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Omolabake Fakunle – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2024
Micro-level internationalization offers possibilities to explore different human experiences in international higher education. This is especially crucial given well-reported issues of racism, micro-aggression, and underrepresentation of racially minoritized international academic staff, whose voices remain mostly invisible in internationalization…
Descriptors: Centralization, Decolonization, Educational Change, Power Structure
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Seats, Michael Robert – Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
Despite the ongoing 'globalization' of higher education, the curricula of most contemporary universities continue to be based upon epistemological assumptions deeply rooted in the Western philosophical tradition. Critiques of this lingering hegemony are evident in the growing calls for the decolonization of knowledge to make way for indigenous and…
Descriptors: Decolonization, Epistemology, Global Approach, Higher Education
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Dimmock, Clive – Comparative Education, 2020
The field of educational leadership has yet to develop a coherent knowledge base that reflects the global diversity of policies and practices. This disconnect -- for example between Asian and Western research, presents a major challenge, curtailing authentic knowledge production and transfer. Accordingly, a major objective for the field is the…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Instructional Leadership, Western Civilization, Asian Culture
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Watt, Carey A. – Journal of General Education, 2012
In this article, the author investigates the role that world history might play in reshaping the liberal arts to better serve a twenty-first-century world that is increasingly interconnected, plural, and "globalized." While "Western civ" courses and perspectives are much less influential today than they were in the first seven decades of the…
Descriptors: World History, Role, Educational Change, Liberal Arts
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Shahjahan, Riyad Ahmed – Journal of Education Policy, 2011
There is a growing body of literature discussing evidence-based education, practice, policy, and decision-making from a critical perspective. In this article, drawing on the literature and policy documents related to evidence-based education in the USA, Britain, and Canada, I join this critique and offer an anticolonial perspective. I argue that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Management Inst. for National Development, New York, NY. – 1974
Conference participants, reflecting the views of 15 different countries and representing both education and the broader community, gathered to discuss education about global development. The conference theme concerned educational reform in industrialized countries and the need for global awareness of the interdependence of all societies. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Conference Reports, Cultural Awareness, Decision Making
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Lie, John – Teaching Sociology, 1995
Maintains that, in spite of its cosmopolitan origins, U.S. sociology is regarded widely as parochial in its outlook and concerns. Discusses factors contributing to the intellectual isolationism of U.S. sociological research and pedagogy. Provides suggestions for internationalizing the sociology curriculum. (CFR)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Ethnocentrism, Global Approach
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Fung, C. Victor – Music Educators Journal, 1995
Asserts that since the middle of the 20th century the inclusion of world musics in music education programs has become increasingly important. Presents three rationales for teaching world music in the United States. Discusses two assumptions and implications for music educators regarding world music. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
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Matthews, Julie; Sidhu, Ravinder – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2005
This article takes the case of international education and Australian state schools to argue that the economic, political and cultural changes associated with globalisation do not automatically give rise to globally oriented and supra-territorial forms of subjectivity. The tendency of educational institutions such as schools to privilege narrowly…
Descriptors: Public Education, International Education, Foreign Countries, Cultural Capital