Review of 'Internationalising higher education: Critical explorations of pedagogy', Peter Ninnes and Meeri Hellsten (Eds.) Hong Kong: Comparative Education Research Centre, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2004. ISBN: 962-8093-37-1

Abstract

The title of this book suggests a huge undertaking, but one that has broad-reaching implications for comparative and international higher education. It contains an eclectic mixture of perspectives and analysis on international higher education developments in the Asia-Pacific region with an emphasis placed on the Australian perspective. The book is not organised to necessarily differentiate the effects of internationalisation processes between pedagogy and policy. Its significance instead rests on the outcomes of various research methodologies employed by individual authors. In many ways, the dynamism of these authors offers new ways of thinking about internationalisation and represents an invitation to learn more about internationalisation processes in terms of regional, cultural, and hermeneutical contexts. How the internationalising phenomenon may have impacted higher education across Australia and the Asia-Pacific has been accomplished in such a way as to allow the reader to focus on areas of special concern. Given the intention to treat both policy and pedagogy, the following comments attempt to highlight significant contributions of the book in these two contexts.