Internationalization: a transformative agenda for higher education?

Social cartographies as performative devices in research on higher education

“…Within this context, some have expressed concern about the capacity of existing research approaches to adequately address the complexities of current debates (Brennan & Teichler, 2008). This is particularly so in the case of research regarding the international dimension of higher education (e.g., Kehm & Teichler, 2007;Robson, 2011). Following Macfarlane's (2012) effort to map higher education scholarship and tentatively capture 'tensions within [higher education's] territorial waters ' (p. 131), in this article we explore the performative methodological uses of social cartography in the context of a large, international higher education research project.…”

Moving out of their comfort zones: enhancing teaching practice in transnational education

“…In the case of the United Arab Emirates, the location of the programme studied here, English is often not the first language of the lecturers, either (Wilkins, Stephens Balakrishnan, & Huisman, 2012). Furthermore, Robson (2011) argues that international staff will need to examine their 'habitual practices' of teaching and that a critical stance towards their pedagogy needs to be nurtured through self-reflection.…”

Internationalising Nordic higher education: comparing the imagined with actual worlds of international scholar-practitioners

“…The interpretation is that it is pivotal to understand how internationalisation and cross-border collaboration in higher education contribute to the quality of education delivery. This utilisation of knowledge may assist higher education institutions to review their roles in social change and design knowledge-based transformative agendas (Robson, 2011), as the SDGs cannot be viably achieved without the flow of progress in global collaboration in education (Sayed & Ahmed, 2015).…”