Foundations Reading List

We recommend that researchers read the Essentials Reading List first before moving on to the articles listed below. The articles from the essentials guide are not repeated below.

Defining internationalisation

Buckner, E., & Stein, S. (2020). What counts as internationalization? Deconstructing the internationalization imperative. Journal of Studies in International Education, 24(2), 151–166. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315319829878 

de Wit, H. (2013). Reconsidering the concept of internationalization. International Higher Education, 70, 6–7. https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2013.70.8703.

Heleta, S., & Chasi, S. (2022). Rethinking and redefining internationalisation of higher education in South Africa using a decolonial lens. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 45(3), 261–275. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2022.2146566

Hou, Y. (2025). Rethinking ethical dilemmas in internationalisation of higher education: a Confucian Zhengming perspective. Globalisation, Societies and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2024.2446729

Huang, Z.M., Cockayne, H., & Mittelmeier, J. (2024). Towards diverse, critical understandings of ‘international’ for higher education. Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-08-2023-0277

Knight, J. (2004). Internationalization Remodeled: Definition, Approaches, and Rationales. Journal of Studies in International Education, 8(1), 5-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315303260832

Marginson, S. (2023). Limitations of the leading definition of ‘internationalisation’ of higher education: is the idea wrong or is the fault in reality? Globalisation, Societies and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2023.2264223

Qiang, Z. (2003). Internationalization of Higher Education: Towards a Conceptual Framework. Policy Futures in Education, 1(2), 248-270. https://doi.org/10.2304/pfie.2003.1.2.5

Yemini, M. (2014). Internationalisation discourse hits the tipping point: A new definition is needed. Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 19(1), 19–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603108.2014.966280

Critical reflections on internationalisation in higher education broadly

Bamberger, A., & Morris, P. (2024). Critical perspectives on internationalization in higher education: Commercialization, global citizenship, or postcolonial imperialism? Critical Studies in Education, 65(2), 128-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2023.2233572

Beck, K. (2012). Globalization/s: Reproduction and resistance in the internationalization of higher education. Canadian Journal of Education, 35(3), 133-148. https://www.jstor.org/stable/canajeducrevucan.35.3.133

Brandenburg, U., & de Wit, H. (2011). The end of internationalization. International Higher Education, 62, 15-17. https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2011.62.8533

Cantwell, B., and A. Maldonado-Maldonado. (2009). Four stories: Confronting contemporary ideas about globalisation and internationalization in higher education.” Globalisation, Societies and Education, 7(3), 289–306. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767720903166103

Cousin, G. (2011). Rethinking the concept of ‘western’. Higher Education Research and Development, 30(5), 585-594. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2011.598449

Gyamera, G.O., & Burke, P.J. (2018). Neoliberalism and curriculum in higher education: A post-colonial analysis. Teaching in Higher Education, 23(4), 450-467. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2017.1414782

Jiang, X. (2008). Towards the internationalisation of higher education from a critical perspective. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 32(4), 347–358. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098770802395561

Jones, E., Leask, B., Brandenburg, U., & de Wit, H. (2021). Global social responsibility and the internationalisation of higher education for society. Journal of Studies in International Education, 25(4), 330-347. https://doi.org/10.1177/10283153211031679

Knight, J. (2015). International universities: Misunderstandings and emerging models?. Journal of Studies in International Education, 19(2), 107-121. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315315572899

Leal, F., Finardi, K., & Abba, J. (2022). Challenges for an internationalization of higher education from and for the global south. Perspectives in Education, 40(3). https://hdl.handle.net/10520/ejc-persed_v40_n3_a16

Leask, B., & de Gayardon, A. (2021). Reimagining Internationalization for Society. Journal of Studies in International Education, 25(4), 323-329. https://doi.org/10.1177/10283153211033667

Ledger, S., & Kawalilak, C. (2020). Conscientious internationalisation in higher education: Contextual complexities and comparative tensions. Asia Pacific Education Review, 21, 653-665. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12564-020-09650-0

Lee, J.J., & Stensaker, B. (2021). Research on internationalisation and globalisation in higher education—Reflections on historical paths, current perspectives and future possibilities. European Journal of Education Research, Development, and Policy, 56(2), 157-168. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12448

Marginson, S. (1999). After globalization: Emerging politics of education. Journal of Education Policy, 14(1), 19-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/026809399286477

