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Sulley Ibrahim; Line Kuppens; Justin Sheria Nfundiko – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
In this article, we scrutinise the importance of researchers' positionality vis-à-vis the 'Global South'/'North' binary in the field of international and comparative education. Accounting for the different places we speak from, we reflect on our past experiences as doctoral researchers examining teachers' role as agents of peace and/or conflict in…
Descriptors: Researchers, Decolonization, Power Structure, Developing Nations
Ravi Lakshmikanthan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explores the evolving landscape of international higher education partnerships, with a specific focus on the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). These countries, representing a significant portion of the world's population and economy, are redefining collaborative models in higher education, particularly…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Developing Nations, Developed Nations, Partnerships in Education
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Munyaradzi Hwami – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2025
This critical interpretive study aims to contribute to the scholarship that calls for epistemological recognition and representation of the global South. This call is seen as displacing questions of redistribution. The article utilizes interviews and focus group sessions with Kazakhstani graduate students to explore their experiences and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Systems, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
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R'boul, Hamza – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2022
The enduring colonial-like relations among Northern and Southern spaces continue to influence knowledge production and dissemination. Critical scholarship on epistemic diversity in higher education has argued that knowledge circulation is often unilateral considering how global partnerships among universities and higher education models are still…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Colonialism, Cultural Pluralism
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Kuzhabekova, Aliya – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2020
Despite the growing complexity and multidimensionality of the system of international research collaborations, the colonial discourse casting the collaborative relationships in terms of polarized North--South antitheses persists and continues to exert influence on the nature of power distribution in the relationships, as well as on the…
Descriptors: Social Change, College Faculty, International Cooperation, Power Structure
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Daniel Bryan; Chelsea Viteri; Caitlin Murphy Hatz; Kati R. Csoman; Edwin Manuel Pilaquinga; Emily McGrath – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2022
This article uses a case study approach to reimagine risk management in education abroad programming. It brings together a group of program partners to explore pre-COVID risk management decision-making during political unrest in Ecuador in 2019. Through continued dialogue and self-directed creative reflection techniques, the partners (a Dean of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Risk Management, Study Abroad, Partnerships in Education
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Yang, Rui; Xie, Meng – Frontiers of Education in China, 2015
Scholarly relations between developed and developing countries have long been characterized by imbalances and asymmetries. The "centers" in the North give direction, provide models, produce research and function as the pinnacles of the academic system while institutions in developing countries copy their development from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, International Cooperation, Institutional Cooperation
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Bridges, David – Ethics and Education, 2014
The focus of this paper is on a variety of practices associated with the transfer of educational policy and practice from one national education system to another--practices sometimes referred to as "policy borrowing". Its concern is with the ethical and political issues raised by these practices. In particular, it discusses concerns…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Developed Nations
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Usman, Sidra – International Journal of Higher Education, 2014
There are major structural issues in the higher education system in Pakistan leading to poor governance of institutions and questionable quality of education. This paper looks at the differences in the role of boards of governors in maintaining quality of education in both the public and the private sector universities in Pakistan. After having…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Higher Education, Governing Boards
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Ling, Peter; Mazzolini, Margaret; Giridharan, Beena – Australian Universities' Review, 2014
Increasingly, universities in developed countries are engaging in transnational education. Responsibilities and opportunities to exercise management and leadership in the provision of transnational education depend on the organisational model adopted and whether the academics involved are on home or international campuses. Models range from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, International Education, College Administration
Orelus, Pierre W., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
"A Decolonizing Encounter" examines the effects of western colonialism on historically marginalized and colonized populations living both in the West and the "third world". Specifically, it explores crucial issues such as the decolonizing of schools and communities of color; the decentralization of power of the capitalist and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Democracy, Global Approach, Foreign Policy
Mason, Terrence C., Ed.; Helfenbein, Robert J., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012
The widely cited, though highly contested, idea that "the world is flat" (Friedman, 2004) carries with it a call for education to provide a leveling effect across continents and cultures Students in Skokie or in Skopje, as the theory goes, are expected to experience a school curriculum that shares certain common elements, goals, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Ethics, Global Education
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Langthaler, Margarita; Witjes, Nina; Slezak, Gabriele – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the discussion about the developmental value of knowledge by reflecting on the "knowledge for development" (K4D) paradigm. In particular, it draws attention to the interaction between linguistic and communicative processes and the areas of power, knowledge and education. This is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis