ERIC Number: EJ1204336
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
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Reflecting Critically on the Critical Disposition within Internationalisation of the Curriculum (IoC): the Developmental Journey of a Curriculum Design Team
Patil Vishwanath, Tejaswini; Mummery, Jane
Higher Education Research and Development, v38 n2 p354-368 2019
Internationalisation of curriculum (IoC) practices promote students developing knowledge of other cultures, attitudes, values and ethics. This conceptual article argues that embedding critical reflection in the IoC program -- through integrating insights from both IoC thinkers and critical reflection literature -- may allow educators and students to not only gain understanding and/or competency in other cultures but better address questions of privilege, power and colonisation and thereby interrogate their own normative cultural understandings. Borrowing from debates within IoC pedagogy, as well as from Ahmed's work on critical reflection, this article also argues that cross/intercultural understanding should be understood (and taught) not as a competency but a disposition towards thinking, analysing and understanding the world which is based on critiquing the 'self' and its relationship with the 'other'.
Descriptors: International Education, Cultural Awareness, Values, Ethics, Cross Cultural Training, Advantaged, Power Structure, Foreign Policy, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills, Self Concept, Critical Theory, Higher Education, Social Change, Program Descriptions, Masters Programs, Foreign Countries, Epistemology, Educational Philosophy, Curriculum Design
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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