CALL FOR PAPERS: A SPECIAL ISSUE ON INTERNATIONALISATION TO BE PUBLISHED IN JULY 2009
Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences is calling for papers on the broad field of internationalisation.
Universities throughout the world have involvement with international provision in different forms. Terms such as provider or receiver certainly do not capture important parts of international experience for learning and teaching. National provisions include a range of strategies, particularly in the wake of WTO requirements. The experience of students and staff in different countries, including those with little opportunity to participate, invites scrutiny and elaboration from the social science disciplines.
Also under consideration are the visions of anthropology, criminology, politics and sociology in and outside the UK as disciplines with international scope for teaching and learning. Each of these disciplines stand in relation to other disciplinary endeavours in, for instance, cultural studies, human and social geography and social history. We wish to bring this broad and often contrasting disciplinary meeting place to the study of learning and teaching in and through internationalisation.
This issue of ELiSS is designed to achieve the following:
To encourage a number of academic papers including commissioned papers on different aspects of internationalisation and learning and teaching
To emphasise effective project activity and report including provision of commentary on projects
To use web interviews with leading figures from journalism, academia, government and non-governmental organisations
We invite academic papers (6,000-7,000 words) that:
- review existing debates and contribute to competing meanings of internationalisation as they are currently available
- ask in what ways teaching and learning practices are changing/'have' to change to reflect an international student body in different contexts
- explore the experience of academics in a range of countries and their analysis of their student experiences in the current global environment
- report on or extend the theorisation of internationalism in learning and teaching
- ask what kind of internationalising curriculum/curricula, if any, should be developed. What notions of students as global citizens would each one offer?
We invite extended project reports (4,000-5,000 words) that:
- demonstrate course and institutional initiatives located within relevant literatures with outlines of work conducted, lessons learned, detailed considerations of how others can benefit from this project
- use participant voices to elaborate one or more of the following: higher education classroom learning experiences, policy-making by NGOs, INGOs, national bodies in ways that pose questions for listeners and seek comment and reply.
- show how research into an aspect of internationalisation has/is being used to support learning and teaching initiatives in either a course/institution/discipline context
- explore the experiences of internationalism in its many varieties
A template for project reports will be available from the editors.
In addition to the above we invite video or audio submissions including recorded web conversations that report on aspects of international community activity and its impact for higher education.
Organisation of the Special Issue
We wish to stimulate debate but build on a range of practices. Consequently this issue of ELiSS will contain keynote papers and projects from invited academics in different parts of the world. We will publish responses to papers and projects and a further selection of project reports in a subsequent special issue in January 2010.
This open invitation is likely to generate interest. We encourage potential contributors to contact either of the special issue editors (Malcolm Todd - m.j.todd@shu.ac.uk and Anthony Rosie - A.J.Rosie@shu.ac.uk) with outline ideas.
Deadline for submission of papers is April 30th 2009.