Decolonizing the internationalization of higher education in the Global South : applying principles of critical applied linguistics to processes of internationalization/ Kleber Aparecido da Silva (Editor), Lauro Sérgio Machado Pereira (Editor)

Includes bibliographic references and index.

"This book reconceives the internationalization of higher education from the perspective of Global-South researchers, empowering and giving visibility to this discourse. Challenging the first assumptions of internationalization of higher education (IHE) as something overwhelmingly positive owing to the way it directly impacts the university activities and their world rankings, it instead takes a critical perspective, acknowledging that this process is associated with a neo-liberal and colonial orientation that focuses on the maintenance of historically sustained hierarchy, oppressive relations that stimulate the production of knowledge, and education as a commodity and not as a factor of social transformation. As such, it challenges recent trends towards an increase in internationalization strategies within higher education that privilege Global-North outgoing mobilities and research collaborations to sustain the position of the educational institutions in the international rankings. From this locus, IHE is seen to evolve not only in the fields of teaching, research, and service of an educational institution but also to boost the world's social development.

da Silva, K. A., & Pereira, L. S. M. (Eds.). (2024). Decolonizing the internationalization of higher education in the Global South: Applying principles of critical applied linguistics to processes of internationalization. Routledge.