World Education Research Association–International Research Network Global Ethics in Higher Education

Session Type: WERA Symposium

Abstract

The EIHE project (funded by the Finnish Academy from 2012-15) is one of the most exciting and challenging international comparative research projects on ethics and higher education, involving a number of WERA GEHE-IRN participants. This symposium explores methodological challenges, strategies and innovations emerging from this mixed-methods project. Key challenges include: the alignment of critical perspectives with the interpretation and generalizability of survey findings; institutional and geographical diversity of research sites; contextual and disciplinary diversity of both respondents and researchers, and their different disciplinary identities and roles. Some key ideas and strategies employed include: the use of historical approaches; postcolonial, post-structuralist and post-positivist theorizing; social cartographies and imaginaries; interdisciplinarity; conceptual and comparative approaches and collective emancipatory pedagogies.

Sub Unit

• World Education Research Association

Chair

• Su-ming Khoo, Sociology and Political Science, NUI Galway

Papers

• Internationalizing Education and Its Discontents: A History of the Present - Roland Sintos Coloma, Miami University

• Troubling Cartographies and Ambivalent Imaginaries: Using Heuristic Models Heuristically - Karen Pashby, University of Alberta; Meeri Hellsten, Södertörn University; Su-ming Khoo, Sociology and Political Science, NUI Galway

• Remembrance, Emancipatory Pedagogies, and the Affective Dynamics of Education - Lisa K. Taylor, Bishop's University

• Are We Really That "Postcolonial"? Perspectives on Internationalization From the Ethical Internationalism in Higher Education (in Times of Crises) (EIHE) Project and the Cases of Scotland and Ireland - Dalene M. Swanson, The University of British Columbia; Su-ming Khoo, Sociology and Political Science, NUI Galway