This chapter argues that better outcomes for staff engagement in higher education internationalization can be realized by conceptualizing internationalization as a form of institutional change. Top-down and directive approaches to engaging faculty and staff in change initiatives in higher education internationalization are often ineffective. Recent literature on university faculty/staff engagement in higher education internationalization is used to inform a discussion of how to stimulate the engagement of all faculty/staff in internationalization. There is a substantial body ofliterature on staff engagement in internationalization in higher education, much if it focused on the experiences of institutions seeking to engage their staff in internationalization. Research in institutions outside of higher education has explored how institutional change either affords or constrains staff engagement, but within the higher education internationalization context this area of research has been largely overlooked.
- Engaging faculty and Staff in the Internationalization of Higher Education
- Craig Whitsed - Curtin UniversityJeanine Gregersen-Hermans - Thomas More Univ Appl Sci, Rotterdam, NetherlandsMarina Casals - Univ Rovira & Virgili, Int Relat, Tarragona, SpainBetty Leask - Univ Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Ctr Higher Educ Int, Milan, Italy
- D K Deardorff (Editor)H DeWit (Editor)B Leask (Editor)H Charles (Editor)Francisco Marmolejo (Contributor)
- The Handbook of International Higher Education, pp.325-342
- Routledge as part of the Taylor and Francis Group; NEW YORK
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