Typologising internationalisation in UK university strategies: reputation, mission and attitude

IF 2.6 2区 教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
S. Lomer, Jenna Mittelmeier, S. Courtney
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Abstract

ABSTRACT Although internationalisation underpins many practices in higher education, its adopted approaches can be uneven between institutions and create ambiguous conceptualisations of how it is enacted in practice. Therefore, a whole-sector analysis can provide insight into whether spaces exist for new and innovative approaches to internationalisation, or whether they might be limited by structural inequalities and pressures in the sector. Using the UK as an illustrative case, our research has conducted a qualitative ideal-type analysis of 132 institutional approaches to internationalisation across the sector, as codified in university internationalisation strategy documents and through secondary quantitative data about key internationalisation metrics. Our typology developed three dimensions that shape internationalisation approaches: reputation, mission, and attitude. Our findings outline that universities use their understanding of their reputations and material contexts to determine their missions, and the combination of these shape the dominant emotional tone of strategic approaches to internationalisation. We outline how institutions, on the whole, shape their approaches to internationalisation to fit an existing status quo of global elitism, rather than highlighting new and innovative approaches to internationalisation. The UK case can provide an illustrative example for other diverse sectors in marketised and internationalising contexts.
英国大学国际化战略的类型学:声誉、使命和态度
尽管国际化支撑着高等教育的许多实践,但其所采用的方法在机构之间可能是不平衡的,并且在实践中如何制定的概念上是模糊的。因此,对整个行业的分析可以让我们深入了解,新的和创新的国际化方法是否存在空间,或者它们是否可能受到行业结构性不平等和压力的限制。以英国为例,我们的研究对整个行业的132种机构国际化方法进行了定性的理想型分析,这些方法被编入大学国际化战略文件,并通过关于关键国际化指标的二次定量数据。我们的类型学发展了塑造国际化方法的三个维度:声誉、使命和态度。我们的研究结果表明,大学利用对自身声誉和物质背景的理解来确定自己的使命,而这两者的结合塑造了国际化战略方法的主要情感基调。我们概述了机构总体上如何塑造其国际化方法以适应现有的全球精英主义现状,而不是强调新的和创新的国际化方法。英国的案例可以为其他处于市场化和国际化背景下的不同行业提供一个说明性的例子。
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