A False Promise of Internationalization in Higher Education: Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Students' Narratives

• In Event: Postcolonial Engagements With Education Around the World

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to understand how life stories told by Vietnamese international female graduate students might give insights into dilemmas they experience while navigating American education, conveying confusing messages of internationalization of American institutions, particularly during a pandemic. These students’ stories reveal the multifaceted subjectivity of their being colonized, minoritized, and made into objects that can be dispensable as analyzed from a postcolonial feminist perspective. The study then questions the promise of the internationalization of the curriculum in American higher education.

Authors

• Ngan Thi Thu Nguyen, Texas Tech University

• Jeong-Hee Kim, Texas Tech University