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About CGS
Events
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Friday, March 4th, 2005 3:00pm
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336 Lincoln Hall
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Description:
Over the past decade, the number of students studying for higher education has grown rapidly, to around two million. Based on an interview-based research project, this paper examines how international student identities and cultural affiliations are transformed by their experiences in Australia; the challenges they confront upon graduation in reinserting themselves in to their own national communities; and the ways in which they seek to use their education to build their social lives and professional careers. The paper shows how the students develop, over the course of their higher education abroad, a range of cosmopolitan sensibilities that are systematically contradictory, concerned more with their strategic positioning within the global labor market than with building a moral sense of global solidarity.
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Full-Text of Paper (pdf)
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Speakers:
Fazal Rizvi, Education, UIUC
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Biography:
Fazal Rizvi has been a Professor in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois since 2001, having previously held academic and administrative appointments at a number of universities in Australia, including as Pro Vice Chancellor (International) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and as the founding Director of the Monash Center for Research in International Education. From 1993 to 2000, Dr Rizvi edited Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, and in 1996 was the President of the Australian Association for Research in Education. His recent books include Globalization, the OECD and Education Policy Making (Pergamon 2001), Education Policy and the Politics of Change (Routledge 1996), Disability and the Dilemmas of Justice and Education (Open UP 1996) and Culture, Difference and the Arts (Allen and Unwin 1994). He is currently researching issues of identity, culture and transnational education.
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Co-Sponsors:
The Departments of Sociology, Geography, Urban and Regional Planning, and the Center for Global Studies
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