1st Edition

Reimagining Border in Cross-border Education

Edited By Neeta Inamdar, Pranjali Kirloskar Copyright 2024

    Universities are inherently and definitionally universal in their quest for the creation and dissemination of knowledge. They are set to defy borders that exist in parochial forms. Globalization which opened up borders has by design or default created inequalities and imbalances in knowledge systems. Undoubtedly, knowledge is power but there is difference in the power that is intrinsic to it and the power that is ascribed which is determined by dominant political and economic hierarchies.

    If knowledge predominantly flows from global north to global south, people seeking knowledge move from global south to global north. These imbalances are also seen within these regions, between cultures and communities, one claiming superiority over the other. These realities call for a reassessment of not only what constitutes knowledge, but also what encompasses the idea of borders.

    This book elaborates on the inclusive role of education that can act as an equalizer or as a catalyst for creating a level playing field across borders.

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    Cross-border Education, Globalization and Asymmetries

    1. Emergence of Central and Eastern European Countries as Destinations of International Education

    Pranjali Kirloskar and Neeta Inamdar

    2. Swedish Students’ Outbound Mobility: An Estimation of the Post-COVID-19 Situation

    Per Nilsson

    3. Knowledge Transfer and Management Beyond Borders: An Indo-German Collaboration Perspective

    Elizabeth K. Songate, Maren Büttner, Netra Bhandari and Valia Carvalho

    4. The Impact of Globalization on the Internationalization of Higher Education Policies: A Southeast European Perspective

    Tamara Dagen and Melita Kovačević

    5. Internationalization of Higher Education Across Borders and the Gendered Perspective

    Sonam Arora

    6. Towards a Sustainable Future and Social Justice: Crossing Borders in Doctoral Education Research

    Maresi Nared and Christian Peters

    Cross-border Education and the Dynamics of International Relations

    7. Global Knowledge Flows, Institutional Hierarchies, and the Roles of Nation States

    Kurt Hübner and Conrad King

    8. Overlapping Spaces of Competition: Unravelling Higher Education Regionalism

    Priya Vijaykumar Poojary and Neeta Inamdar

    9. Role of Knowledge Diplomacy in Bridging the North-South Divide

    Arundhati M A

    10. Bridging the Gap between Populist Governments and Internationalization of Higher Education: A Look at Relationship between the UK and India

    Medini Hegde

    11. Comparing Regional Cooperation Developments in the Higher Education Sector in Europe and the Indo-Pacific: In Search of Explanations

    Cesar Prado

    12. The Role of Higher Education in the EU Development Cooperation Policy

    Stefano Greco

    Digital Learning and Alternative Pedagogies

    13. Introducing “Critical Global Pedagogies” – A Conceptual Model Designed to Rebalance the Power

    Dynamics of Knowledge Systems

    Pollyanna Magne

    14. Virtual Learning Contours in Students of Indian Higher Education Institutions

    Sayantan Mandal and Sheriya Sareen

    15. A Permacrisis Compass: What Does the Digital Transformation Bring to the European Higher

    Education and Research?

    Zane Šime

    Biography

    Neeta Inamdar is Professor and Head of the Manipal Centre for European Studies (MCES), Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal. She was instrumental in establishing MCES in 2009 and since then, has led it through the years to make it a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence that offers the only master’s program in European Studies in India. Though interested in various aspects of the European economy, society, and culture, she is more drawn toward education in Europe—both school and higher education as reflected in the projects led by her in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), and Bologna Process and Internationalization of Higher Education. She believes in people-to-people “connect” as a means for peaceful coexistence and focuses on research on the educational connect between India and Europe. She has been a recipient of the Jean Monnet module (2014-2017) and Jean Monnet Chair (2017-2020). She was instrumental in the formation of the Association of European Studies in India (AESI) and is presently the Secretary of AESI.

    Pranjali Kirloskar is lecturer at Manipal Centre for European Studies, MAHE. She has worked on her doctoral thesis in the area of the internationalization of higher education. Presently, she teaches modules of Education, Globalization and Society, Educational Strategic Planning and Management, International Education, Inclusiveness in Education, and others. She is also the Coordinator for the Centre for Education Research at MAHE. She closely works with the partner universities in Europe, Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility Programmes as well as facilitates student and staff mobility at the Department. Pranjali, as a recipient of the Erasmus Mundus scholarship, studied at Leiden University for the academic year 2014-2015 as an exchange student during her master’s degree in European Studies.