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Internationalization of Higher Education, Africa

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Internationalization is “the process of integrating the international, intercultural or global dimension in the purpose, function and delivery of post secondary education” Knight (2008: p x–xi), a definition of internationalization that is widely accepted.

Internationalization finds expression through travel abroad by students, faculty engaged in collaborative research and publishing, signing of memoranda of understanding between foreign institutions, when satellite campuses or franchise private providers are established across borders, and when countries work towards a common frame of reference such as harmonizing credentials, or attract foreign faculty to their campus (Knight and Teferrar 2008). Internationalization can take place either at home and consists of incorporating intercultural and international dimensions into the curriculum, teaching, research, and extracurricular activities. It assists students develop international and intercultural skills without ever...

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  1. Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Chika Sehoole

  2. African Network for Internationalization of Education (ANIE), Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya

    James Jowi

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  1. CIPES - Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies and Faculty of Economics - U., Porto, Portugal

    Pedro Nuno Teixeira

  2. Department of Education, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

    Jung Cheol Shin

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  1. Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Hans De Wit

  2. Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA

    Laura Rumbley

  3. Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Lombardy, Italy

    Fiona Hunter

  4. Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

    Lisa Unangst

  5. Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

    Edward Choi

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Sehoole, C., Jowi, J. (2020). Internationalization of Higher Education, Africa. In: Teixeira, P.N., Shin, J.C. (eds) The International Encyclopedia of Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8905-9_230

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