Ethical Internationalization in Universities: Mapping Student Perceptions of Global Citizenship in Canada and Kenya

• In Event: Higher Education and Professional Practice in International Contexts

Abstract

It is challenging to find a university not aiming to internationalise. Global citizenship is a companion concept. As part of a larger international project examining how internationalisation strategies in higher education step over and/or instigate ethical issues, this paper presents findings from student surveys from one university in Canada and one university in Kenya. Students were asked how they imagine a global citizen should think, relate and/or act in the world. Analyses of their answers will consider the extent to which the data demonstrate that a) global citizenship can be a shifting signifier that enables spaces for articulating ethical and social responsibility for global justice, and b) the extent to which these possibilities are extremely reduced in a neoliberal context.

Authors

• Karen Pashby, University of Alberta

• Lynette Anne Shultz, University of Alberta