Sustainable academic development: an integrative approach to internationalisation and career headway in the higher education

Nawaz, Tasawar

doi:10.1504/ijhes.2017.090211

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“…The concept of the sustainable university relates to various topics, e.g., interactive learning environs [26]; academic production, research teams and marketing [31]; a multiinstitutional approach [32]; an integrative approach to internationalization [33]; intensive academic supervision activities [20]; the objective evaluation of research competence [34]; and the embrace of both sustainability and wellbeing [1] etc.…”

Section: Sustainability In Higher Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spirals of Sustainable Academic Motivation, Creativity, and Trust of Higher Education Staff

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Sustainability has to penetrate more and more into higher education. It should not focus only on traditional elements. It should also enter new, but for future improvement, extremely important areas. Based on this premise, creativity and motivation, when additionally interconnected and supported by trust that is provided and achieved, decide on the progress and sustainability of universities. This connection is gaining importance especially from the point of view of building solid foundations and mechanisms that functionally preserve the potential effects of these elements in the future. For this reason and following the nature, importance, and content of sustainable academic motivation (SAM), the paper introduces two new concepts: sustainable academic creativity (SAC) and sustainable academic trust (SAT). For further original contributions, the paper hypothesizes the existence of mutual—spiral—relations of sustainable academic motivation (SAM), sustainable academic creativity (SAC), and sustainable academic trust (SAT). The empirical section tests the validity of this claim in the universities of two countries: the Slovak Republic and Poland. A survey performed on a sample of n=181 pedagogical, scientific, management, and administrative staff in higher education confirms the existence of these spirals. The results indicate the spiral effect of motivation when connected with creativity and trust and show that it is accented by the crucial principles of sustainability (responsibility, novelty, usefulness, progress, etc.). Therefore, the paper’s conclusion contains the explanations for the potential occurrence of three types of sustainably mutual systems and complexes. These are: (a) individual sustainable systems of SAM, SAC, and SAT; (b) group/sectional sustainable systems of SAM, SAC, and SAT; and (c) the global sustainable complex of SAM, SAC, and SAT in the university.

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Internationalisation strategy, faculty response and academic preparedness for transnational teaching

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2018

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Transnational education (TNE), interpreted as the mobility of education programmes and providers between countries, has grown exponentially as a worldwide phenomenon in recent years. Higher education institutions (HEIs) have mainly used such opportunities to internationalise their degrees and programmes, and have paid scant attention on preparing academics to teach cross-culturally. As a result, academics being at the coalface of teaching and learning often feel under-informed, under-supported, underprepared, and under-confident when it comes to cross-cultural teaching, suggesting that universities have largely failed to prepare their academic faculty members to face the challenges of internationalisation. This is particularly important for new and young players such as the Post-92 Universities in the UK.However, such institutions have largely been ignored by the previous research in this area.Reverting the research focus on young HEIs, this paper highlights the importance of preparing faculty staff members to teach cross-culturally via the TNE route. In doing so, the paper adopts Deardorff's intercultural competency process model to develop a framework (focusing on three core elements of knowledge, skills and attitudes) that could help the academic faculty members to prepare for teaching internationally. The paper is based on a detailed analysis of university's internationalisation strategy, policy documents and related reports for the 1999 -2016 period. The initial analysis is further supplemented by 11 interviews with the main stakeholders i.e. academics, educational developers and policy makers. Informed by the best practices, the paper also discusses the implication of intercultural competencies for cross-cultural teaching.

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Sustainable academic development: an integrative approach to internationalisation and career headway in the higher education

Cited by 2 publications

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Spirals of Sustainable Academic Motivation, Creativity, and Trust of Higher Education Staff

Spirals of Sustainable Academic Motivation, Creativity, and Trust of Higher Education Staff

Internationalisation strategy, faculty response and academic preparedness for transnational teaching

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