Internationalisation and the Student Voice

Higher Education Perspectives

Elspeth Jones

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN: 9781135262372
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This groundbreaking volume seeks to take the first steps in analyzing the impact of internationalization initiatives from student perspectives. As programs are increasingly delivered overseas and we seek to offer domestic students an international experience, how do we know what works for students and what does not? Encompassing the fast-growing global imperative is a significant challenge for higher education and this collection identifies opportunities for enrichment of the learning environment, with all chapters based on direct research with students.

The book provides essential reading for anyone engaged in internationalization and wishing to learn more about the impact on students of a range of initiatives in order to apply the lessons in their own contexts. Chapters include student responses to the following learning contexts:

• "traditional" international contexts, where students study outside their home country for shorter or longer periods;
• "trans-national" programs where students study at home or in another country and faculty from the awarding university fly in to deliver courses;
• domestic students studying in their home country, with staff seeking to internationalize the curriculum;
• students having transformational international experiences in other countries through service learning/volunteering, or study abroad

Index

abstracts:

writing 183

academic outcomes:

fears about 136–7, 138

Academic Solidarity Model 177

acculturation:

definition 181

action approach 176

activism 26–7

additive approach 176–7

‘Advanced Qualitative Research’ course 149–50

affective anxiety 129

aggression 119

American Council on Education 99

analysis skills 178–9

anxiety:

affective 129;

intercultural 132;

language 121;

in study interviews 129–30

AOPI Framework 32

asylum seekers 193, 201;

see also refugees Augustine, St. 81

Australia:

cultural environments 171;

international students in 128, 169–79;

studying in 93;

undergraduate performance in 159–60;

volunteering in 89;

see also university internationalised curriculum study

beliefs:

validating 92

Bellarmine University on-line Course:

goals 57;

intervention rationale 57–8;

learning outcomes 57;

peer discussion 56–7, 61–2;

student gains 66–7;

see also study abroad

Bologna declaration 44, 46

border pedagogy 177

Botswana:

students from 173, 174, 176

Bournemouth University:

global perspectives 21, 22

Brazil:

volunteering in 91

British Council 19

Broadening our Horizons 159

Brock University:

exchange programmes 68;

internationalisation mandate 68;

see also SEA programmes

Brock University study:

career discovery 78;

descriptive statistics 71–2;

discovering what we have 78–9;

factors affecting discovery 80;

in-country experience 74–6;

methodology 71;

re-entry 76;

scope of discovery 79;

self-discovery 76–8;

travel motivations 72–4

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Table of contents

• Contents
• Illustrations
• Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• I Student Response to Internationalisation of the Curriculum
• II The Impact of Study Abroad and International Volunteering
• III Student Learning in the Cross-Cultural Classroom
• IV Transnational Education and Support for International Students
• Index