Progress in Human Geography
Volume 39, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 681-701

Conceptualizing international education: From international student to international study (Article)

Madge C.* , Raghuram P. , Noxolo P.
  • a University of Leicester, United Kingdom
  • b The Open University, United Kingdom
  • c The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Abstract

In a rapidly changing transnational eduscape, it is timely to consider how best to conceptualize international education. Here we argue for a conceptual relocation from international student to international study as a means to bridge the diverse literatures on international education. International study also enables recognition of the multiple contributions (and resistances) of international students as agents of knowledge formation; it facilitates consideration of the mobility of students in terms of circulations of knowledge; and it is a means to acknowledge the complex spatialities of international education, in which students and educators are emotionally and politically networked together through knowledge contributions. © 2014, © The Author(s) 2014.

Author Keywords

emotions international study mobile agents geographies of international education circulations of knowledge

Index Keywords

education mobility globalization knowledge student
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84946402012&doi=10.1177%2f0309132514526442&partnerID=40&md5=3d89ac79b2fded5eb13862eb101323c6
DOI: 10.1177/0309132514526442
ISSN: 03091325
Cited by: 69
Original Language: English