A Critical Perspective on Short-Term International Mobility of Faculty: An Experience from Kazakhstan
| Title: | A Critical Perspective on Short-Term International Mobility of Faculty: An Experience from Kazakhstan |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Kuzhabekova, Aliya (ORCID |
| Source: | Journal of Studies in International Education. Sep 2022 26(4):454-471. |
| Availability: | SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://sagepub.com |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 18 |
| Publication Date: | 2022 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: | International Education, Foreign Countries, Faculty Mobility, College Faculty, Faculty Development, Social Structure, Travel, Social Differences, Non Western Civilization, Western Civilization, Universities, Neoliberalism, Humanism, Partnerships in Education, Equal Education, Teacher Attitudes, Study Abroad |
| Geographic Terms: | Kazakhstan |
| DOI: | 10.1177/10283153211016270 |
| ISSN: | 1028-3153 1552-7808 |
| Abstract: | This article looks at the relatively understudied phenomenon of short-term international mobility of faculty from the critical internationalization perspective. It uses data from interviews with academics from Kazakhstan, who participated in short-term professional development trips abroad to understand who benefits and who loses as a result of short-term faculty mobility and how the short-term international mobility may contribute to the process of reproduction of the existing social structures and inequality. Critical internationalization perspective in general, as well as mobility paradigm more specifically, helps to reveal some important insights about short-term international mobility from a non-Western country to predominantly Western institutions. The main conclusion from the study is that host university's engagement in hosting mobile faculty coming on short visits seems to be driven predominantly by the neoliberal profit-seeking motives rather than by a more humanistic desire to serve the larger global society by sharing its expertise or to engage in equal and mutually beneficial partnership relationships. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2022 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1348796 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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