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Internationalization Remodeled

Definition, Approaches, and Rationales

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ID23328115
AuthorsJane Knight (0000-0002-4187-5407, Comparative, International, and Development Education Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume8
Issue1
Pages5-31
Publication date2004-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Studies in International Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1028-3153 • E-ISSN: 1552-7808
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1028315303260832
OpenAlexW2106829690
LanguageEN
Citations received523
References cited3

The world of higher education is changing and the world in which higher education plays a significant role is changing. The international dimension of higher education is becoming increasingly important, complex, and confusing. It is therefore timely to reexamine and update the conceptual frameworks underpinning the notion of inter-nationalization in light of today’s changes and challenges. The purpose of this article is to study internationalization at both the institutional and national/sector level. Both levels are important. The national/sector level has an important influence on the international dimension through policy, funding, programs, and regulatory frameworks. Yet it is usually at the institutional level that the real process of internationalization is taking place. This article analyses the meaning, definition, rationales, and approaches of internationalization using a bottom-up (institutional) approach and a top-down (national/sector) approach and examines the dynamic relationship between these two levels. Key policy issues and questions for the future direction of internationalization are identified.

Business · Conceptual framework · Dimension (graph theory) · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · Higher education · International education · International trade · Internationalization · Meaning (existential) · Political science · Process (computing) · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Underpinning · Computer Science · Engineering · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Higher Education Governance and Development · Second Language Learning and Teaching

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