Dr. Juliana Zeggio & Dr. Roxana Chiappa - Potentialities of decentering internationalization of HED
Channel: Critical Internationalization Studies Network
Date: 2022-02-14

This lecture is part of the Critical Internationalization Studies Masterclass. To enroll for free, or learn more about it, please go to https://criticalinternationalization.thinkific.com/

About the Lecture:

In this master class, we highlight some of the problems, challenges, constraints, and potentialities we see in the internationalization of higher education. We first consider the possibility of engaging in experiences of internationalization that escape the historical global south and global north divide. To do that, we define what we mean by global south and explain how we entangle internationalization and globalization within modernity/coloniality. From our perspective, internationalization has always been a historical, cultural and political process associated with the colonial legacy. Following that, we present a pedagogical approach we co-elaborated and defined as a ‘pedagogy of decentering with a decolonial intention’, which we see as a potential approach to reconceptualize mobility in internationalization. In order to explain it, we bring questions and examples. The class closes with an invitation for participants to experience the ‘pedagogy of decentering’ in their own contexts.

About the Speakers:

Juliana Zeggio Martinez is a tenured Professor of English in the Department of Foreign Languages at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil. She is also a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sao Paulo. Juliana holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Sao Paulo, with a doctoral internship at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She also teaches and supervises postgraduate students in Language Studies at the Federal University of Parana. Moreover, Juliana collaborates at a Centre for Continuing Language Teacher Education (NAP-UFPR), which was created to enhance the relationship among teacher educators, pre-service and in-service teachers, fostering the relationship between higher education and basic school teachers. Her research interests lie in critical applied linguistics, critical literacy, language teacher education, internationalization of higher education, and decolonial studies. Contact: jumartinez@ufpr.br

Roxana Chiappa is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Taracapá, Chile and an associated researcher at Rhodes University, South Africa. She holds a PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. She teaches various modules about teaching and learning in higher education, social justice, and decolonial theories in both higher education postgraduate diploma and doctoral programs. Roxana also facilitates a weekly mindfulness workshop for Rhodes postgraduate students and academics. Her research and teaching agenda touches upon the question of how historical and structural inequalities get reproduced in the scientific and higher education systems among countries, higher education institutions, and societal groups. Roxana has been spending most of her time on a research project that seeks to elucidate how Chilean academic elites in different disciplinary fields facilitate the entrance of individuals coming from historically underrepresented backgrounds in the academic profession. Contact: chiappa.roxana@gmail.com 

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