Internationalization as Imperial Text: Faculty Teaching in a Globalizing University

• In Event: 25.086 - Sheraton Roundtable Session One - Grand Centre
  In Roundtable Session: 25.086-7 - Globalizing Postcolonial Studies in Education

Abstract

The intensification of globalization is reflected in the proliferation of internationalization of higher education, illustrating how universities better aligned to market ideologies than educational values and purposes. Arguing that internationalization is an imperial project, this paper questions whether current internationalization practices can advance goals of equity and social justice that are foundational to the mission of higher educational institutions. In this context, this paper explores how neoliberal internationalization can be disrupted through anti-colonial strategies in the classroom. The paper is informed by M.L Pratt’s ideas on transculturation in the contact zone, and data from a study on critical internationalization to illustrate how faculty members in a Western Canadian university improvise their way through curricular and pedagogical encounters.

Author

• Kumari Beck, Simon Fraser University