Marginson, S. (2008). Global field and global imagining: Bourdieu and worldwide higher education. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 29(3), 303-315. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425690801966386

Mok, K.H., & Montgomery, C. (2021). Remaking higher education for the post-COVID-19 era: Critical reflections of marketization, internationalization, and graduate employment. Higher Education Quarterly, 75(3), 373-380. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12330

Mulvey, B. (2022). Participatory parity as a way forward for critical internationalization studies. Studies in Higher Education, 47(12), 2417-2429. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2022.2072481

Pasby, K., & Andreotti, V.O. (2016). Ethical internationalisation in higher education: Interfaces with international development and sustainability. Environmental Education Research, 22(6), 771-787. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2016.1201789

Patiño-Santos, A., Trenchs-Parera, M., & Pastena, A. (2024). Becoming “global” in higher education: Positioning and agency in young people’s language biographies. Journal of Language, Identity & Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2024.2325128 [doi.org]

Ramaswamy, H.H.S., & Kumar, S. (2022). A critical analysis of unsustainable higher education internationalisation policies in developing economies. Policy Futures in Education, 20(4), 524-536. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478210321999186

Ramaswamy, H.H.S., Marcinuik, D.D., Colò, L., & Saso, L. (2021). Reimagining internationalization in higher education through the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for the betterment of society. Journal of Studies in International Education, 25(4), 388-406. https://doi.org/10.1177/10283153211031046

Rizvi, F., & Walsh, L. (1998). Difference, globalisation and the internationalisation of curriculum. Australian Universities’ Review, 41(2), 7–11.  https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=200001429;res=IELAPA 

Rizvi, F. (2019). Global interconnectivity and its ethical challenges in education. Asia Pacific Education Review, 20(2), 315–326. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12564-019-09596-y

Rizvi, F. (2020). Reimagining recovery for a more robust internationalization. Higher Education Research & Development, 39(7), 1313-1316. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2020.1823325

Singh, M. (1998). Globalism, cultural diversity and tertiary education. Australian Universities’ Review, The, 41(2), 12-17. https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/ielapa.200001430

Stein, S. (2017). Internationalization for an uncertain future: Tensions, paradoxes, and possibilities. The Review of Higher Education, 41(1), 3-32. https://doi.org/10.1353/rhe.2017.0031

Stein, S. (2021). Critical internationalization studies at an impasse: Making space for complexity, uncertainty, and complicity in a time of global challenges. Studies in Higher Education, 46(9), 1771-1784.  https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2019.1704722 

Stein, S., Andreotti, V., Bruce, J., & Suša, R. (2016). Towards different conversations about the internationalization of higher education. Comparative and International Education, 45(1). https://doi.org/10.5206/cie-eci.v45i1.9281

Uzhegova, D., & Baik, C. (2020). Internationalisation of higher education in an uneven world: an integrated approach to internationalisation of universities in the academic periphery. Studies in Higher Education, 47(4), 847–859. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2020.1811220

Vavrus, F., & Pekol, A. (2015). Critical internationalization: Moving from theory to practice. FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2 (2), 5-21. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1133848

Regional internationalisation processes

Aydinli, E., & Mathews, J. (2021). Searching for Larger Status in Global Politics: Internationalization of Higher Education in Turkey. Journal of Studies in International Education, 25(3), 247-265. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315320932325

Bonacina-Pugh, Florence, Barakos, Elisabeth and Chen, Qi. “Language policy in the internationalisation of Higher Education in Anglophone countries: The interplay between language policy as ‘text’, ‘discourse’ and ‘practice’” Applied Linguistics Review, vol. 13, no. 6, 2022, pp. 1103-1125. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2019-0148

Buckner, E., Clerk, S., Marroquin, A., & Zhang, Y. (2020). Strategic benefits, symbolic commitments: How Canadian colleges and universities frame internationalization. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 50(4), 20–36. https://doi.org/10.47678/cjhe.vi0.188827

Galloway, N., Numajiri, T. & Rees, N. (2020). The ‘internationalisation’, or ‘Englishisation’, of higher education in East Asia. Higher Education, 80, 395–414. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-019-00486-1

Guo, Y., Guo, S., Yochim, L., & Liu, X. (2022). Internationalization of Chinese Higher Education: Is It Westernization? Journal of Studies in International Education, 26(4), 436-453. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315321990745

Heleta, S., & Chasi, S. (2022). Rethinking and redefining internationalisation of higher education in South Africa using a decolonial lens. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 45(3), 261–275. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2022.2146566

