Identifying the Perceptions of Academic Staff on Internationalization in the Higher Education

• Authors: Muhammet Muhsin Umurbek , Murat Taşdan

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of this study is to identify the perceptions of instructors of internationalization in higher education. The sample of this study consists of 325 faculty members working at four different universities. The data were collected using a scale developed by the researchers. According to findings scale points of the female instructors are better than the male instructors in the foreign language and academic sub-scales. It is seen that perception level of the instructors who were stayed in a foreign country for their education are better than the ones who were not in the academic sub-scale. It is also observed that perceptions of instructors who went to a congress or symposium abroad are better than the ones who did not go to a congress and symposium abroad in the foreign language dimension.

Keywords

EN

Globalization; Internationalization in Turkey; Higher Education; Internationalization in Higher Education.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 59
• Pages: 72-84

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Muhammet Muhsin Umurbek

• Atatürk University

author

Murat Taşdan

• Kafkas University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.20.59.1.06

Biblioteka Nauki

1963514