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Internationalisation of the curriculum: some personal thoughts!

Internationalisation of the curriculum: some personal thoughts!. Mandy Asghar April 2013. “Despite the rhetoric concerning internalisation of the curriculum, changes mainly focus on inducting international students into the western educational system…”

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Internationalisation of the curriculum: some personal thoughts!

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  1. Internationalisation of the curriculum: some personal thoughts! Mandy Asghar April 2013

  2. “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

  3. An educational colonialist enterprise?

  4. Concerns over standards?

  5. Staff and students invited to become border crossers?

  6. Students felt that staff needed to have an understanding of other cultures • They sometimes felt lonely • Sometimes stereotyped as lazy • Experienced study shock 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Betty Leask • Questionnaire on Internationalisation of the Curriculum.

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