This volume makes a distinctive and innovative contribution to
the globalisation of higher education literature by highlighting
the myriad benefits of academic migration. Sixteen academic
migrants across the Asia-Pacific region reflect on their
experiences and wisdom gained across geographical, cultural and
disciplinary domains. Each one provides an authentic account of
ways in which their experiences and insights have benefited their
host institutions and enhanced their pedagogical practice. The
groundbreaking volume calls for a shift in academic culture - one
in which academic migrants are respected for their cultural, social
and intellectual resources, their enhanced interpretive ability and
their capacity to view the world through multiple lenses. Are these
not the characteristics of educators which universities seek in
their efforts to internationalise their institutions and develop in
their students an understanding of global citizenship? The volume
forges new territory in articulating the relationship between
academic migrants, conceptual understanding and the construction of
knowledge.
The following themes are addressed in this book: Migration of
Ideas, Conceptual Understanding and Pedagogical
EnrichmentIndigenous Pedagogies and Bridging WorldviewsChanging
Academic Identities and Reshaping PedagogiesTeaching Practice and
the Academic Diaspora.
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