Pedagogies for Internationalising Research Education - Intellectual equality, theoretic-linguistic diversity and knowledge chuàngxīn

This book explores pedagogical concepts, metaphors and images of non-white, non-western researchers and research students on the inter/nationalization of education. Specifically, this book draws on the intellectual resources of China and India to explore the pedagogical dynamics and dimensions of the localization/globalization of education with non-Western characteristics. It introduces theoretic-linguistic non-Western concepts from the Tamil, Sanskrit and Chinese languages for use in Western, English-only education and redefines the intellectual basis for internationalising education. 

Debating whether 'international education' is Western-centric in terms of its privileging and promotion of Euro-American theoretical knowledge, this book contends that the internationalisation of Western-centric education can benefit from the intellectual power and powerfully relevant theorising performed by non-Western international students. It formulates a democratic vision for the internationalisation of education, with the potential to create transnational solidarity and constitute a forum for mobilising debates about global knowledge and power structures. It also provides key tools to use non-Western theoretic-linguistic tools and modes of critique in research undertaken in Anglophone Western universities.

Michael Singh provides research education for Higher Degree Researchers investigating innovations in the professional learning of language teacher-researchers; worldly orientations to internationalising education and work-integrated service learning.

Jinghe Han is a Senior Lecturer, poet and bilingual research educator in the Research Orientated School Engaged Teacher-researcher Education (ROSETE) Program in Multilingual International/Intercultural Education and Work.