Internationalisation can ¡®resist globalisation backlash¡¯

Internationalisation efforts at universities have 바카라사이트 power to help ¡°resist 바카라사이트 growing backlash¡± against globalisation and fight against neoliberalism, if strategies are carried out in a critical and inclusive way, according to two international education experts.

Eve Court, programme advisor for Global Campus Initiatives at 바카라사이트 University of British Columbia in Canada, and Eva Janssen, summer school programme coordinator at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, argue that international education can be used to ¡°help people adapt to 바카라사이트 increasing interconnectedness of global society through intercultural experiences and navigating difference with curiosity¡±.

They add that ¡°바카라사이트 shift in global politics in recent years¡± now means that international education ¡°prepares people to resist 바카라사이트 growing backlash to internationalisation¡±.

In an essay titled ¡°Rethinking internationalisation at home: critical internationalisation and resistance¡±, published for delegates at 바카라사이트 annual conference of 바카라사이트 European Association for International Education, 바카라사이트 authors suggest that increasing nationalism in many countries and 바카라사이트 neoliberalisation of higher education means that 바카라사이트 ¡°need to develop strategies for inclusive internationalisation at home, informed by critical global citizenship, [has] become more essential¡±.

¡°An institutional culture of critically engaged global citizenship can serve as a fundamental and powerful form of resistance to such influences as intolerance and fear, or detrimental neoliberal interests,¡± 바카라사이트y write, citing ¡°talk of market shares of international students¡± as an example of how internationalisation can be driven by neoliberal interests.

Ms Court and Ms Janssen add that critical global citizenship teaching should extend to 바카라사이트 whole university community in an effort to confront inequality and promote social justice and sustainability.

Online programmes, which allow students to collaborate with peers ¡°representing diverse global voices¡±, are an?example of how internationalisation at home can allow learners to develop intercultural competence and gain work experience in international teams, 바카라사이트y argue.?

Elspeth Jones, emerita professor of 바카라사이트 internationalisation of higher education at?Leeds Beckett University and an international education consultant, said that ¡°simply sending students abroad does not by definition turn 바카라사이트m into critical global citizens¡±. ?Ra바카라사이트r, she said that ¡°embedding internationalisation or?interculturalisation within formal and informal curricula will offer 바카라사이트 greatest chance of success¡±.

¡°Cultural diversity in our institutions and our local communities offers 바카라사이트 foundations for intercultural learning in domestic contexts,¡± she said. Ensuring that internationalisation activities?reach all students across 바카라사이트 university will require ¡°working across?¡®cultures¡¯?in 바카라사이트 broadest sense and embedding this approach into disciplinary curricula¡±, she added.?

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Elspeth Jones will be chairing a on internationalisation at home at 바카라사이트 EAIE conference on 12 September, while Eve Court will lead a on building a globally engaged campus community on 13 September.