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Johanna Thomas-Maude; Sharon McLennan; Vicky Walters – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
In recent years, English-language voluntourism (EVT) has grown in popularity, with many conceptualizing it as a form of cultural exchange between English speaking volunteers and members of a non-English speaking host community. This article explores relationships between and within volunteers and host groups of an EVT program in Lima, Peru. Using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Volunteers, Tourism, Language Teachers
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Nainika Dinesh – History of Education, 2024
Through an analysis of Allahabad University's functioning, this article argues that independent India's ideas of federalism reimagined university education. New visions of the educated person - linked to ideas about the ideal citizen - changed the kinds of disciplines and universities being funded. With support from industrial elites to buttress…
Descriptors: Universities, Postcolonialism, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Wang, Qian; Gooden, Amy; Gu, Haibo; Ma, Hanlihui; Pan, Yuchen – Curriculum Journal, 2022
Using the Internationalization of the Curriculum (IoC) model, this study analyses postgraduate educational programmes that contribute to internationalization in higher education at British and Sino-British transnational universities. The purpose is to explore postcolonial curricular design influences and opportunities. The study identified…
Descriptors: International Education, Curriculum Development, Graduate Students, Foreign Policy
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Antia, Bassey E.; van der Merwe, Chanel – Language Policy, 2019
As part of a broader student campaign for 'free decolonized education', protests over language policies at select South African universities between 2015 and 2016 belied widespread positive appraisals of these policies, and revealed what is possibly an internal contradiction of the campaign. The discourse prior to the protests (e.g.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Universities, School Policy
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Joffe, Avril – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2019
This paper discusses the pedagogical responses of the Wits University Cultural Policy and Management Department to the needs of our students in the postcolonial context of South Africa. It reviews the challenges experienced by our postgraduate students and the resultant innovations in both curriculum design and learning and teaching practice.…
Descriptors: Management Development, Activism, Public Policy, Strategic Planning