ERIC Number: EJ1408433
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-2151-0393
EISSN: EISSN-2151-0407
"Um Pouco Mais de Calma": Identifying the "Trampas" of Decolonizing Internationalization of Higher Education and Academy in the Global South
Jhuliane Evelyn da Silva; Juliana Zeggio Martinez; Roxana Chiappa
Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, v15 n5 p128-142 2023
In this article, we analyze contradictions, complexities, limits, and potentialities of internationalization of higher education (IHE) from Latin American decolonial perspectives. We argue that even when scholars may be holding decolonial critiques and aspirations towards IHE, the structures of universities are heavily influenced by colonial legacies, undermining the potentialities of decolonization. We pay special attention to those initiatives that apparently promise a decolonial exit, because they may be acting as traps, or what we called trampas (in Spanish). In this article, we particularly analyze the initiatives that are frequently seen as projects that deviated from the hegemonic discourses of internationalization: i) South-South international higher education cooperation projects, ii) policies and projects that seek to address colonial legacies, and iii) teaching and researching committed with decolonial intentions. In the end, we invite readers, practitioners and scholars alike, to welcome the contradictions we face in such work and not to lose sight of the ongoing, relational, and hyperreflective character of any project that aims to be an alternative to coloniality.
Descriptors: International Education, Decolonization, Higher Education, Educational Cooperation, International Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Colonialism, Developing Nations, Global Approach, Student Mobility, Faculty Mobility, College Students, College Faculty, Study Abroad
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Latin America
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