Internationalisation of the curriculum: some personal thoughts!
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Internationalisation of the curriculum: some personal
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Mandy AsgharApril 2013
“Despite the rhetoric concerning internalisation of the curriculum, changes mainly focus on inducting international students into the western educational system…”
Clifford V (2009) The necessity to empower students to challenge and reshape higher education curricula in a global age, Reflecting Education Vol 5, No. 1, February 2009, pp. 4-15 http://reflectingeducation.net
An educational colonialist enterprise?
Concerns over standards?
Staff and students invited to become border crossers?
• Students felt that staff needed to have an understanding of other cultures
• They sometimes felt lonely • Sometimes stereotyped as lazy• Experienced study shockClifford V (2009) The necessity to empower students to challenge and reshape
higher education curricula in a global age, Reflecting Education Vol 5, No. 1, February 2009, pp. 4-15 http://reflectingeducation.net
• Changing the approach to the curriculum– Contributions– Additive– Transformative– Action
Banks (1993) cited in Morey, A. (2000) Changing Higher Education Curricula for a Global and Multicultural World, Higher Education in Europe, Vol. XXV, No. 1
• Or– Exclusive – Inclusive– Transformative
Kitano (1997) cited in Morey, A. (2000) Changing Higher Education Curricula for a Global and Multicultural World, Higher Education in Europe, Vol. XXV, No. 1
• Betty Leask
• Questionnaire on Internationalisation of the Curriculum.