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The five-year period is marked by the geopolitical tensions and internationalization issues at both national and international levels, in the middle of a global pandemic. We provide readers with a coherent organization of articles, grouped into ten themes that relate to the most central issues facing international(ization of) higher education, which are relevant today and in the future.
While readers of the higher education research community will find these themes familiar, this book is also tailored for a more diverse audience. Policymakers and practitioners worldwide will find this book helpful when seeking a comprehensive and approachable guide to navigating the complexities of international dimensions and trends in higher education. This collection is a valuable resource for courses worldwide that focus on global issues and the internationalization of higher education.
The five-year period is marked by the geopolitical tensions and internationalization issues at both national and international levels, in the middle of a global pandemic. We provide readers with a coherent organization of articles, grouped into ten themes that relate to the most central issues facing international(ization of) higher education, which are relevant today and in the future.
While readers of the higher education research community will find these themes familiar, this book is also tailored for a more diverse audience. Policymakers and practitioners worldwide will find this book helpful when seeking a comprehensive and approachable guide to navigating the complexities of international dimensions and trends in higher education. This collection is a valuable resource for courses worldwide that focus on global issues and the internationalization of higher education.
Contributors are: Tasha Austin, Lena Barrantes-Elizondo, Kisha Bryan, Quanisha Charles, May F. Chung, Ayanna Cooper, Tanya Cowie, Taslim Damji, Darlyne de Haan, Su Yin Khor, Sarah Henderson Lee, Gloria Park, Ana-Marija Petrunic, Doaa Rashed, Kate Mastruserio Reynolds, Teri Rose Dominica Roh, Mary Romney-Schaab, Amira Salama, Cristina Sánchez-Martín, Xatli Stox, Debra Suarez, Shannon Tanghe, Lan Wang-Hiles, Marie Webb and Amea Wilbur.
Contributors are: Tasha Austin, Lena Barrantes-Elizondo, Kisha Bryan, Quanisha Charles, May F. Chung, Ayanna Cooper, Tanya Cowie, Taslim Damji, Darlyne de Haan, Su Yin Khor, Sarah Henderson Lee, Gloria Park, Ana-Marija Petrunic, Doaa Rashed, Kate Mastruserio Reynolds, Teri Rose Dominica Roh, Mary Romney-Schaab, Amira Salama, Cristina Sánchez-Martín, Xatli Stox, Debra Suarez, Shannon Tanghe, Lan Wang-Hiles, Marie Webb and Amea Wilbur.
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I write this autoethnography to narrate and analyze experiences from my professional life’s history that I believe have shaped my identity as a female leader in my context. I describe my identity development within the framework of professional identity tensions, cultural contexts of gender and age. I reflect on language as a cultural lens that can influence interactions and practices of non-native speakers in the TESOL context and describe emerging as a young female leader in a context that associates competence with age and leadership with males. I hope this analysis and reflections of my autoethnography as a female leader from Egypt and Africa will help in understanding the complex processes of leadership identity construction for women in similar contexts and contribute to the literature about TESOL leadership by bringing an experience of a leader from a context that is rarely researched.
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In this collaborative autoethnography (CAE), we, three educators in post-secondary institutions in British Columbia, Canada, explore our attempts to decolonize our work. This research is informed by the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and our engagement with reconciliation. Methodologically, CAE allowed us to examine each other’s assumptions and experiences as we work to decolonize and address social injustice in our practices as educational leaders. We begin our piece with critical incidents that have led us to rethink and reframe our work as educators. Addressing our research questions, we observed the messiness and complexity in our work. To begin the process of decolonizing our work, what is needed is self-reflection, a re-imagining of current practices, active engagement through relational approaches and strong communities of practice.
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Through an autoethnographic inquiry, and from an Asian female’s perspective, this chapter depicts my leadership identity formation and transformation in U.S. higher education. I share my lived experiences of challenges, successes, and hidden efforts during my leadership role and academic career establishment over my transnational and cross-cultural trajectories, reflect on my personal and professional growth from a monolingual and monocultural student to become a bilingual and bicultural English teacher in U.S. higher education. With the driving purpose of advocating for Asian female non-native English-speaking TESOL professionals in Western academia, I also share my strategies in making sociocultural adjustments in coping with difficulties, and negotiating for professional, power, racial, and gender equality.