A recorded keynote presentation from Dr Kalyani Unkule (O.P. Jindal Global University) for the 2023 Research with International Students Conference, entitled "Aren't all students international?"
(11 December 2023, The University of Manchester)
Aren't all students international?
This presentation speculates on the implications of delinking travel from being an international student. I argue that, in the first instance, this would amount to an acknowledgement of eco-planetary concerns stemming from unrestrained long-distance mobility. Next, I explore how this definitional rejig reveals the need for all students - including those hitherto labelled “domestic” - to learn about, from, and with diverse worldviews. At the institutional level, it shifts focus
away from the number of foreign passport holders enrolled to meaningful diversity in curriculum, classroom and campus practices. “Excellence” has come to be unquestioningly associated with claims of going “international” or “global”. The proposed conceptual move re-situates the quest for excellence at other levels - local, sub-national, bioregional, continental among them. In the process, indigeneity, rather than ethnocentrism, form the foundations for receiving other ways of being and knowing. The trans-historical imagination is then able to entertain the idea of civilisation, not in terms of competition and a quest for dominance, but as an array of pathways to attain self-mastery. I suggest that the field of research with international students has advanced sufficiently for us to now confidently problematise some of our own assumptions as well as contributing meaningfully to allied causes such as intercultural dialogue and learning.
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