Developing Academics’ Capacity for Internationalizing the Curriculum: A Collaborative Autoethnography of a Cross-Institutional Project

Developing academics’ capacity for internationalizing the curriculum (IoC) is essential but challenging. There is a lack of understanding of how the IoC framework can be implemented in reality and of how educational developers can facilitate the process. This collaborative autoethnography explores t...

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Published in:Journal of studies in international education 2022-07, Vol.26 (3), p.334-351
Main Authors: Zou, Tracy X. P., Law, Lisa Y. N., Chu, Beatrice C. B., Lin, Vienne, Ko, Tiffany, Lai, Nicole K. Y.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Autobiographies
College Curriculum
College Faculty
Communities of Practice
Curriculum Development
Educational Development
Ethnography
Expertise
Foreign Countries
Global Approach
Power Structure
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Summary:Developing academics’ capacity for internationalizing the curriculum (IoC) is essential but challenging. There is a lack of understanding of how the IoC framework can be implemented in reality and of how educational developers can facilitate the process. This collaborative autoethnography explores the cultivation over 3 years of a community of practice for developing academics’ IoC capacity facilitated by six educational developers in three universities in Hong Kong. The findings reveal a complex balancing act among various forces in the areas of domain, community, practice, power, identity, and broader context, the last three of which are insufficiently addressed in the literature. This article adds value by illustrating how IoC theories and communities of practice interact with multiple forces in the environment and our own agency, and are negotiated within a particular context.
ISSN:1028-3153
1552-7808
DOI:10.1177/1028315320976040