In a provocative blend of Bourdieus sociology and the practice turn in contemporary theory, Hanne Tange reframes the debate over international education. Explicitly taking practices as a category of analysis in the field of international education, Tange writes with insight of the hidden curriculum whereby international teaching involves the transfer of practical knowledge from academic staff to students. Her emphasis on tacit as well as formalised types of knowledge is a welcome corrective to the often sterile debate concerning intercultural competence which too often occludes critical analysis of the concrete course activities and the socialisation processes involved in the field of international education. Read this book and profit!
Professor Anthony Elliott, Dean of External Engagement and Executive Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of South Australia
At last, a book that treats university lecturers as key thinkers and shapers of the internationalisation of higher education! Nested in a scholarly analysis of the linguistic, disciplinary, institutional and policy features of a global learning environment, this book uses rich empirical data from three major studies to give voice to the teachers engaged in curriculum and module design, classroom activities, multicultural teamwork, and assessment the practices that have transformed international education in the last decades. An added advantage is that the studys semi-peripheral location in Europe offers a refreshingly critical perspective on the traditional US/UK nexus of globalisation.
Susan Wright, Professor of Educational Anthropology, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark
This book provides a substantial tool for understanding internationalisation in higher education in a larger context: its development, incentives, political and institutional backgrounds, essentially by insisting on the role of academic staff as central agents. The authors historical, social, and didactic overview together with a clear methodological approach provides a transdisciplinary analysis of concepts too often left undefined, despite their high strategic value.
Professor Hanne Leth Andersen, Vice-Chancellor of Roskilde University, Denmark
Teaching Practices in a Global Learning Environment
This book examines teaching practices in international education, focusing on two significant meanings of the notion of practice: the concrete activities used by university lecturers and the role of education as a platform for transferring particular skills or approaches.
In addition to discussing techniques involved in programme design, curricular development, course activities, multicultural teamwork, and examination, the author explores the idea of the lecturer as an actor communicating practices, considering the role and responsibility of academic staff in the development of successful international education.
With attention to the importance of the context of internationalisation, the book draws on research from two major research projects, presenting extensive interview material with teaching staff engaged in international education and projects of internationalisation. Combining the approaches of pragmatism and practice theory, as developed by Bourdieu and Schatzki, among others, Teaching Practices in a Global Learning Environment addresses themes including the international-ness of academic disciplines, the biographies of international educators, and language issues emerging in international education. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and policy makers with interests in pedagogy, internationalisation, and higher education.
Hanne Tange is Associate Professor of English and Global Studies in the Department of Culture and Learning at Aalborg University, Denmark.
Global Connections
Series Editor: Robert Holton
Global Connections builds on the multi-dimensional and continuously expanding interest in globalisation, focusing on connectedness and providing accessible, concrete studies across a broad range of areas such as social and cultural life, and economic, political and technological activities. Interdisciplinary in approach, the series moves beyond abstract generalities and stereotypes: Global is considered in the broadest sense of the word, embracing connections between different nations, regions and localities, including activities that are trans-national, and trans-local in scope; connections refers to movements of people, ideas, resources, and all forms of communication as well as the opportunities and constraints faced in making, engaging with, and sometimes resisting globalisation.
Titles in the series:
The Socio-Political Practice of Human Rights
Between the Universal and the Particular
Kiran Kaur Grewal
The Global Repositioning of Japanese Religions
An integrated approach
Ugo Dessi
Civilized Rebels
An Inside Story of the Wests Retreat from Global Power
Dennis Smith
Teaching Practices in a Global Learning Environment
An Interdisciplinary Take on International Education
Hanne Tange
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Teaching Practices in a Global Learning Environment
An Interdisciplinary Take on International Education
Hanne Tange
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Names: Tange, Hanne, 1971 author. | Routledge (Firm)
Title: Teaching practices in a global learning environment : an interdisciplinary take on international education / Hanne Tange.
Other titles: Global connections.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2020. | Series: Global connections | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020021333 (print) | LCCN 2020021334 (ebook) | ISBN 9781138225961 (Hardback) | ISBN 9781315398662 (eBook)
