From Faculty Agency to Organizational Learning Through International Collaboration

• In Event: Hilton Roundtable Session 18
  In Roundtable Session: International Study Abroad

Abstract

This study examines in what ways an international professional development partnership supports institutional change in sustainable and non-ethnocentric ways by fostering contextualized agency through critical reflection among faculty for improvements to teaching and research. Results from the two-year collaboration reveal that international partners can facilitate, rather than dominate, organizational learning through internationalization despite isomorphic pressures.

Authors

• Jennifer Lebron, George Mason University

• Scott C. Bauer, University of Colorado Denver

• Rebecca K. Fox, George Mason University

• Karen R. Wrightsman, George Mason University

• Anastasia P. Samaras, George Mason University

• Mary Beth Marklein, George Mason University