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The Internationalization of Higher Education: International Graduate Students' Perspectives on How to Enhance University Stakeholders' Glocal Competence

Diki, Mary Kristin
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1596721422243909

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2020, Doctor of Education (EdD), Ohio University, Educational Administration (Education).
Institutions of higher learning in the United States have been admitting students from different countries since the 18th century. These universities have arguably had difficulty with the challenge of integrating such students into the life blood of the institutions due to their institutional overriding purpose of developing and sharing knowledge, oftentimes of a highly specialized nature. Given the constraints of time, resources and purpose, universities have struggled to capture the richness of their cultural diversity due to the highly peripheral nature of most cross-cultural engagements. The reality has been that what cross-cultural learning has occurred is largely unidirectional and such students have largely been made to feel that it is their responsibility to conform to local administrator, faculty, staff, and student expectations. Efforts have largely been aimed at recruitment and settlement assistance for such international students. Much of the existing scholarship on internationalization in the context of higher education places the emphasis on one dominant culture, thereby implicitly marginalizing the international student voices. Although careful planning and implementation of internationalization could contribute greatly to curriculum that embodies multi-cultural perspectives, the lack of the international student perspective in the planning and implementation of internationalization is problematic. It ignores the value that they could contribute as stakeholders in such institutions of higher education. This study explored the notion of glocalization, an enriching term suggesting the blending of mutual local perspectives in a global context when it comes to exploring the experiences and perspectives of international graduate students on internationalization planning and implementation in an effort to foster university stakeholders’ glocal competence, a cosmos of global proportions. Twenty-nine students from five global regions patiently sat for interviews revealing their experiences in the planning and implementation of internationalization at their university. They also provided their perspectives of how institutions could foster glocal attitudes, knowledge, skills, and understanding in all stakeholders at a university using Jean-Francois’s (2015) framework of glocal competence. It is hoped that the perspectives uncovered through such interviews can add to the existing conversation of how to effectively plan and implement internationalization in higher education.
Emmanuel Jean-Francois (Advisor)
289 p.
Comparative; Education; Higher Education
Internationalization; International Education; International Students; Globalization; Glocalization; Global Competence; Glocal Competence

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  • Diki, M. K. (2020). The Internationalization of Higher Education: International Graduate Students' Perspectives on How to Enhance University Stakeholders' Glocal Competence [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1596721422243909

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Diki, Mary. The Internationalization of Higher Education: International Graduate Students' Perspectives on How to Enhance University Stakeholders' Glocal Competence. 2020. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1596721422243909.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Diki, Mary. "The Internationalization of Higher Education: International Graduate Students' Perspectives on How to Enhance University Stakeholders' Glocal Competence." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1596721422243909

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