internationalisation of the curriculum: some personal thoughts!

Internationalisation of the curriculum: some personal

thoughts!

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.