1st Edition
Critical Intercultural Perspectives on Higher Education Characterizing, Critiquing and Unsettling Internationalization
Chapter 1 Introduction: Internationalization of higher education beyond simplistic interculturality
Fred Dervin
Part I – Problematizing and strengthening the way we think about the internationalization of education interculturally
Chapter 2 Internationalisation of higher education: What does it mean in the Chinese context?
Xin Xu
Chapter 3 ‘Selective internationalization’ of higher education: Interculturalization as a power-conscious alternative
Hamza R’boul
Chapter 4 In praise of cosmopolitan education: Internationalization without (formal) education
Vincenzo Cicchelli and Sylvie Octobre
Part II – Examining internationalization interculturally with and beyond the West
Chapter 5 Islam, higher education and internationalization through Arabic Medium Education (AME)
Othman Z. Barnawi
Chapter 6 Internationalization of Korean higher education: A critical appraisal of current practice
Edward Choi and Terri Kim
Chapter 7 Global aspirations and local insights: Internationalisation and knowledge production in Singapore
Siao See Teng
Part III – Intercultural perspectives on internationalization within the West
Chapter 8 Internationalization and indigenization in U.S. higher education: Contemporary social-justice education
Phyllis Bo-yuen Ngai
Chapter 9 Global competence and languages in the internationalisation policies of Spanish higher education
Josep M. Cots
Chapter 10 Internationalisation and interculturality in Finnish education
Heidi Layne
Biography
Fred Dervin is a Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Professor Dervin specializes in intercultural communication education, the sociology of multiculturalism, and student and academic mobility. He is widely published in different languages (over 200 articles and 80 books). Recent books published with Routledge include Communicating around Interculturality in Research and Education (2023), The Paradoxes of Interculturality: A Toolbox of Out-of-the-box Ideas for Intercultural Communication Education (2022), Flexing Interculturality (with Hamza R’boul; 2023). Over a career of 25 years, Dervin has made substantial contributions to scholarship on interculturality in both communication and education.
