TY - JOUR
T1 - Utilising an internationalised curriculum to enhance students intercultural interaction, engagement and adaptation
AU - BODYCOTT, Peter
AU - MAK, Anita
AU - Ramburuth, Prem
N1 - Funding Information:
Altbach and Knight (2007) provide a comprehensive review of the reasons that motivate universities around the world to pursue an internationalisation policy agenda. These include the commercial and financial rewards on offer, to strengthen research and knowledge, to develop political soft power and advance intercultural understanding and skills of students. Traditional views on internationalisation and policy rarely reflected ‘‘for profit’’ motives. Instead, the focus was on enriching academic studies by providing international perspectives or study areas, and/or it was on status building through international alliances. Originally, internationalisation was reserved for the more prestigious and often most wealthy institutions. However today, internationalisation has become a fundamental policy component of most higher education institutions and countries alike. This is driven, in part, by decreased funding from governments and consequent pressure to recruit full fee paying international students to fill the financial void.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This article focuses on a comparative study of how diverse subject disciplines in different higher education institutions in Australia and Hong Kong approached the challenge of internationalising the curriculum (IoC). Case study analysis identifies five conditions conducive to improving intercultural student interaction, engagement and adaptation through an internationalised higher education curriculum. The findings suggest that opportunities for IoC, such as those outlined, afford multiple benefits for both domestic and international students in higher education. These include, better cross-cultural mixing, intercultural competency development and adaptation to different higher education contexts. Implications for higher education institutions interested in creating conditions that facilitate an internationalised curriculum are discussed.
AB - This article focuses on a comparative study of how diverse subject disciplines in different higher education institutions in Australia and Hong Kong approached the challenge of internationalising the curriculum (IoC). Case study analysis identifies five conditions conducive to improving intercultural student interaction, engagement and adaptation through an internationalised higher education curriculum. The findings suggest that opportunities for IoC, such as those outlined, afford multiple benefits for both domestic and international students in higher education. These include, better cross-cultural mixing, intercultural competency development and adaptation to different higher education contexts. Implications for higher education institutions interested in creating conditions that facilitate an internationalised curriculum are discussed.
KW - Internationalised Curriculum
KW - Intercultural Interaction
KW - Higher Education
KW - Intercultural interaction
KW - Higher education curriculum
KW - Internationalisation
KW - Student engagement
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84905700431
UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/utilising-internationalised-curriculum-enhance-students-intercultural-interaction-engagement-adaptat
U2 - 10.1007/s40299-013-0136-3
DO - 10.1007/s40299-013-0136-3
M3 - Article
SN - 0119-5646
VL - 23
SP - 635
EP - 643
JO - Asia-Pacific Education Researcher
JF - Asia-Pacific Education Researcher
IS - 3
ER -