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T835
انگلیسی
The internationalization of higher education in an era of globalization: A case study of a national research university in an emerging municipality in Southwest China
[Thesis]
;supervisor: Robison, Mark P.; Diamond, Mike
University of Southern California: United States -- California
: 2012
236 Pages
Ed.D.
With their increasing engagement in the global economy, Chinese higher education institutions are striving for producing educated and trained graduates to enhance the country's global competitiveness in the knowledge-based economy (Chan &Lo, 2008). Internationalization is then regarded as a response to the challenges issued by globalization and is conceived as a way for active Chinese universities' agency to further their research, teaching and service functions to compete with foreign rivals. However, the regional disparities in Chinese higher education development and national policies that concentrate its financial support on top-tier research universities result in an increasing gap among Chinese higher education institutions in their internationalization development. This study analyzed the dynamics of internationalization of Chongqing University, a national research university located in Southwest China, where higher education development status and potential significantly lag behind average. A case study was conducted at Chongqing University to examine the rationales and strategies for its internationalization, and to identify the remaining work needed to be done to reach its future internationalization goal. This study answered the following research questions: • What rationales guide internationalization strategies Chongqing University utilizes at present? • What strategies does Chongqing University utilize to advance its internationalization? • What remaining work needs to be done to reach Chongqing University's future internationalization goal? Due to the absence of sound theoretical framework in current research, the researcher developed a hybrid framework for institutional internationalization combining aspects of several existing frameworks into a new tool suitable for this study. This three-phase analytical framework is a process approach providing a holistic understanding of the dynamics of internationalization of the study institution, rather than a fragmented activities-based approach to simply quantify the output. This case study provides a picture of internationalization at a typical Chinese research university, a representative of mainstream Chinese public universities with less capacity and fewer resources for internationalization than China's top-tier universities. It also adds to knowledge on the internationalization of Chinese higher education as a whole, which has unique attributes that distinguish it from internationalization at Western higher education institutions.
Asian Studies
Higher education
Social sciences
Education
China
Globalization
Higher education
International education
Internationalization
Research university
Jiang, Xin
Robison, Mark P., supervisor
Diamond, Mike, supervisor
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