:
This article suggests that difficulties in the implementation of internationalization policies in higher education can be explained by the fact that universities are guided by divergent understandings of the term ‘internationalization’ as well as by diverging or even contradictory ideologies. This text, therefore, critically singles out and investigates three internationalization ideologies, referred to as idealism, instrumentalism and educationalism with a special emphasis on their explicit as well as implicit visions, foci, goals and strategies.read more
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On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
TL;DR: In this paper, Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work, and explores the gap between symbolic commitments to diversity and the experience of those who embody diversity.
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Internationalisation, planetary citizenship and Higher Education Inc.
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Internationalisation, intercultural communication and intercultural competence
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Internationalisation, intercultural communication and intercultural competence
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assume that the internationalization of higher education demands more elaborate pedagogical approaches to utilize the experiences of multiethnic student groups and to facilitate every student's acquisition of intercultural competencies.
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Internationalisation and migrant academics : The hidden narratives of mobility
TL;DR: The authors explored the hidden narratives of migrant academics' engagements with mobility in the global knowledge economy and concluded that there is a complex coagulation of opportunities and constraints, raising questions about whose knowledge is circulating in global academy.
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