Seminar+outline

This two hour interactive seminar for NAFSA delegates is a facilitated discussion around some central themes of the internationalisation of higher education that relate to staff and students. Gavin will set the context for discussion and invite small groups at tables to join in the conversation. The schedule of the seminar is:

Part 1: Context setting (Gavin) including small group discussion Part 2: Bringing the topics together, questions and wrapping up

Setting the scene (a) Which countries / universities are people from? Introducing yourself to someone you don't know and sitting next to them for session.

Setting the scene (b) Why the interest in faculty? Because (1) current internationalisation theory 'bottoms out' at the organisational level (see Figure 1) and people are searching for answers to inform practice, and (2) faculty have a key role in developing students' knowledge, skills and attitudes to prepare them for life and work in a rapidly globalising world which is likely to influence and impact on them even if they just 'work local'. The question, then, is what knowledge, skills and attitudes might be usefully demonstrated by faculty from the point of view of leading students to become 'the new international//ists//'?



WIKI TOPICS

Topic 1 Globalisation and internationalisation - synonymous, separate, synthesised or symbiotic?

Topic 2 What has culture got to do with teaching? Something? Everything? Nothing?

Topic 3 Meanings of curriculum - broad, narrow, context, content, process, formal, informal, co-curricular ... and then internationalising it!

Topic 4 Cosmopolitanism / Authenticity in teaching / Transformative learning theory


 * Reference:** Sanderson, G. (2006). //[|Examination of a profile of the ideal lecturer for teaching international students]//. Adelaide: Flinders University.