OPEN LECTURE: Internationalization of Higher Education: Changing Meanings and Rationales
Time
13.2.2023 at 14.15 - 15.45
OPEN LECTURE by Visiting Professor Fazal Rizvi - Internationalization of Higher Education: Changing Meanings and Rationales
Abstract: The idea of internationalization has seemingly become a permanent feature in the policy discourses of systems of higher education around the world. The idea of internationalization however is not new and is now interpreted in a wide variety of ways. In this talk, prof. Rizvi will provide a historical overview of the shifting meanings of internationalization and examine the multiple rationales for its importance that can now be found in policy statements. I will show how the market rationale has now become dominant, undermining many of its other equally important objectives, including intercultural understanding, global citizenship, and public diplomacy.
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Professor Fazal Rizvi is Professor of Global Studies in Education at the University of Melbourne (2010–), Emeritus Professor of Global Studies in Education at the University of Illinois, USA (2001–) and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education CELE.
Rizvi’s main research areas are globalization and internationalization of education, identity and culture in transnational contexts, higher education reforms is India, globalization and education policy, and education policies of transnational mobility and diaspora.
Abstract: The idea of internationalization has seemingly become a permanent feature in the policy discourses of systems of higher education around the world. The idea of internationalization however is not new and is now interpreted in a wide variety of ways. In this talk, prof. Rizvi will provide a historical overview of the shifting meanings of internationalization and examine the multiple rationales for its importance that can now be found in policy statements. I will show how the market rationale has now become dominant, undermining many of its other equally important objectives, including intercultural understanding, global citizenship, and public diplomacy.
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Professor Fazal Rizvi is Professor of Global Studies in Education at the University of Melbourne (2010–), Emeritus Professor of Global Studies in Education at the University of Illinois, USA (2001–) and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education CELE.
Rizvi’s main research areas are globalization and internationalization of education, identity and culture in transnational contexts, higher education reforms is India, globalization and education policy, and education policies of transnational mobility and diaspora.
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