Dr. Alma Maldonado - The Role of International Organizations in the Internationalization Process
Channel: Critical Internationalization Studies Network
Date: 2022-02-14

This lecture is part of the Critical Internationalization Studies Masterclass

About the Lecture:

This lecture provides a brief revision on the different ways international organizations have influenced the internationalization of higher education. First, the large scope of influence from these agencies worldwide is discussed. Then, the lecture provides the different aspects where international organizations have played a role in the internationalization of higher education institutions globally. It concludes with the question of whether international organizations have influenced higher education, making it more global and international. 

About the Speaker:

Alma Maldonado-Maldonado is a researcher at the Educational Research Department-CINVESTAV in Mexico City. She earned her Ph.D. at the Boston College’s Center for International Higher Education in the U.S. Her research focuses on comparative higher education, academic mobility, international organizations, higher education policy and research in Latin America.

Previously, she was an assistant professor at the University of Arizona's Center for the Study of Higher Education in the U.S. Maldonado was born in Mexico City and obtained her undergraduate education at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). 

More information: http://www.die.cinvestav.mx/Personalacad%C3%A9mico/DraAlmaMaldonadoMaldonado.aspx.
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Suggested Readings:

To engage further with this topic, Dr. Maldonado-Maldonado suggests the following readings:

1.- Maldonado-Maldonado, A. (2019). Global Reports on Education and International Organisations: Cartography for the 21st Century. In: Brylinski, E. GlobalMonitoring of National Educational Development: Coercive or Constructive? Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Económico (CIDE), Network for International Policies and Cooperation in Education and Training (NORRAG), Swiss Agency for development and Cooperation. (3), 60-62. ISSN: 2571-8010. 

2.- Maldonado-Maldonado Alma. (2018). The expansión of markets and the rise of skills: two roads leading to the same place – Higher Education in the current agendas of the International Organisations. In Sin, C., Tavares, O., Cardoso, S. & Rosa, M.J. European Higher Education ante the Internal Market. Tensions between European policy and National Sovereignty. Springer, Switzerland. pp 193-228. ISBN: 978-3-319-91880-8. 

3.- Maldonado- Maldonado A. (2012). International forces shaping Latin American higher education governance. In Shuetze. H. Bruneau, W. y Grosjean G. University Governance and Reform. Policy, fads and experience in International Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan. International and Development Education Series, New York, pp. 109-124.

4.- Basset, Roberta and Maldonado-Maldonado, Alma (eds.) (2009) International Organizations and Higher Education Policy: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally? Routledge Taylor and Francis.

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