This book provides a cutting-edge analysis of the ways in which higher education institutions have become more international over the past two decades. Drawing upon a range of post-foundational spatial, network and mobilities theories, the book shifts our thinking away from linear, binary, Western accounts of internationalization to understand the complex, multi-centered and contradictory ways in which internationalization processes have played out across a wide variety of higher education landscapes worldwide. The author explores transnational student, scholar, knowledge, program and provider mobilities; the production of mobile bodies, knowledges, and identities; the significance of place in internationalization; and the crucial role that global university rankings play in reshaping the spatial landscape of higher education.

Autorentext

Marianne A. Larsen is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Western University, Canada. Her recent research focuses on the overall processes and effects of the internationalization of higher education. Her work in this area focuses on the impact of international service learning (ISL) on host communities and envisioning more mutually beneficial ways to engage host communities in planning and facilitating ISL programs in Global South settings.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 - Constructing a Theoretical Framework: Space, Networks, and Mobilities.- Chapter 3 - Transnational Students: Long Term/Degree Program Mobilities.- Chapter 4 - Transnational Students: International Service Learning and Short Term Study Abroad Mobilities.- Chapter 5 - Transnational Academics: Mobilities, Immobilities and Place.- Chapter 6 - Transnational Pedagogies: Curricular Mobilities.- Chapter 7 - Transnational Programs and Providers: Mobilities and Complex Spatial Flows.- Chapter 8 Global Rankings: Reshaping the Spatial Landscape of Higher Education.- Chapter 9 Conclusion.