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Internationalisation at Home – good ideas and curriculum innovation IAH Symposium Brisbane, Australia 26 October 2012 Associate Professor Betty Leask Australian National Teaching Fellow University of South Australia AUSTRALIA

Internationalisation at Home •‘A good idea awaiting implementation’ •Jo Mestenhauser 2006

Outline Connecting innovation, internationalisation and student learning •IoC and IaH •Innovation and ‘good ideas’ •Opportunities and challenges •How can we foster curriculum innovation and facilitate student learning in an internationalised curriculum at home?

Internationalisation in a globalised world • Linked to development of intercultural competence for future life – As professionals - economic beings – As citizens - social and human beings • ‘students are social and cultural beings as well as economic ones’ (Rizvi & Lingard 2010, p. 201) • Important for all students

IoC … at home and abroad • the incorporation of an international and intercultural dimension into the preparation, delivery and outcomes of a program of study (process) • an internationalised curriculum (product) will purposefully develop the international and intercultural perspectives (skills, knowledge and attitudes) of all students (Leask 2009)

Characteristics of global citizens • Able to examine, reflect, argue, debate, deferring to neither tradition nor authority • Recognise fellow citizens as having equal rights regardless of difference in race, gender, religion, sexuality • Have concern for the lives of others • Imagine well; understand complex issues; informed by wide range of human stories • See one’s own nation and life as part of a complicated world order (from Nussbaum 2010)

IaH • ‘The concept of Internationalisation at Home is a useful way to focus our attention on what we do in our classrooms and on our campuses ‘at home’ to ensure the systematic development of these capabilities in all students’ • Beelen and Leask 2011

What is the curriculum? Broad conceptualisation of curriculum, encompassing the total student experience

The curriculum Includes •the envisioned curriculum (global aim or statement of purpose) •the developed curriculum (objectives, catalogue of subject matter) •the assessed curriculum •the enacted or taught curriculum •the learned curriculum (Green and Mertova 2009)

Good ideas • ‘All good ideas require hard work, patience and the ability to seize opportunities and overcome challenges to transform them into reality’. • Ralph Emerson (1803-1882)

‘Where do good ideas come from?’ Steve Johnson

‘Good’ ideas, opportunities and IaH • doing something different (Lat. innovare: "to change") • seeking different learning outcomes • students and teachers doing different things • in class and out of class; on campus and in the community • might? or could?

Opportunities • Cross-disciplinary connections • Program focus • Engagement with diversity in class and on campus • Internationalisation of campus culture • Connecting with diversity in the local community

Challenges • Lack of skills and knowledge • Our own cultural conditioning/dominant paradigms • Pedagogy - What works? What doesn’t? • Assessment of learning outcomes • What’s rewarded for staff • Time and effort required • Resistance to change

Changing our pedagogy

Innovation and IoC Focussed on developing all students’ international and intercultural competencies

Conclusion Characteristics of innovative IaH •Challenges the ‘taken-for-granted’ in all areas of the curriculum •Arouses curiosity and mobilises the imagination •Sharing of hunches and ideas; learning together •Students, staff, communities doing some new things, doing some things differently •Touches content, pedagogy, assessment •Engagement across intellectual traditions and with cultural others in and across communities •International as well as local collaboration and conversation

The final word • Good ideas ‘must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams’ • Ralph Emerson (1803-1882)

More information • betty.leask@unisa.edu.au • Twitter #@IoCinAction • IoC SIG • Internationalisation of the Curriculum in Action website www.ioc.net.au

References • Beelen, J. and Leask, B. (2011) ‘Internationalisation at Home on the Move’ in Raabe Handbook ‘Internationalisation of European Higher Education ’. Berlin: Raabe Academic Publishers. • Green, W., & Mertova, P. (2009). Internationalisation of Teaching and Learning at the University of Queensland: a report on current perceptions and practices Retrieved from http://www.tedi.uq.edu.au/downloads/IoTL_UQ.pdf • Johnson, S. 2009 Where do good ideas come from www.ted.com.talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_come_from.html • Leask, B. 2009 Using formal and informal curricula to improve interactions between home and international students. Journal of Studies in International Education , Vol. 13, No. 2, 205-221 • Mestenhauser, J. 2006 Internationalization at home; Systems challenge to a fragmented field. In H. Teekens (Ed.), Internationalization at home: A global perspective (pp. 67-77). The Hague: Nuffic. 2010 • Nussbaum, M. 2010. Not for profit: Why democracy needs the humanities Princeton University Press: Princeton and Oxford