Reflection Of Internationalisation

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A critical reflection of different aspects of internationalisation & education.

In the following essay I will focused on how globalisation, multiculturalism and internationalisation have an effect at different education levels. The first part includes a brief explanation of the concept of globalisation, and how it affects the educational structure in secondary education through global competence. How this can make the educational environment more complex, and what it implies to be successfully achieved. Then, I will mention strategies adopted as a response for multiculturalism at schools, and how at a school level the community has to do a lot of effort to achieve a diverse educational setting without discriminating, i.e. a multiculturalised …show more content…

Then, multiculturalism may affect education at a school level, when students will encounter immersed in a diverse community in which their learning process happens. This diversity includes race, language, class, gender, identity. Then, this reaction from schools to avoid social inequality and discrimination can be seen as a response only from minority groups, which is not true. But, the main aim is to make all students without caring their backgrounds aware of the diverse world we are living in. Then, real strategies exist in order to implement multiculturalism. Bank 's (2003) offers different levels of integration in content. First two are: contributions and additive. At this level there is not change in curriculum, the mainstream viewpoint about immigrants exists and stereotypes are still present. Then, two other levels are proposed: transformation and social action. These levels include ethnic perspectives, and changes in the goals of institutions; teachers must give the right and opportunity to think to students, to critique, and they will transform their decisions and actions of different issues in a diverse …show more content…

In this outcome I will refer to internationalisation in the higher education context. Internationalisation in higher education needs a change in the curriculum to be successful achieved. For this purpose, different strategies and recommendations AUCC. ACE (American Council on Education) recommends a variety of strategies, one of them is the creation of a framework for internationalising the curriculum:

Within this strategic framework, an institution must articulate international learning outcomes, identifying opportunities for achieving these outcomes through academic programming and developing a plan for their assessment.

(The Hanover Research Council

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