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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

• vercome 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
• utcomes
• 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
• n 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
• thers 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