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Call for papers: Practising the Internationalization of Higher Education
AAG Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, USA, 22-27 March 2009
Session organizer: Heike Jöns, Loughborough University
Over the past two decades, practices of internationalization in higher
education have become a priority for many individuals, institutions and
governments, and they also have considerably diversified (Knight 2003;
Teichler 2004). In the early 1990s, the historically significant mobility of
students and academic staff gained new momentum as part of recent
globalization processes, while conversations about the internationalization of
higher education focussed on two main areas, namely academic mobility of
students and staff and curriculum development (OECD 1996). Since that time,
the establishment of international university networks, transnational academic
programs and branch campuses abroad has contributed to close ties between
academic institutions in different parts of the world and promoted the
emergence of new ‘global educational hubs’ in places such as India, China and
Singapore (Olds 2007; Hoyler and Jöns 2008). Building on a growing interest in
the transnational spaces of higher education and the formation of the global
knowledge economy (Waters 2006; Hanson Thiem 2008; Olds and Robertson
2008), this session aims to critically interrogate recent strategies and
practices of academic networking across national boundaries.
Papers might focus on the international dimension of:
* Academic mobility of students and staff;
* Research collaborations;
* Curriculum development, joint academic programs, twinning programs and
commercial export/import of education programs;
* Branch campuses;
* Development projects;
* University associations and networks.
If you are interested in participating in this session, please send title and
abstract (of no more than 250 words) to Heike Jöns ([log in to unmask]) by
9th October 2008 at the latest. The AAG abstract specifications can be found
at http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2009/papers.htm#abstracts.
References
Hanson Thiem, C (2008) Thinking through education: The geographies of
contemporary educational restructuring. Progress in Human Geography,
available through OnlineFirst, doi:10.1177/0309132508093475, 1-20.
Hoyler, M and Jöns, H (2008) Global knowledge nodes and networks. In:
Johnson, C, Hu, R and Abedin, S (eds) Connecting cities: Networks. Sydney:
Metropolis, 127-151. (available online at
http://www.metropoliscongress2008.com/)
Knight, J (2003) Internationalization of higher education: Practices and
priorities: 2003 IAU survey report. Paris: International Association of
Universities.
OECD (ed.) (1996) Internationalisation of higher education. Paris: OECD.
Olds, K (2007) Global assemblage: Singapore, foreign universities, and the
construction of a ‘global education hub’. World Development 35(6), 959-975.
Olds, K and Robertson, S (eds) (2008) GlobalHigherEd: Surveying the
construction of global knowledge/spaces for the ‘knowledge economy’.
http://globalhighered.wordpress.com/ (accessed on 22 September 2009).
Teichler, U (2004) The changing debate on internationalisation of higher
education. Higher Education 48(1), 5–26.
Waters, JL (2006) Emergent geographies of international education and social
exclusion. Antipode 38(5), 1046-1068.
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