Voices of Internationalisation of Higher Education from Sub-Saharan Africa, China and Indonesia

From the perspective of peripheralised countries, internationalisation is imbalanced and hegemonic, as it is predominantly constructed by universities in the Global North. We explore the imbalanced internationalisation from the cases of sub-Saharan Africa through the dominance of Western knowledge s...

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Published inLearning and teaching Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 2 - 31
Main Authors Alemu, Sintayehu Kassaye, Qu, Mei, Sakhiyya, Zulfa
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Berghahn Journals 01.12.2022
Berghahn Books, Inc
Subjects
Banks (Finance)
Brain Drain
Commercialization
Education, Higher
Educational Change
Educational Finance
Educational Policy
Educational Strategies
Foreign Countries
Global Approach
Globalization
Higher Education
International education
Political Influences
Privatization
School construction
China
Africa
Indonesia
East Asia
United Kingdom
Sub-Saharan Africa
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Summary:From the perspective of peripheralised countries, internationalisation is imbalanced and hegemonic, as it is predominantly constructed by universities in the Global North. We explore the imbalanced internationalisation from the cases of sub-Saharan Africa through the dominance of Western knowledge systems and brain drain; China through isolation and playing 'catch up'; and Indonesia through the financial crisis, the bailout conditions of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and marketisation. By taking the cases of sub-Sahara Africa, China and Indonesia, this article problematises the idea of internationalisation and argues that it further relegates universities from the peripheralised countries to the margin.
ISSN:1755-2273
1755-2281
DOI:10.3167/latiss.2022.150303