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Academics as Agents of Internationalization and Literacy: Malaysian Responses and Future Challenges

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Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific

Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics ((HEDY,volume 36))

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This chapter explicates the history and context of internationalization of higher education in Malaysia and presents the challenges and benefits of internationalization to the country, in relation to academic, economic, and socio-cultural areas. It examines the continuities and the gaps between on one hand the purposes and rhetoric of the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education’s (2007a, b) Strategic and Action Plans; and on the other hand, the perceptions and capacities of academics, as reported in the Changing Academic Profession (CAP) study and in the national research report on language proficiency of academic staff in public universities. Since academics are agents who occupy a central position in the knowledge production process in the new knowledge economies, this chapter investigates the orientations of academic staff in terms of their contexts, backgrounds, expertise, requirements, work roles and literacies in relation to the increasing relevance of internationalization and to their roles as reflexive agents of internationalization.

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  1. School of Language Studies and Linguistics, National University of Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

    Yew Lie Koo

  2. School of Education and Social Development, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Sabah, Malaysia

    Vincent Pang

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  1. Centre for the Study of, Higher Education (CSHE), University of Melbourne, Swanston Street 715, Melbourne, 3010, Victoria, Australia

    Simon Marginson

  2. , English Studies Section, School of Human, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, 11800, Malaysia

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  3. , International Education Research Centre, Central Queensland University, Level 8, Lonsdale Street, Melbourne 123, Melbourne, Victoria, 3800, Australia

    Erlenawati Sawir

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Koo, Y., Pang, V. (2011). Academics as Agents of Internationalization and Literacy: Malaysian Responses and Future Challenges. In: Marginson, S., Kaur, S., Sawir, E. (eds) Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific. Higher Education Dynamics, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1500-4_12

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