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Internationalization for an Uncertain Future: Tensions, Paradoxes, and Possibilities
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 41, Number 1, Fall 2017
- pp. 3-32
- 10.1353/rhe.2017.0031
- Article
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Abstract:
As higher education is increasingly called upon to play a central role in addressing the challenges and crises of today's complex, uncertain, and volatile world, internationalization efforts are intensifying. Emphasizing higher education as a space for critically-informed, socially accountable, and open-ended conversations about alternative futures, in this paper I reframe common approaches to complexity, uncertainty, and critique by offering a social cartography of three critical approaches to internationalization: soft, radical, and liminal. Mapping and historicizing diverse perspectives can complicate existing analyses, interrupt the prescriptive tendencies of critique, and illuminate new possible horizons of thought and action in higher education.