44.035 - Historical Perspectives on Critical Internationalization

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Although critical dialogue of internationalization in American institutions of higher education is increasing, detailed historical analysis of such movements is comparatively lacking. These papers focus on the decades between 1930 and the 2000s, drawing connections between world events, epistemological shifts, policies and practices. This panel tracks an evolution from the "world citizen" of the 1930s to the elite study abroad movement of the '50s and '60s to the global citizenship movements of today's American universities. It also focuses on the banality of power and ideology -- the everyday academic practices in which elite interests are solidified and inequalities are magnified through the discourse of "exchange."

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 4: Social Contexts of Educational Policy and Politics

Chair

• Lynette Anne Shultz, University of Alberta

Papers

• What Happened to the "International Mind" Movements? 1930s Curricular Reform and 1940s Gatekeeping in Elite American Universities - Bryan McAllister-Grande, Harvard University

• Legitimizing Exclusivity in Education Abroad: Roots of Selectivity in U.S. Undergraduate Study Abroad, 1950s–1970 - Eduardo Contreras, University of Portland

• Tracing the Evolution of Education Abroad Program Models into the Age of the Corporate University: Perils and Possibilities - Julie Ficarra, Syracuse University

Discussant

• Lynette Anne Shultz, University of Alberta