Johnstone, M. & Lee, E. (2017). Canada and the global rush for international students: Reifying a neo-imperial order of Western dominance in the knowledge economy era. Critical Sociology, 43(7-8), 1063-1078. https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920516654554 

Kamola, I. (2014). US universities and the production of the global imaginary. The British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 16(3), 515-533.  https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1467-856X.2012.00540.x

Liu, W. (2020). The Chinese definition of internationalisation in higher education. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 43(2), 230–245. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2020.1777500

Lo, W., Hou, A.YC. (2020). A farewell to internationalisation? Striking a balance between global ambition and local needs in higher education in Taiwan. Higher Education, 80, 497–510. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-019-00495-0

Lomer, S., Mittelmeier, J., & Courtney, S. (2023). Typologising internationalisation in UK university strategies: reputation, mission and attitude. Higher Education Research & Development, 42(5), 1042–1056. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2193729

Moshtari, M., Safarpour, A. (2024). Challenges and strategies for the internationalization of higher education in low-income East African countries. Higher Education, 87, 89–109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-023-00994-1

Mok, K.H. (2007). Questing for internationalization of universities in Asia: Critical reflections. Journal of Studies in International Education, 11(3-4). https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315306291945

Ng, S.W. (2012). Rethinking the mission of internationalization of higher education in the Asia Pacific region. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 42(3), 439–459. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2011.652815

O’Connor, S. (2018). Problematising strategic internationalisation: Tensions and conflicts between international student recruitment and integration policy in Ireland. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 16(3), 339–352. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2017.1413979

Pan S. (2021). Reconceptualising ‘internationalisation’ in higher education: The case of Hong Kong. Higher Education Quarterly, 75, 487-499.  https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12286

Sá, C. M., & Sabzalieva, E. (2018). The politics of the great brain race: Public policy and international student recruitment in Australia, Canada, England and the USA. Higher Education, 75(2), 231-253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-017-0133-1

Sakhiyya, Z. (2022). Cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitics? The roles of university elites in the internationalisation of Indonesian higher education. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 22(5), 929–941. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2022.2115339

Singh, M., & Huang, X. (2013). Bourdieu’s lessons for internationalising Anglophone education: Declassifying Sino-Anglo divisions over critical theorising. Compare: a journal of comparative and international education, 43(2), 203-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2012.687128

Stein, S. (2018) National exceptionalism in the ‘EduCanada’ brand: Unpacking the ethics of internationalization marketing in Canada, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 39(3), 461-477, https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2016.1276884 

Thondhlana, J., Abdulrahman, H., Chiyevo Garwe, E., & McGrath, S. (2021). Exploring the internationalization of Zimbabwe’s higher education institutions through a decolonial lens: Postcolonial continuities and disruptions. Journal of Studies in International Education, 25(3), 228-246. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315320932319 

Ziguras, C., & Law, S. (2006). Recruiting international students as skilled migrants: The global ‘skills race’ as viewed from Australia and Malaysia. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 4(1), 59–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767720600555087

Historical overviews of internationalisation

See also Histories of International Students

Altbach, P.G., & de Wit, H. (2015) Internationalization and global tension: Lessons from history. Journal of Studies in International Education, 19(1), 4-10.  https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315314564734 

Börjesson, M., & Dalberg, T. (2021). Massification, unification, marketisation, internationalisation: a socio-political history of higher education in Sweden 1945–2020. European Journal of Higher Education, 11(3), 346–364. https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2021.1945473

Buckner, E. S. (2017). The changing discourse on higher education and the nation-state, 1960-2010. Higher Education, 74, 473-489. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-016-0056-2

Choudaha, R. (2017). Three waves of international student mobility (1999–2020). Studies in Higher Education, 42(5), 825-832.  https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2017.1293872 

Hou, M. (2024). Historical roots in positioning Chinese international students in the US: Race and culture from 1872-1949. Dialogues in Social Justice: An Adult Education Journal, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.55370/dsj.v9i2.1828

Indelicato, M. E., & Pražić, I. (2019). The legacy of Cold War anti-racism: A genealogy of cultural distance in the internationalisation of higher education. Paedagogica Historica, 55(2), 295–313. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2018.1551410 

Stein, S. (2020). A colonial history of the higher education present: Rethinking land-grant institutions through processes of accumulation and relations of conquest. Critical Studies in Education, 61(2), 212-228. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2017.1409646

