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{"title":"Learning to unlearn: exploring the relationship between internationalisation and decolonial agendas in higher education","authors":"C. Montgomery, S. Trahar","doi":"10.1080/07294360.2023.2194054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2194054","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article we consider the resonances between internationalisation and decolonising initiatives in the university. Based on our own experiences, as white, British, female scholars, of engaging with both internationalisation and decolonising agendas through our two decades of research and practice in these fields, we consider the parallels between these two strong initiatives. We feel that there are many resonances and opportunities for learning across them and that there is potential strength and solidarity in outlining the ways in which these two agendas can be mutually supportive. Using a discursive approach embedded in literature in the field, we argue that setting internationalisation and decoloniality alongside each other may enable an understanding of culture, race and whiteness; knowledge production; positions and positionality which could inform ways forward for both agendas. Through our reflexive conversations in this article, we aim to illustrate the ways in which internationalisation may perpetuate coloniality and yet how it can advance the decolonial possibilities of higher education, suggesting that the circularity may be broken by learning to unlearn and finding a common language between the two agendas.","PeriodicalId":48219,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education Research & Development","volume":"81 1","pages":"1057 - 1070"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83903380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Academic staff on their engagement with curriculum internationalisation: an organisational change perspective","authors":"Franka van den Hende, J. Riezebos","doi":"10.1080/07294360.2023.2193724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2193724","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Studies about curriculum internationalisation in higher education frequently report poor academic staff engagement hindering implementation in practice. However, such research does not consider the organisational context in which academics operate. This research applies an organisational change perspective to explore how the context affects the process of engagement and implementation and what to change (content). In a comparative case study of four disciplinary contexts in a West-European university from 2012 to 2020, we disclose the perceptions and experiences of twenty-nine academic staff through in-depth interviews. The academics explain how multiple contextual tensions and inadequate resource management complicate their engagement with curriculum internationalisation. Still, they also reveal evidence of many achievements and strong individual drivers with curriculum internationalisation. Our findings show how disciplinary contextual influences and dynamics create specific perceptions and experiences of curriculum internationalisation in each study programme. This article presents a comprehensive framework of organisational change to explain and facilitate academic staff engagement with curriculum internationalisation in disciplinary communities.","PeriodicalId":48219,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education Research & Development","volume":"125 1","pages":"1247 - 1266"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73769974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New developments in internationalisation of higher education","authors":"L. Tran, Jisu Jung, Lisa Unangst, S. Marshall","doi":"10.1080/07294360.2023.2216062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2216062","url":null,"abstract":"Internationalisation has been a strategic vehicle to transform higher education and become a prominent trend in universities across the world in the past decades. Internationalisation of higher education is drawing growing attention from the broader community outside the education sector, especially as its rationales, operations and impacts more closely align with social, cultural, economic and political interests. It is increasingly subject to public policy turbulences related to migration, workforce, post-study work rights and economics. In particular, international education has been growingly used as a mechanism to address skills shortage and support nation-building in some study destination countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Germany and the international education and migration nexus or ‘edugration’ trend (Brunner, 2023) becomes more visible. Internationalisation of higher education has been affected by the development of digital technologies and both local and global online e-learning markets, while at the same time encountering heightened insecurity and vulnerability to pandemic, financial, geo-political crises and natural disasters. In ‘catching-up’ countries in internationalisation of higher education such as Turkey and Poland, political instability, economic importance, socio-cultural norms and historical legacies, and the country’s position as a periphery are seen as national barriers to facilitating international education (Bulut Sahin & Brooks, 2023). These emerging challenges have led to changes and variations in policy frameworks, institutional operations and individual practices in internationalisation of higher education. These issues have significant implications for the quality, recovery, sustainability, and ethical development of international education. The articles in this Special Issue probe into the re-conceptualisation of international education in diverse ways and to varied extents. However, they underscore a critical need to shed a more humanistic view on internationalisation of higher education. International education should, in essence, be centred around enriching human beings. It is therefore crucial to strive towards humanisation of international education. Humanisation of international education can take place in various forms. First, humanisation of international education underscores the need for the human values of international education to be more explicitly brought to the fore. Scholars have argued for the critical need to move beyond the discourse framing the value of international students predominantly in economic terms and international education as commercialisation, strongly influenced by reputational status and resourcing (Lomer et al., 2023), to acknowledge international students as human beings with potential to contribute to transnational education, culture, society, local