Transcript Sues Presentation

Internationalisation of HE:
perspectives from Brazil and the UK
Sue Robson
[email protected]
timetable
• 10.00 Welcome and introductions
• 10.10 Marília Morosini, Coordinator of the Higher Education Studies Center – CEES/
PUCRS.
Brazilian Higher Education: Expansion, Affirmative Action and internationalization
• 10.40 questions and discussion.
• 10.50 Sue Robson, Newcastle University. Internationalisation of Higher Education:
Benefits and Challenges in a competitive global environment.
• 11.20 questions and discussion
• 11.30-11.45 coffee
• 11.45 speed dating: participants share research interests and experiences
• 12.25 Identify themes of common interest, key priorities, potential partnerships
• 12.45-13.30 lunch and networking
• 13.30 Ana Wertheimer, Academic Mobility Office, PUCRS
• 13.50 questions and discussion
• 14.00 Alina Schartner. Perceptions of ‘internationalisation at home’ and ‘global
citizenship’ among higher education students and staff
• 14.20-14.50 Group activity - diamond ranking of themes and priorities
• 14.50-15.00 Plenary
Internationalisation
• Key contemporary debate and strategic priority in HE,
at institutional and national levels - generally
presented as ‘a good thing’
in an environment of heightened competition, how do we
• balance the pros and cons, address the challenges, embrace
the opportunities? (de Wit, Hunter et al., 2015)
• reassess HE purposes, priorities and processes of
internationalisation (Caruana and Spurling, 2007; Tadaki
and Tremewan, 2013)
• review why do we do certain things …. and whether they
achieve the goal of quality of education and research in a
globalized knowledge society? (Brandenburg and de Wit,
2011)
Research review 1996-2011
analyses on IoHE and special issues
Highly normative positioning (IoHE = positive/important)
key thematic area in Higher Education journals
targeting practitioners and policy makers
links between various internationally oriented activities e.g.
student mobility, knowledge transfer, cooperation
• Research dependent on external funding- few key
researchers engage continuously with the issue
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Kehm, 2011.
Review of research into IoHE
• mobility of students and staff and programmes
• mutual influences of HE systems on each other:
supranational organisations a driving force
• internationalisation of teaching and learning
and research - new actors
• strategies
• knowledge transfer
• models of cooperation and competition
• national and subnational policies: geographical perspectives
have broadened
• increase in conceptually and methodologically ambitious
studies
Kehm, 2011
research methods
literature review
documentary analysis
interviews
questionnaire surveys
substantial number of case studies (countries,
institutions, programmes, actors)
• a minority of comparative studies
from US, UK, Europe, Australia + China, Russia, Japan,
Germany, France, Latin America
Kehm, 2011
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Future themes
• relationship between centre and periphery
• the zeitgeist
• competitive internationalisation - opportunities and
problems, strengths and weaknesses
• IaH- international and intercultural learning in core
activities of T and L and R
• dialectics of normalisation and specialisation
Kehm, 2011
Review of IoHE literature 2008-2014:
Ten dominant themes
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IaH (27.2%)
Mobility (9.6%)
National policy (8.3%)
Internationalisation abroad (7.9%)
English as a lingua franca (4.9%)
ICT/online learning (4.1%)
Competition (4%)
multicultural issues (3.9%)
QA (2.1%)
LLL (1.9%)
Yemini and Sagie, 2015
Discourses and practices of internationalisation
• from ongoing practices and rhetorics of globalization have emerged a
new set of actors, logics and relations between and beyond institutions
of higher education and research (Tadaki and Tremewan, 2013)
• Potential of networks to contribute to capacity building and
intercultural learning (Sidhu and Dall’Alba, 2013; Hanson, 2010; Tadaki
and Tremewan 2013)
Dimensions of Internationalisation
people
Cultural
context
Activity
Culture
Values
place
Knowledge
programmes
NU seminar, May 2015. Rethinking IoHE: methodological
and conceptual challenges
• Internationalisation: challenges for critical collaborative leadership in
HE (Finland)
• Reimagining International Communities of Scholars: from (w)here to
possible futures (Sweden)
• Formative peer assessment to facilitate students’ academic and
intercultural learning (China)
• Transcultural approaches: reciprocal learning and dialogue (UK/Aus)
• Ethical IoHE (Finland)
• New forms of internationalisation and the rise of the East (UK)
• Narrative enquiry – staff and student experiences/perceptions (UK,
Denmark)
• Towards an integrated conceptual model of international student
adjustment and adaptation (UK)
UK Thai network: emerging research themes
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Programme evaluation
IoC
Englishisation
Staff and student experiences
Game-based learning and
internationalisation
• narrative inquiry
• what it means to be critical in
academic discourse
• mobile identities of international
early career academics and PhD
students
Alisios Short paper 2: Internationalisation strategies in
Europe and Brazil
Internationalisation trends in Europe:
• Internationalisation viewed as a process
• Internationalisation is more than academic mobility
• Internationalisation has become a transversal issue:
mobility benefits not only staff and students but also
institutions, employers, economies, local and global
communities in broad and complex ways
(Collici, Costa, and Silva, 2015)
Internationalisation trends in Brazil
• stronger in R than T - research excellence in health,
agriculture, computing.
• partnerships
• mobility
• social responsibility in IoHE, Brazilian Association for
International Education conference, April 2016
• networking (supported by Brazilian Association for
International Education (FAUBAI) and Coimbra groups of
Brazilian universities (GCUB)
• there are multiple ways of practising international[isation] .... under the
same mission statement Tadaki and Tremewan, 2013
• the deliberative development of progressive narratives of practice seems to
be a viable and valuable pursuit for consortia.’Tadaki and Tremewan, 2013
• a focus on social, cultural and values-driven goals (Andreotti et al., 2015) to
‘create a set of potent heuristics for generative theorization’ (Odora
Hoppers, 2009).
• Internationalisation increasingly involves intensive networking
among institutions, scholars, students and with other actors such as
industry. International research has been strengthened by the dense
networking between institutions and cross-border funding of
research activities (OECD, 2012)
maximising the benefits of networks
• sustained support to networks (HR and finance).
• network objectives help the long term development of
institution(s).
• groups focus on areas of genuine, long-term interest.
• open and honest communication
• leadership of the network ensures continuity, innovation
and commitment
• disseminate the outputs
OECD 2012
Internationalisation as……
• Knowledge creation
/dissemination
• entrepreneurialism
• personal and professional
transformations
• recruitment
• international pedagogies,
curriculum
• responsible, comprehensive
engagement
• intercultural understanding,
reciprocity
• conceptual and theoretical
advances
• rankings
• branding
• prestige
By understanding the discourses and practices
of internationalization as always ‘in the making’, we can
draw our attention to where and how certain ideas,
projects and norms of internationalization become
established, and perhaps we can expand our ability to
make them differently.
Tadaki and Tremewan, 2013
Journal of Studies in International Education
Journal of Studies in International Education
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Collici, E., Costa, A.S., Silva, R., (2015) Alisios Short Paper 2, April 2015.
Internationalisation Strategies in Europe and Brazil and the impact of SW Borders.
European Parliament. 2015. Hans de Wit, Fiona Hunter, Eva Egron-Polak and Laura
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Emerging themes