Paik, A. N. (2013). Education and empire, old and new: HR 3077 and the resurgence of the US university. Cultural Dynamics, 25(1), 3-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374013491640

Macro influences of and on internationalisation

Bamberger, A., Morris, P., & Yemini, M. (2019). Neoliberalism, internationalisation, and higher education: Connections, contradictions, and alternatives. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 40(20), 203-216.  https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2019.1569879 

Buckner, E. (2020). Embracing the global: The role of ranking, research mandate, and sector in the internationalisation of higher education. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 52(2), 232–249.  https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2020.1753499

Chankseliani, M., Qoraboyev, I., & Gimranova, D. (2021). Higher education contributing to local, national, and global development: New empirical and conceptual insights. Higher Education, 81, 109-127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-020-00565-8

Collins, H. (2018). Interculturality from above and below: Navigating uneven discourses in a neoliberal university system. Language and Intercultural Communication, 18(2), 167–183. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2017.1354867 

Gomes, C. (2025). The wellbeing turn: A necessary consideration in international student mobility. Population, Space, and Place, 31(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2834

Hauptman Komotar, M. (2019). Global university rankings and their impact on the internationalisation of higher education. European Journal of Education, 54(2), 299–310. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12332 

Jacobs, E. (2022). The homogenizing and diversifying effects of migration policy in the internationalization of higher education. Higher Education, 83, 339–355. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-020-00658-4

Katsumoto, S., Bowman, N.A., & Tennessen, N.F. (2024). The role of rankings in shaping institutional enrollment of international students. Higher Education, 88, 2145-2164. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01208

Lomer, S. (2017). Soft power as a rationale for international education in the UK: A critical analysis. Higher Education, 74, 581-598. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-016-0060-6 

Marginson, S. (2006). Dynamics of national and global competition in higher education. Higher Education, 52, 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1007%252Fs10734-004-7649-x

Marginson, S. (2021). What drives global science? The four competing narratives. Studies in Higher Education, 52(2), 232–249.  https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2021.1942822

Marginson, S., & Van der Wende, M. (2007). To rank or to be ranked: The impact of global rankings in higher education. Journal of studies in international education, 11(3-4), 306-329. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315307303544

Martinez, C.A.F. (2022). University, neoliberalism and hegemonic bodies: Narratives of international students in Chile. Gender and Education, 5(1), 89–103. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2022.2142529

Mulvey, B. (2020). International higher education and public diplomacy: A case study of Ugandan graduates from Chinese universities. Higher Education Policy, 33(3), 459-477. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-019-00174-w

Shahjahan, R. A. & Edwards, K. (2022). Whiteness as futurity and globalization of higher education. Higher Education, 83 (2), 747–764.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-021-00702-x

Shahjahan, R. A., Blanco Ramirez, G., & Andreotti, V. D. O. (2017). Attempting to imagine the unimaginable: A decolonial reading of global university rankings. Comparative Education Review, 61(S1), S51-S73. https://doi.org/10.1086/690457

Sondhi, G. (2024). The failure of infrastructures of international student (im)mobility: Case of Covid-19. Population, Space, and Place.  https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2837 

Stehr, N., & Ufer, U. (2009). On the global distribution and dissemination of knowledge. International Social Science Journal, 60(195), 7-24.  https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2451.2009.01697.x

Tan, Y.S., & Goh, S.K. (2014). International students, academic publications and world university rankings: The impact of globalisation and responses of a Malaysian public university. Higher Education, 68(4), 489–502. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-014-9724-2

Tavares, V.  (2022). Neoliberalism, native-speakerism and the displacement of international students’ languages and cultures. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 45(8), 3045–3058. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2022.2084547 

Yang, L., & Tian, L. (2022). Rethinking the ‘global’ in global higher education studies: From the lens of the Chinese idea of tianxia. Oxford Review of Education, 48(4), 536-553. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2022.2079617

Inequalities and intersectionalities under internationalisation

Edwards, K.T., & Shahjahan, R.A. (2024). Antiblackness as global aspiration? Centering Black studies in global higher education research. Educational Researcher. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X241281051

Forbes-Mewett, H., & Nyland, C. (2013). Funding international student support services: Tension and power in the university. Higher Education, 65(2), 181-192. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-012-9537-0

Glass, C. R., Streitwieser, B., & Gopal, A. (2019). Inequities of global mobility: socioeconomic stratification in the meanings of a university education for international students. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 51(1), 43–60. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2019.1590180

