Internationalising the Curriculum, Internationalising Pedagogy

Internationalising higher education (HE) shows tensions between
recruiting international students as a means of securing income and
meeting their particular educational needs towards practices of caring
for their social, psychological, intercultural and educational well-being.
This paper briefly outlines the extent of current HE internationalisation
and collaboration networks worldwide. It presents an argument,
evidenced with research data, for the need to include cultures of
learning in policies and practises to sustain internationalisation in HE.
Staff (academic, administrative and technical) and students (home and
international) need to appreciate and practise a variety of cultural
approaches and intercultural communication strategies to advance
teaching and learning. Staff need to have this intercultural awareness for
their professional development and to consider further how the
curriculum and learning environments could provide more opportunities
for (inter)national students to be productively engaged in academic
learning in intercultural contexts and embrace more internationalised
content and learning processes. Suggestions for such developments are
proposed.