Toward Justice and Ethics in Internationalization in Higher Education: An International Comparative Mapping of National Strategies

• In Event: 61.071 - Questions About Systemic Reform in Global Environments

Abstract

Higher Education Institutions (HEI) are responding to pressures to internationalise through a variety of initiatives and strategies, and internationalisation of HEIs is part of national strategies around the world. The apparent rush to internationalise would benefit from an unpacking of the premises and assumptions in regards to global ethics and of the particular ways that current approaches may cause or neglect ethical issues. Based on a critical discourse analysis of national-level documents promoting internationalisation of institutes of higher education in seven countries, this paper presents a social cartographic mapping of three discursive orientations (neoliberal, liberal, and critical) and their points of intersection to unpack conflations inherent to the normative assumptions underpinning internationalisation and to make intelligible some under-emphasized ethical issues.

Authors

• Karen Pashby, University of Alberta

• Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, The University of British Columbia