Internationalisation and indigenisation in Papua New Guinea's universities: promoting authentic agency

In uncertain times for higher education learning communities, the risks of societal and epistemic dependence on a single globally dominant set of academic knowledge practices are evident. Nonetheless, many higher education institutions in developing nations struggle to achieve international presence...

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Published in:Journal of higher education policy and management 2018-11, Vol.40 (6), p.550-565
Main Authors: Baird, Jeanette, Kula-Semos, Maretta Alup
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic achievement
Authenticity
Barriers
Colleges
Colleges & universities
Constraints
Cultural Influences
Developing countries
Empowerment
Foreign Countries
Foreign Policy
Global Approach
Globalization
Higher Education
Indigenisation
Indigenous Knowledge
International education
International students
Internationalisation
LDCs
Learning
Local knowledge
Localisation
Localization
postcolonial
Postcolonialism
University administration
University planning
University role
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Summary:In uncertain times for higher education learning communities, the risks of societal and epistemic dependence on a single globally dominant set of academic knowledge practices are evident. Nonetheless, many higher education institutions in developing nations struggle to achieve international presence unless they uncritically adopt these dominant practices, even where they recognise the need to use and promote local knowledge systems. We explore these dynamics in postcolonial Papua New Guinea, through an assessment of the intentions for internationalisation of the six PNG universities and barriers to agency. Our approach recognises the dialectical relationship between 'internationalisation' and 'indigenisation'. We suggest that a pervasive but narrow view of indigenisation, emphasising the localisation of university staff, has hampered other forms of both indigenisation and internationalisation, producing more stasis than synthesis within PNG's universities. Effective international agency by PNG universities, and their partners, requires more critical and continuous discourse between the international and the indigenous.
ISSN:1360-080X
1469-9508
DOI:10.1080/1360080X.2018.1529116