TITLE:
Internationalization of Higher Education: A Perspective from the Great South
AUTHORS:
Marilia Costa Morosini, Marilene Gabriel Dalla Corte, Alexandre Guilherme
KEYWORDS:
South-South Relations, North-South Relations, Mobility, Brazil, Higher Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.8 No.1,
January
17,
2017
ABSTRACT:
It is our contention in this article that the Great South tends to understand the process of internationalisation of Higher Education in terms of “mobility” whilst the Great North, which gave birth to the notion and therefore has greater experience of the process, understands internationalisation in terms of Global Citizenship Education. Mobility is a well-established feature of Higher Education in the Global North (e.g. the Erasmus and Erasmus+ programmes in the EU) but the North understands it as a component of internationalisation and not its summation as in the South. Within this context, we analyse the academic discourse on internationalisation from Brazil, particularly dissertations and theses from Master and PhD students, which have been logged in a national databank encompassing all subjects. As such, the findings in this databank reflect the research tendencies of young academics, postgraduate courses and departments as well as the perspective of established Brazilian academics who supervised these young scholars.