Transnationally-trained scholars working in global contexts: Knowledge production, identity, epistemology, and career trajectories

Hà, Phan Lê; Kelley, Liam C.; Curaming, Rommel A.

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“…I concur with Kim ( 2021 ) and do not participate in the celebrated and expected victimhood narratives. The discourse of victimhood, if taken for granted, could limit understanding of the dynamic picture of transnational academic mobilities, as I have argued elsewhere (Phan, 2022 , 2023a , 2023b ; Phan et al, 2020 ) and as demonstrated in Khoo and Lin ( 2023 ), Lee ( 2023 ), Nguyen and Chia ( 2023 ), and Yoshimizu ( 2022 ).…”

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Re-opening an Asia-Scar: engaging (troubled) emotions in knowing, knowledge production and scholarly endeavors

Hà

2023

Asia Pacific Educ. Rev.

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In this article, I bring to the center of inquiry the role of emotion in scholarship, knowledge production, and scholarly endeavors. I discuss the ways in which emotion, in varied forms and intensities, shapes how one may respond to particular bodies of knowledge and academic initiatives. In a complex manner, I engage with Kuan-Hsing Chen’s “Asia as Method” (Chen in Asia as Method: towards deimperialization, Duke University Press, Durham, 2010). I take it as an inspiration as well as a source of critique and expansion of ideas to advance scholarly arguments and to shed light on the process through which certain knowledge can be produced and/or restricted by particular emotions. At the same time, I critique varied uncritical endorsements of Asia, Asia as Method, and of ungrounded accusations of Western theory and hegemony. I lean into emotion/affect as a possible means of complicated knowing, productive scholarly writing, and knowledge production. I also emphasize the importance of engaging (with) rigorous and diverse historical knowledge as scholars produce education research. An important part of this article is what I refer to as an Asia scar incident and my reopening of that scar. To put this scar conversation in perspective, via narrative research, I present my recollection of the context leading to the scar as well as my reflection on the incident and how my scholarship has come along. I also request that scholars be open to multiple voices and multiple forms of scholarly participation to enable a more democratic recognition of nuanced knowledge production in transnationalized higher education. I argue that realizing and embracing such a democratic recognition can nurture and enable what I would call justice of voice and justice of participation.

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Re-opening an Asia-Scar: engaging (troubled) emotions in knowing, knowledge production and scholarly endeavors

Hà

2023

Asia Pacific Educ. Rev.

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Higher Education in Vietnam and a New Vision for Internationalization at Home Post COVID-19

Phung

Phan

2021

Vietnam at the Vanguard

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Internationalization at home' (IaH), a term highlighting that the internationalization of higher education involves more than outbound student and staff mobility, first took root in Europe and then spread to higher education systems in North America and Australia. Signifying a move to mainstreaming internationalization within the overall quality of domestic higher education, IaH was once popular but somehow lost momentum. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, where outbound mobility is severely impeded, Vietnam has become home to energetic discussions on IaH. This chapter spotlights the case of IaH in Vietnam's higher education, demonstrating that it implies a whole different constellation of relations. While IaH in Vietnam invokes an existing more or less neocolonial network of relations shaped by mobilizing Western ideas and forms, discourses emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic have opened up opportunities to push the currently dominant configuration into multiple directions. Particularly, this chapter argues that IaH can be in line with place-based internationalization, theorized as a mode of internationalization characterized by commitments related to local/community engagement, student wellbeing, and care. While mobility-driven internationalization produces 'accelerated desire', place-based internationalization, generates 'realistic considerations' and 'intimate relations'. IaH could tap into the resources that have been created through different forms of mobility to enact its place-based mode. Place-based internationalization cannot guarantee success and the good; however, it offers another way of life and hope, and a sense of home that matters.

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Editorial: International educational mobilities and new developments in Asia’s higher education: Putting transformations at the centre of inquiries

Hà

Fry

2021

Research in Comparative and International Education

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Setting the sceneIn recent decades there has been a dramatic growth in the field of international higher education with an explosion of scholarly work on international educational mobilities and international students' experiences. However, much of this work is focused on European and English-speaking western contexts. In actuality, in an article published in 2009 on Asian international students studying in Thailand, one of us already noted little about international students in areas beyond the Western world has been discussed in the published research literature. The assumption that 'the West is the world' . . . appears to have marginalised even the need and importance of doing research into the so-called Other -the Other that the Self has already known and constructed (

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Transnationally-trained scholars working in global contexts: Knowledge production, identity, epistemology, and career trajectories

Cited by 4 publications

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Re-opening an Asia-Scar: engaging (troubled) emotions in knowing, knowledge production and scholarly endeavors

Re-opening an Asia-Scar: engaging (troubled) emotions in knowing, knowledge production and scholarly endeavors

Higher Education in Vietnam and a New Vision for Internationalization at Home Post COVID-19

Editorial: International educational mobilities and new developments in Asia’s higher education: Putting transformations at the centre of inquiries

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