Is the Internationalization of Higher Education Perpetuating Coloniality?

• In Event: Current Issues in Postcolonial Studies in Education

Abstract

This paper aims to expose and unpack some of the dimensions of the dominant internationalization strategy in higher education by addressing its colonial roots and by stressing its binary and Western-centric knowledge production. Within this internationalization scholarship, the role of education is inevitably both limited and limiting. In some cases, the internationalization has been narrowly defined in terms of adopting the Western norms and values as universal. The notions of decolonial dialogues provide some warnings on coloniality and suggest a new and more expansive agenda for studies on critical internationalization.

Authors

• Ezgi Ozyonum, Concordia University - Montreal

• Adeela Arshad-Ayaz, Concordia University