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Higher Education Policy in Global Perspective

Orientalism: Alive and Well? The Contradictions and Paradoxes Surrounding Canadian Policy Discourse on International Student Mobility

  • Roopa Trilokekar, Education, York University
    Coach House, Green College, UBC
    Wednesday, March 30, 5-6:30 pm
    in the series
    Higher Education Policy in Global Perspective
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  • Both AUCC’s recent survey (2014) and the federal government’s latest international education strategy (2014) report that student mobility is one of Canada’s most high profile policy issues. However, in analyzing policy discourses on inward and outward student mobility and its value to Canada’s academic, socio-cultural and economic fabric, several troubling paradoxes become apparent. Is internationalization yet another manifestation of Orientalism where “East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet?”
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March 30, 2016
10:00 am to 11:30 am

Piano Lounge

6201 Cecil Green Park Road

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Roopa Trilokekar, Education, York University
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