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EDPB6013: Issues in International Education

2025 unit information

Focussed investigation of major topics in international education, at multiple levels. Developments in key international approaches and issues; contrasting interpretations and contemporary developments in education at the global scale and internationally.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Arts and Social Sciences

Study level Postgraduate
Academic unit Education
Credit points 6
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None
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None
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. gain an understanding of the historical development of internationalisation of education, as well as some competing rationales for its development
  • LO2. engage in critical understanding of major interpretive approaches to internationalisation, with minor recapitulation of arguments about globalization
  • LO3. understand internationalisation of education in specific contexts, as well as an understand more general trends
  • LO4. undertake critical study of the relationship between effects of globalization on education, and what relationship there is, if any, between this and the development of internationalisation in education
  • LO5. apply skills and insights developed in an independently designed investigation

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Semester 2 2024
Online Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 2 2025
Online Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 1 2020
Online Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2021
Online Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2022
Online Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2023
Online Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney

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