VOLUME 8(1) • 2020
Editorial: Can Chinese Internationalism Re-Flatten the Earth? International Student Mobility, Hospitality and Chinese Higher Education
ABSTRACT. International student mobility takes place within the framework of globalized international education and concerns the decision by an individual to move abroad for the purposes of acquiring an international education (Riano & Piguet, 2016). International student mobility has been categ..
Critical Pedagogy According to Marx: On Western Marxism, the New Marx Reading and Its Connections to Pedagogy
ABSTRACT. The article brings together variants of German pedagogical Marx reception and three central historical readings of Marx’s theory. After an overview of the interpretations of Traditional Marxism, Western Marxism, and the New Marx Reading, it is shown that the pedagogical reception is predom..
The Kill Chain: Epistemologies and Ethics in the Securitized Academy
ABSTRACT. In the light of terrorism threats worldwide, universities have become increasingly conscious of and committed to enhancing the security of campuses, the safety of staff and students, and the protection of academic knowledge. By such processes, universities have become partners, conscious o..
The University of We: Value-Sensitive Design for an Ethical University
ABSTRACT. In this article, the authors propose the ethical university may be manifested as the University of We: a university of character and care. We define the ethical university as a “value-sensitive design” that encapsulates and promotes certain virtues, values, habits of mind and practices whi..
Democratic Ontologies of Knowledge: Importance Should Be a Given and My Ethical Task Is to Intensify It
ABSTRACT. In this paper, I interrogate ethical and political implications of autoethnography as activism and way of academic life. I indirectly ask, what might democratic ontologies of knowledge produce in higher education. I focus on a – more than – refusing to be hemmed – wild – Denzinian performa..
Controversies of Expressive Arts Education in Portugal: Insights from Policies and Practices
ABSTRACT. Shaped by the pedagogical relationship that teachers create in their school places, the relevant curriculum corresponds to this learning experience, a curriculum that is guided by international policies that have been changing school practices over the years. Expressive arts’ education is ..
Emergent Creativity across and between Disciplines
ABSTRACT. Creativity has been adopted as a mantra across more industries and disciplines than ever before. It crosses borders and silos and is embraced in unexpected sectors. Yet we know very little about how to foster transdisciplinary creativity across and between all the disciplines in our univer..
The Daily Self-presentation of International Students in China: A Case Study with the Perspective of Sociological Institutionalism
ABSTRACT. The international education has developed greatly in Chinese higher education. This study aimed to explore international students’ daily self-presentation in a cased university in China with qualitative research methods from the perspective of sociological institutionalism. Based on the qu..