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PARTNERSHIPS FOR INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDINGINDIA AND THE UNITED STATES
Supriya Baily, Ph.D.
George Mason University AIE Conference, Mumbai. October 2014
Partnerships as a methods of fostering intercultural understanding…Goals for this presentation include addressing:1. Overall responsiveness2. Culture 3. Identity 4. Environment
Fostering institutional responsibility
Some Indian Uses of History on a Rainy Day
1935. Professor of Sanskriton cultural exchange;passing through; lostin Berlin; reducedto a literal, turbaned child,spelling German signs on door, bus, and shop,trying to guess go from stop;desperatefor a way of telling aparta familiar street from a strange,or eastfrom west at nightthe brown dog that barks
from the brown dog that doesn’tmemorising a foreign paradigmof lanterns, landmarks,a gothic lotus on the iron gatesuddenly comes homein English, gesture, and Sanskrit,assimilatingthe swastikaon the neighbour’s armin that roaring bus from a greynowhere to a green.
AK Ramanujan
Conceptual Framework
Centered on the role of higher education and the national context.
Growing institutional commitments to global awareness, global citizenship and global understanding.
Changes in higher education in the west. Growth of market in non-western
contexts. Growing policies around partnerships.
Transformative Higher Education
Consequence
Construction
Connection
Unterhalter, 2010
Methodology
Critical
Stance
Interviews
Policy Document
s
News Analysis
Observations
A sampling of mission statements
A public, comprehensive research university established by the Commonwealth of Virginia in the National Capital Region, we are an innovative and inclusive academic community committed to creating a more just, free, and prosperous world. (GMU)
To provide a liberal; as well as a professional education so that each student acquires a respect for moral values, a sense of their duties as a citizen, a feeling for taste and style, and a better human understanding. All these are required for leadership (IIT Madras)
To Empower Women to Assume Leadership, To Develop Critical Thinkers and Concerned Citizens, To Contribute New Perspectives to the World of Knowledge, To Enhance Access and Inclusivity in Quality Education, To Sustain Democratic Spaces for Creative Explorations, To Provide a Context of Learning that Enhances Professionalism, Humanism and Social Responsibility (Lady Ram College, New Delhi).
Emergent Themes
Goals of HEI speak to
notions of internationa
lization
Functions of globalizatio
n are dominant
Unequal give and
take
Only a small group
benefits
Concluding Thoughts
Funding on both ends for low income students continues to be a concern.
Division between those who are able to tap into and those who cannot appears to be growing.
Pedagogies of consequence, construction and connection.
Future role of technology and engagement?
Does the rhetoric match the needs and whose interests are being served?
