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Internationalization of the Curriculum: An Analysis of Three Traditions Using Illustrative Example of Global Water Issues
Lamers, Nicole A.
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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/17076
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- Title
- Internationalization of the Curriculum: An Analysis of Three Traditions Using Illustrative Example of Global Water Issues
- Author(s)
- Lamers, Nicole A.
- Issue Date
- 2010-08-31T20:31:29Z
- Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
- Darder, Antonia
- Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
- Darder, Antonia
- Committee Member(s)
- Johnston-Parsons, Marilyn A.
- Peters, Michael A.
- Rizvi, Fazal
- Department of Study
- Educational Policy Studies
- Discipline
- Educational Policy Studies
- Degree Granting Institution
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Degree Name
- Ph.D.
- Degree Level
- Dissertation
- Keyword(s)
- Global Studies
- Internationalization of Education
- Global Water Issues
- Global Pedagogy
- Abstract
- As a result of a push for increasing internationalization efforts, institutions of Higher Education in the U.S. have begun promoting a wide range of efforts toward campus internationalization. This study has looked at three traditions of these internationalization efforts to examine the potentials and pitfalls of the various approaches. These include an information-based, an experiential and a spatial approach. These modes of engagement are examined through the lens of a set of epistemic virtues, meant to complexify and deepen the meaningfulness of the experience, which include historicity, relationality, reflexivity, criticality and imagination. The first part of the study looks at an information-based approach, through an analysis of two lesson plans. The other two traditions are examined through case studies in practice. The first case study involves a study tour which focused both on issues of water, but also on issues of study abroad as well. The second case involved an on-campus elective undergraduate course that I taught called ‘Understanding Global Water Issues’. What this study shows is that effective internationalization must occur at multiple levels and that these levels can reinforce one another. However, an ‘add-on’ approach to internationalization without a comprehensive plan or structure and without elements of criticality will not be as effective, and has greater potential to be ‘mis-educative’, which in turn closes down future possibilities to engage and learn. Finally, the mode of internationalization efforts is, in the end, not the primary issue, so much as the purposes and the processes involved.
- Graduation Semester
- 2010-08
- Permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/2142/17076
- Copyright and License Information
- Copyright 2010 Nicole Alane Lamers
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