communities and politics (Rizvi, 2020; Soong & Maheepalaa, 2023; Tran, 2020). Second, humanising internationa","PeriodicalId":48219,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education Research & Development","volume":"26 1","pages":"1033 - 1041"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72804266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A caring transformation of international education: possibilities, challenges and change","authors":"Andrew Deuchar, Radhika Gorur","doi":"10.1080/07294360.2023.2193726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2193726","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound impacts on all facets of international education. Not only has it highlighted the inadequacy of existing care arrangements but it has also created new care needs. There is increased recognition among policy makers and education providers that they need to understand and support the wellbeing of international students more effectively – and indeed with greater care. Drawing on sociomaterial theories of care, this article considers the possibilities of care as a guiding principle for orienting the transformation of international education in more productive directions. Its central contention is that a focus on care will be vitally important for fostering the wellbeing of international students and for creating an institutional environment that more successfully attracts, retains, and supports them. Yet more than this, it will be crucial for redefining and realising the ambitious aims of international education itself. This article substantiates these claims by offering three ‘sketches’ of how a focus on care might reframe international education policy, institutional support, and point to new directions in research on international student mobility.","PeriodicalId":48219,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education Research & Development","volume":"295 1","pages":"1197 - 1211"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73318900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Internationalization of higher education in tumultuous times: transformative powers and problems in embattled Ukraine","authors":"A. Oleksiyenko, Ielyzaveta Shchepetylnykova, Uliana Furiv","doi":"10.1080/07294360.2023.2193727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2193727","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Previous research has conceptualized and investigated internationalization of higher education in relatively stable and peaceful environments. Studies on internationalization in the context of war are largely absent. Using interviews and survey responses from Ukrainian professors and administrators affected by the Russian invasion of 2014–2022, this paper re-examines the premises of internationalization, and outlines key dilemmas facing universities in times of existential crisis. The study reveals that the transformative powers of crisis-driven internationalization redefine ontological and axiological foundations of universities. University stakeholders readjust their responsibilities to reduce human vulnerability, while international solidarity helps them mitigate fragility in the war-affected academia.","PeriodicalId":48219,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education Research & Development","volume":"23 1","pages":"1103 - 1118"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84443540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Settler nation-building through immigration as a rationale for higher education: a critical discourse analysis","authors":"L. Brunner","doi":"10.1080/07294360.2023.2193732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2193732","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 As education-migration (edugration) blurs the line between international student and immigrant recruitment in some jurisdictions, higher education admission is becoming linked to settler nation-building projects. Using critical discourse analysis, this article examines the Canadian higher education sector’s response to COVID-19 through pre-budget submissions to the House of Commons of Canada Standing Committee on Finance for the 2021 federal budget. Findings demonstrate how institutions instrumentalized international students to position themselves as valuable actors in Canada’s immigration regime and justify their requests for public financial support. In this way, nation-building through immigration – both globally, as an imperial power, and domestically, as a colonial power – is now a new societal role of higher education which is becoming hegemonic within institutions. This is significant because, as higher education’s purposes align with those of economic immigration, the sector not only fails to interrupt, but itself reproduces, systemic patterns of border imperialism and settler-colonialism. The article urges higher education institutions to (1) more deeply consider how a reliance on international student enrolment is impacting its societal roles, while also (2) avoid exceptionalizing the present by recognizing that higher education has long functioned in the service of the state as a colonial and imperialist power.","PeriodicalId":48219,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education Research & Development","volume":"16 1","pages":"1086 - 1102"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85128349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Humanising the internationalisation of higher education: enhancing international students’ wellbeing through the capability approach","authors":"H. Soong, Vihara Maheepala","doi":"10.1080/07294360.2023.2193730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2193730","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The international student experience has strategically transformed the internationalisation of higher education globally. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, international student wellbeing has decreased. To enhance their wellbeing, we argue international students’ experience should be broadened to include community engagement, thereby increasing core capabilities for, by and with international students. Using Sen’s capability approach as a conceptual framework, we conducted a study in South Australia during the height of the pandemic. Partnering with one local non-for-profit organisation, we asked: ‘How have engagements with the local community affected international students’ capabilities to enhance their wellbeing?’ We offer critical interpretivist perspectives to report on a pilot study of 75 survey responses and 18 in-depth interviews. The findings identify diverse macro-structural forces that form a social context which has marginalised the students. Despite contingent and tenuous social relations and contexts, with support from the community outside the university, some students converted their capabilities to fortify their wellbeing. This study is critical given that the goal of re-strategising internationalisation of higher education begins from the students’ needs through an effective partnership between universities and communities.","PeriodicalId":48219,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education Research & Development","volume":"114 1","pages":"1212 - 1229"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77560622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Innovation and Practice of Values Education Through Curriculum in the Course of Electromagnetic Fields and Electromagnetic Waves","authors":"Xiaoqing Jiang, Chang Wei, Nianqiang Li, Lingyin Wang, Yue Zhao, Xiaoqian Fu","doi":"10.11648/j.her.20230803.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.her.20230803.13","url":null,"abstract":": Values education through curriculum is popular in current Chinese higher education and plays an important role in the training of new engineering talents. For the Electromagnetic Fields and Electromagnetic Waves course, there are problems needed to be solved, such as unclear selection mechanism of values or ideological and political elements and cases, and the gap between the fixed knowledge system of classical electromagnetism and the rapid development of telecommunication technology. In this paper, the clear construction and implementation methods of values education through curriculum in this course are proposed, and the value education elements and cases are selected according to both of the actual needs of the country and social and technological development. Through the reconstruction, expansion and modularization of course content, a blended online and offline teaching method is adopted in the class of Electromagnetic Fields and Electromagnetic Waves to achieve deep integration of theory, technology, and values education. The cultivation of students' knowledge, ability, innovation, and value are emphasized in the whole teaching and learning process. Since the implementation of the values education through curriculum, the achievement of student training goals has been significantly improved, promoting the implementation of teaching reform. The mode and experiences of innovation and practice of values education through curriculum in this course is potential to promote to relevant majors nationwide","PeriodicalId":48219,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education Research & Development","volume":"178 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79952490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On the Necessity and Ways of Offering Writing and Communication Courses in Applied Undergraduate Programs","authors":"Jinhui Zhao","doi":"10.11648/j.her.20230803.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.her.20230803.12","url":null,"abstract":": In the construction of the teaching system of applied undergraduate programmes, the value of \"application\" is highlighted, and high-quality talents with strong social adaptability and competitiveness are cultivated, which has certain requirements for the communication, writing, teamwork and innovation abilities of university students. Currently, there are many problems in writing among university students, who do not pay enough attention to writing courses and rely too much on artificial intelligence to write, lacking creative independence. The lack of writing skills also brings with it many problems, as many students find it difficult to write project books and application essays when they enter society, which does not help them to adapt quickly to the workplace. At the same time, communication skills are an important assessment factor for graduates when they first enter the workplace, and many general education courses at this stage neglect the development of communication skills. Therefore, in order to quickly solve the dilemma of the teaching mode of traditional writing courses, Liaoning Institute of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation offers the Writing and Communication course, which starts and ends with improving students' writing and communication in the workplace, and is student-centred, helping students to improve their writing and communication in the workplace and develop critical thinking skills through innovative teaching modes and improved assessment and evaluation, which helps to improve students' overall quality and cultivate Application-oriented talents.","PeriodicalId":48219,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education Research & Development","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79051403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Construction of a Postgraduate Teaching System with Deep Integration of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ability Cultivation for Microelectromechanical Systems Major","authors":"Zaifa Zhou","doi":"10.11648/j.her.20230803.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.her.20230803.14","url":null,"abstract":": Strengthening the cultivation of the innovation and entrepreneurship abilities for postgraduate students is a practical need for the country to implement the innovation driven development strategy, and also an inevitable requirement for establishing an innovative country. This paper discusses some problems faced by the cultivation of the innovation and entrepreneurship abilities for postgraduate students. Based on the research on the construction of the curriculum system of postgraduate students majored in Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) in Southeast University, P.R. China, this paper presents the ideas and plans for the construction of the teaching system integrating the cultivation of innovation and entrepreneurship abilities. By promoting the implementation of this plan, the discipline of MEMS in Southeast University has made some achievements in the cultivation of innovative and entrepreneurial talents. A survey indicates that 37.7% of the postgraduate students from the discipline of MEMS expressed a willingness to start their own businesses within 5 years after graduation. At the same time, over 35.9% of the postgraduate students stated that they have certain or good innovation and entrepreneurship abilities and potentials. This can provide useful reference for the cultivation of innovation and entrepreneurship abilities of postgraduate students in other universities","PeriodicalId":48219,"journal":{"name":"Higher Education Research & Development","volume":"87 25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84048298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}