Title:
Purposive design or ecology? A critique of teleological perspectives on internationalisation in higher education
Author:
Tatiana Fumasoli
UCL Institute of Education, University College London, London, UK
Published:
European Journal of Education, 16 April 2021
From the article:
Internationalisation of higher education can be understood as the expansion and integration of the higher education field across borders, implying a growing interconnectedness of the involved actors on a global scale. It is then crucial to understand the nature of such actors, including their position and their capacity for engaging with the field. As they move within the field between centre and periphery, new actors emerge and old actors disappear. Basic questions on internationalisation point to the number and quality of such relationships, that is, their density, sustainability, actor resources and institutional contexts.