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Critical internationalization studies at an impasse

Making Space for Complexity, Uncertainty, and Complicity in a Time of Global Challenges

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ID4098841
AuthorsSerena Stein (0000-0001-6995-8274, Department of Educational Studies The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume46
Issue9
Pages1771-1784
Publication date2021-09-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03075079.2019.1704722
OpenAlexW2995473119
LanguageEN
Citations received78
References cited36

In this paper, I reflect on the current state of critical internationalization studies, an area of study that problematizes the overwhelmingly positive and depoliticized approaches to internationalization in higher education. I note that, despite growing interest in this approach, there is a risk that critiques will circularly result in more of the same if we do not attend to the full complexity, uncertainty, and complicity involved in transforming internationalization. In an effort to continue this work, and clarify the distinctions between different approaches to critical internationalization studies, I offer two social cartographies: one of different theories of change in relation to internationalization, and one of different layers of intervention. Finally, I ask what kind of internationalization might be adequate for responding to today’s many global challenges

Complicity · Economics · Epistemology · Higher education · International trade · Internationalization · Political science · Positive economics · Sociology · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Higher Education Governance and Development · Law · Philosophy

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