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The Social Practice of International Education: Analysing the Caring Practices of Indian International Students in Australian Universities
- Source :
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Globalisation, Societies and Education . 2024 22(2):264-275. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This article contributes to debates about international student mobility and the globalisation of higher education by attending to the caring practices of Indian international students at Australian universities. Drawing on qualitative material produced with postgraduate students, it examines the practical, economic, emotional and social ways they support each other throughout their educational sojourns. The main argument is that Indian international students develop critical modes of supporting each other that make international study possible. These caring practices highlight the need to move beyond approaches that cast international students as neoliberal subjects or as a vulnerable group in need of intervention. They also unsettle the tendency to cast the higher educational landscape as strictly neoliberal. They highlight instead the importance of notions such as mutuality and reciprocity among the international student cohort, at the same time as they suggest the production of logics in higher education that cannot strictly be defined as neoliberal.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1476-7724 and 1476-7732
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Globalisation, Societies and Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1418335
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2022.2070130