Critical Internationalization of Higher Education From Internationalization Drift to Ethical Global Engagement

List of Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part 1: Foundations of Critical Internationalization: Addressing Systems of Drift

1. Cultural Readiness for Internationalization (CRI)

Melanie Agnew

2. Critical Approaches to Internationalization of Higher Education

Jos Beelen

3. University Governance and Internationalization: Navigating Disciplinary Cultures and Power Dynamics

Melanie Agnew

Part 2: Strategic Dimensions of Internationalization: Critical and Cultural Readiness Approaches

4. A Critical Approach to the Internationalization of Teaching and Learning

Jos Beelen

5. Exploring Incoming Mobility through a Critical and Inclusive Internationalization Lens

6. A Critical Approach to Research into Internationalization from a Global South Perspective

Lynette Jacobs, Nelia Oosthuysen, Cornelius Hagenmeier, and Tafadzwa Ruzive

7. International Development, Higher Education's Third Mission and the Internationalization of Service: Toward an International Community-Centered University Service Model

Julian Prieto and Annie Everett

8. Collaborative Partnerships: Epistemic Fluency, Transcultural Competence and the Sustainability of Identity

Anne Carr, Gabriela B. Bonilla, Matias Abad, Patricia Tineo, Pilar Constanzo, Antonina Bulyna, Jorge R. Lemos Shlotter, Athena Alchazidu, Katerine Chudova, William A. Booth, Olena Yasynetska, Oleh Shlapakov, Bahar Aksu, and Oguzhan Yilmaz          

9. Assessing Risks and Monitoring International Student Recruitment Partners: Towards Ethical Engagement with Education Agents

Pii-Tuulia Nikula

10. Beyond Metrics: A Critical Framework for Evaluating Higher Education Internationalization

Melanie Agnew, Christopher Fuglestad, and Megan Lochhead

11. Leadership: A Call to Action

Melanie Agnew and Moreen Carvan

12. Conclusion: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Melanie Agnew and Jos Beelen

Biography

Melanie Agnew is an organizational development consultant with over 25 years of higher education leadership experience at both departmental and dean levels. She specializes in internationalization, guiding cultural transformation, facilitating leader development, integrating discipline-specific change frameworks, and in partnering with multiple stakeholder groups internal and external to the organization.

Jos Beelen is Professor of Global Learning at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands. He is a Visiting Professor at Coventry University, UK, at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway, and at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

“Critical Internationalization of Higher Education makes a valuable contribution by examining how contextual factors such as the macroeconomy, organisational priorities, and knowledge creation practices shape the nature and potential of higher education internationalisation.”

Kalyani Unkule, O.P. Jindal Global University, India.

“At a time of challenge for international higher education, this timely edited volume advances ethical global engagement through critical internationalization and organizational theories. The authors emphasize the need for leaders and practitioners to recommit to educational aims, tempering market forces while critiquing traditional approaches.”

Kumari Beck, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

 

“The contributing authors bring nuanced and power-informed analyses to the internationalization of research, teaching, service, governance, evaluation, and leadership. In doing so, they draw readers’ attention to the enduring inequities that characterize this work and identify both barriers and pathways to meaningful transformation. They also offer generative frameworks and examples of ‘next practices’ for those engaged in this work.”

Sharon Stein, University of British Columbia, Canada.