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The art of internationalisation: 'unstrategic' dialogical cosmopolitanism within secondary schools in England

Waters, Johanna LL; Brooks, Rachel; (2022) The art of internationalisation: 'unstrategic' dialogical cosmopolitanism within secondary schools in England. Social & Cultural Geography 10.1080/14649365.2022.2143880. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

This paper explores English schools’ engagement with ‘internationalisation’ in the context of funding cuts and a highly pressured audit culture. The broader literature suggests two reasons why schools might partake in ‘internationalisation’. The first concerns the ‘strategic cosmopolitan’–schools are complicit in facilitating cosmopolitanism amongst the pupil body so that young people may attain ‘positional advantage’ in a crowded international or global labour market. The second invokes a deeper sense of ethics and a more equal ‘exchange’ of ideas. We use ‘art’ as a lens to explore this latter conception: proposing that artistic pursuits enable a more dialogic notion of internationalisation to develop. Focussing on international exchanges between schools in the Global North and Global South that foreground specifically artistic projects (involving drama, literature, fashion, textiles, art, creative writing, film making, dance and music), we illustrate a potentially more ethical, rich and meaningful form of ‘internationalisation’, which does not obviously conform to the notion of inherent and demonstrable (capitalised) value. We propose that educational value might be understood differently: in non-strategic, intrinsic and more essential ways, and that, furthermore, internationalisation can be fun.

Type: Article
Title: The art of internationalisation: 'unstrategic' dialogical cosmopolitanism within secondary schools in England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2022.2143880
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2143880
Language: English
Additional information: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Social Sciences, Geography, internationalisation, schools, cosmopolitanism, arts, dialogical self, GEOGRAPHIES, EDUCATION, MOBILITY, SELF
UCL classification: UCL
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10172169
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