Questioning the prevailing discourse and practice of internationalization of higher education in Latin America

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.28.3904

Keywords:

Higher Education, Internationalization, Hegemony, Coloniality

Abstract

This essay puts forth an epistemological reflection of the prevailing discourse and practice of internationalization of higher education in Latin America. The reflection is based in the following arguments: 1. Under the foundation of a global hierarchical imaginary, internationalization of higher education in Latin America is immersed in a cultural matrix that potentially reinforces unequal geographies of power, knowledge and being; 2. Higher education refers to a relational field of disputes, with questions, fissures and contradictions to the prevailing order; and 3. An effective and emancipatory way of facing the hegemony and coloniality of the internationalization of higher education is to promote a counter-hegemonic and anti-colonial internationalization, that provokes other ways of thinking, doing and living the university institution. In order to reflect on the perspectives and limits of “other forms of internationalization of higher education” in Latin America, reference is made to the idea of Modernity/(De)Coloniality, as well as to historical evidence of South-Global’s distancing from the predominant order.

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Author Biographies

Fernanda Leal, State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC) and Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC)

Doctorate student at the State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC) and Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) (employee at the International Office).

Mário César Barreto Moraes, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC)

Doutor em Engenharia de Produção pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). Professor Titular da Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC). Conselheiro do Conselho Estadual de Educação do Estado de Santa Catarina. Membro do Conselho Consultivo da Associação Nacional dos Cursos de Graduação em Administração. Presidente da Comissão Nacional de Avaliação da Educação Superior.

María Soledad Oregioni, Universidad Nacional del Centro de La Provincia de Buenos Aires

Doctora en Ciencias Sociales y Humanas por la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ), Argentina. Investigadora del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina,  integrante del Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarios en Problemáticas Internacionales y Locales (CEIPIL) de la UNICEN, Centro Asociado a la Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Published

2020-09-07

How to Cite

Leal, F., Moraes, M. C. B., & Oregioni, M. S. (2020). Questioning the prevailing discourse and practice of internationalization of higher education in Latin America. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 28, 132. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.28.3904

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