Transculturality in higher education: Supporting students' experiences through praxis. Issue 3 (1st December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Smith, Heidi A.
• Is Part Of: Learning and teaching. Volume 13:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 41
• Page End: 60
• Publication Date: 2020-12-01
• Subjects: critical -- education -- praxis -- transcultural -- higher education -- internationalisation; Social sciences -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Periodicals; 300.711
• DOI: 10.3167/latiss.2020.130304
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1755-2273

Abstract

Abstract: One way in which higher education has responded to globalisation and the emergence of transculturality has been to expand its focus on internationalisation at an unprecedented rate. Traditionally this occurred through international students and their contact with local students. A longitudinal case study into the student experience of transculturality in the Erasmus Mundus Transcultural European Outdoor Studies Masters programme found transcultural self-growth and transcultural capabilities of resilience, intelligence and the ability to work through fatigue to be central to their experience. Using Kemmis and Smith's (2008a) themes related to praxis (doing, morally committed action, reflexivity, connection, concreteness and a process of becoming) this theoretical article explores the place of critical transcultural pedagogical praxis in supporting transcultural learning experiences of higher education students.