Hagen, J. (2022). Queer feminist interruptions to internationalising UK higher education. British Educational Research Journal, 48(5), 996-1007. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3805

Hernandez, G. L. (2023). Emotional difficulties: Racial representation in Swiss international higher education. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 8(2), 74-87. https://doi.org/10.32674/jimphe.v8i2.5778

Hernandez, G. (2023). Racial dis/Embodiment: A discourse theoretical analysis of university international offices’ websites. Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education, 15(5), 82-96. https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v15i5.5601

Le Ha, P. (2024). Confronting complicity and transforming complicity in EDI, IHE, and international students: Some scattered thoughts. Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/edi-11-2024-0548/full/html

Coloniality, decoloniality, and internationalisation

Andreotti, V.O. (2011). (Towards) decoloniality and diversality in global citizenship education. Globalisation, Societies, and Education, 9(3–4), 381–397.  https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2011.605323

Bamberger, A., Yan, F., & Morris, P. (2021). Adapting ‘internationalization’ to integrate ‘troublesome’ minorities: Higher education policies towards Hong Kong and East Jerusalem. Journal of Education Policy, 38(2), 254–276. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2021.2002419

Chatterjee, S., & Barber, K. (2020). Between ‘here-now’ and ‘there-then’: The West and Asia’s colonial entanglements in international higher education. Higher Education, 81, 221-239. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-020-00538-x

Joseph, C. (2008). Difference, subjectivities, and power: (De)colonizing practices in internationalizing the curriculum. Intercultural Education, 19(1), 29-39.  https://doi.org/10.1080/14675980701852350

le Grange, L. (2018). Decolonising, Africanising, indigenising, and internationalising curriculum studies: Opportunities to (re)imagine the field. Journal of Education, 74, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.17159/2520-9868/i74a01 

Majee, U. (2020). Beyond the global-local binaries of higher education internationalization in post-apartheid South Africa. Journal of Studies in International Education, 24(1), 131-147. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315319889869

Majee, U. S., & Ress, S. B. (2018). Colonial legacies in internationalisation of higher education: racial justice and geopolitical redress in South Africa and Brazil. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 50(4), 463–481. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2018.1521264

Mendoza, P. (2024). Activist scholarship and borderland feminism: Resisting coloniality in liminal internationalization. The Review of Higher Education, 47(2), 163–188. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/914958

Papoutsaki, E. & Rooney, D. (2006). Colonial legacies and neo-colonial practices in Papua New Guinean higher education. Higher Education Research and Development, 25(4), 421-433. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360600947434

R’boul, H. (2022). Intercultural philosophy and internationalisation of higher education: epistemologies of the South, geopolitics of knowledge and epistemological polylogue. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 46(8), 1149–1160. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2022.2055451

Rizvi, F., Lingard, B., & Lavia, J. (2006). Postcolonialism and education: Negotiating a contested terrain. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 14(3), 249-262. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681360600891852

Rizvi, F. (2007). Postcolonialism and globalisation in education. Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies, 7(3), 256–263. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708607303606

Shahjahan, R. A. (2014). From ‘no’to ‘yes’: Postcolonial perspectives on resistance to neoliberal higher education. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 35(2), 219-232. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2012.745732

Shahjahan, R. A., & Morgan, C. (2016). Global competition, coloniality, and the geopolitics of knowledge in higher education. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 37(1), 92-109. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2015.1095635

Simpson, J. S., James, C.E., & Mack, J. (2011). Multiculturalism, colonialism, and racialization: Conceptual starting points. Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, 33(4), 285-305. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714413.2011.597637

Stein, S. (2017). The persistent challenges of addressing epistemic dominance in higher education: Considering the case of curriculum internationalization. Comparative Education Review, 61(S1), 25-50.  https://doi.org/10.1086/690456

Stein, S. (2019). Beyond higher education as we know it: Gesturing towards decolonial horizons of possibility. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 38, 143-161. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-018-9622-7

Stein, S. (2020). ‘Truth before reconciliation’: the difficulties of transforming higher education in settler colonial contexts. Higher Education Research & Development, 39(1), 156-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2019.1666255

Udah, H. (2021). Coloniality of power and international student experience: What are the ethical responsibilities of social work and human service educators?, Ethics and Social Welfare, 15(1), 84-99. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496535.2021.1880612

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