TY - JOUR
T1 - Student empowerment for internationalisation at a distance
T2 - enacting the students as partners approach in virtual mobility
AU - Breaden, Jeremy
AU - Do, Thu
AU - Moreira dos Anjos-Santos, Lucas
AU - Normand-Marconnet, Nadine
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge the contribution of our colleagues in the broader action research project from which this article emerges: Iori Hamada, Shimako Iwasaki, Howard Manns, and Lola Sundin.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The popularisation of virtual mobility offers opportunities to reconsider power imbalances among different actors in higher education and to affirm the centrality of student agency and diversity. This article explores possibilities for applying the Students as Partners (SaP) approach to virtual mobility in order to empower students and foster reciprocal and ethical interactions. Drawing on interviews with students involved in an action research project, the article highlights the roles and perspectives of students in formulating authentic intercultural exchange experiences online. The findings suggest that application of the SaP framework reorganises students’ agentic capacities and allows them to flourish in a way which, in turn, shifts the power balance in international learning and contributes to the ongoing re-configuration of approaches to internationalisation beyond the educator/student binary.
AB - The popularisation of virtual mobility offers opportunities to reconsider power imbalances among different actors in higher education and to affirm the centrality of student agency and diversity. This article explores possibilities for applying the Students as Partners (SaP) approach to virtual mobility in order to empower students and foster reciprocal and ethical interactions. Drawing on interviews with students involved in an action research project, the article highlights the roles and perspectives of students in formulating authentic intercultural exchange experiences online. The findings suggest that application of the SaP framework reorganises students’ agentic capacities and allows them to flourish in a way which, in turn, shifts the power balance in international learning and contributes to the ongoing re-configuration of approaches to internationalisation beyond the educator/student binary.
KW - Higher education
KW - internationalisation at a distance
KW - online intercultural exchange
KW - students as partners
KW - virtual mobility
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U2 - 10.1080/07294360.2023.2193728
DO - 10.1080/07294360.2023.2193728
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85163189514
SN - 0729-4360
VL - 42
SP - 1182
EP - 1196
JO - Higher Education Research & Development
JF - Higher Education Research & Development
IS - 5
ER -