This book explores pedagogical concepts, metaphors and images of
non-white, non-western researchers and research students on the
inter/nationalization of education. Specifically, this book draws on the
intellectual resources of China and India to explore the pedagogical
dynamics and dimensions of the localization/globalization of education
with non-Western characteristics. It introduces theoretic-linguistic
non-Western concepts from the Tamil, Sanskrit and Chinese languages for
use in Western, English-only education and redefines the intellectual
basis for internationalising education.
Debating whether 'international education' is Western-centric in terms
of its privileging and promotion of Euro-American theoretical knowledge,
this book contends that the internationalisation of Western-centric
education can benefit from the intellectual power and powerfully
relevant theorising performed by non-Western international students. It
formulates a democratic vision for the internationalisation of
education, with the potential to create transnational solidarity and
constitute a forum for mobilising debates about global knowledge and
power structures. It also provides key tools to use non-Western
theoretic-linguistic tools and modes of critique in research undertaken
in Anglophone Western universities.