International Pathfinders: the biographical dimensions of internationalisation of higher education.

• Authors: Marta Eichsteller

Title variants

PL

Międzynarodowi tropiciele: biograficzne wymiary umiędzynarodowienia edukacji uniwersyteckiej.

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

International Pathfinders is a systematic study of the biographical significance of educational mobility within a European context. It builds upon autobiographical narrative material gathered through the EuroIdentities project. The study aims to combine the elements of social theory and the most recent research in the area of internationalisation of higher education with biographical material in order to understand and push the academic debate even further. This article employs a three-stage sequence of educational mobility – leaving home, the experience itself, and the return – as a core structure for discussing and presenting the cases. Within that framework, issues such as influence of cultural and symbolic capitals and specific characteristics of the educational structures of opportunities are explored. Biographical consequences of educational mobility take the form of an international frame of reference, allowing international students to navigate in complex international relations, and can be considered the source of social status both in an international and a national context.

PL

Artykuł ten jest szkicem biograficznych wymiarów internacjonalizacji kształcenia na poziomie wyższym w kontekście europejskim. Materiały autobiograficzne wykorzystane w artykule pochodzą ze zbioru projektu ‘EuroIdentities’. Szkic ma na celu systematyczną analizę materiału empirycznego w świetle istniejących teorii socjologicznych i najnowszych badań. Artykuł rozpatruje mobilność edukacyjną z punku widzenia jej sekwencyjnych stadiów – wyjazd, pobyt i powrót – co daje możliwość systematyzacji i prezentacji materiału biograficznego. W ramach tego trzy-stopniowego procesu szkic rozpatruje kwestie kapitałów kulturowego i symbolicznego oraz zróżnicowanej możliwości realizacji planów działania z punktu widzenia trzech odmian jej instytucjonalnego uwzorowania. Biograficzne konsekwencje mobilności edukacyjnej są rozpatrywane w ramach obecności ‘międzynarodowego układu odniesienia’, który pomaga studentom zorientować się w skomplikowanej międzynarodowej rzeczywistości i może być rozpatrywany jako źródło statusu społecznego na poziomie zarówno narodowym jak i międzynarodowym.

Keywords

EN

educational mobility; international framework of reference; autobiographical narrative research; internationalisation of higher education.

PL

mobilność edukacyjna; międzynarodowy schemat odniesienia; badania autobiograficzne; internacjonalizacja szkolnictwa wyższego

• Publisher: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe, Stowarzyszenie
• Journal: Przegląd Socjologiczny
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 93-113

Dates

published

2011

Contributors

author

Marta Eichsteller

• Bangor University, Wales, UK

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ISSN

0033-2356