Interrogating the Truth Narratives in Internationalization: Ethical Dilemmas in Administrative Decision Making Involving Private Pathway Colleges

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Eleven
  In Roundtable Session: Ethical Dilemmas in International Contexts (Table 9)

Abstract

This paper examines the practice of ethical internationalization in higher education institutions. By interrogating the truth narratives that university administrators engage in, the paper demonstrates how discourses of ethical internationalization can materialize or be overlooked in public universities. Data were collected through document analysis and interviews with nine administrators and 13 international students. The analysis draws from the critical literature of relationality (Yang, 2020) where discourses around rights and responsibilities, hospitality and reciprocity, justice and equality, and desire and recognition reveal the ethical dilemmas administrators often grapple with. The paper demonstrates how individual administrators can have agency in interrupting current market-driven practices of internationalization, if willing to critically engage in equity discourses of internationalization.

Author

• Merli Tamtik, University of Manitoba
  Presenting Author