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Transnational Pedagogies: Curricular Mobilities

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This chapter focuses on the internationalization of curricula in higher education, addressing curricular flows of knowledge that are transnational, and the vehicles through which transnational knowledge circulates. An overview of some ways that higher education pedagogy has been internationalized is presented, including the spread of global citizenship curricula, the infusion of comparative and international content, and the proliferation of foreign language curricula. Arguments of critics who consider curriculum internationalization as neocolonial, Western processes are presented. The chapter shifts to examining transnational pedagogies through a spatial lens that views knowledge as a spatial practice mobilized by global flows and networks. Bhabha’s idea of the “third space” is evoked to investigate examples of curriculum internationalization that are not simply Western, but rather characterized by hybridity and complexity.

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Larsen, M.A. (2016). Transnational Pedagogies: Curricular Mobilities. In: Internationalization of Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53345-6_6

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