As Southeast Asia becomes an increasingly popular destination for international students, important questions arise concerning the employability of graduates from this region. This comment article advocates for a comprehensive examination of how effectively Southeast Asian universities equip their international students to navigate both global and…

This special issue calls us to examine the dictatorship of capital. The rule of capital in the labor/capital relation has always been a form of dictatorship. Therefore, we need to consider the particularities of this relation as they manifest today. In recent decades, the nature of the labor/capital relation, or capitalism, has generally been…

Higher education institutions should prepare students to address global health challenges in an increasingly interconnected world. This study investigates how a virtual exchange project between North-West University in South Africa and Georgia State University in the United States of America are developing global citizenship among undergraduate…

"In Pursuit of a Lifelong Learning Society" explores the policy discourses of lifelong learning articulated by three major international organisations -- UNESCO, OECD, and the EU. Through comparative analysis, Moosung Lee explores how these organizations have shaped lifelong learning policies through their ideologies and interactions,…

Background/purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the content of the revised Arabic language textbooks in Jordan for the year 2024/2025 to uncover the included concepts of global citizenship, along with their proportions. Materials/Methods: The next two parts of this study, using an analysis tool, arrived at its six dimensions, adopting…

This book explores the rapidly expanding world of cross-border education. As international student numbers have surged from 1.6 million in 2000 to over 6.4 million in 2022, transnational education (TNE) has become a transformative force in global higher education. This volume delves into how universities cross borders to deliver education,…

African music educators have been on a journey of indigenization, closing the gap between community arts experiences and school arts. However, although African music educators have advocated for indigenizing the musical arts curriculum, entanglements in western colonial art education models hinder designing a thoughtful indigenous curriculum and…

Background: The ability of the South African citizenry to overcome a myriad of challenges (which include the triple challenges of inequality, poverty and unemployment) can be called into question. This alleged inability could, in part at least, be linked to the role of higher education, which is at a vantage point of equipping the citizenry with…

Based on a scoping review of anglophone, peer-reviewed studies published in the period 1990-2018, we analyze and discuss the research literature on teachers, teaching, and globalization. Distinguishing between three categories of globalization theories, centered on: (1) culture; (2) political economy; and (3) flows and systems, we trace the uses…

The International Association of Universities (IAU) is the only inclusive global university association, its membership barriers are low, yet few universities are members despite considerable benefits. What determines membership in this long-standing international university alliance? Reviewing recent trends toward a more networked, stratified and…

This study examines the content of introductory financial accounting (IFA) textbooks to answer the questions: (1) do the textbooks inculcate global mindsets? (2) How and the extent to which the textbooks reflect global mindsets? We analyzed the textbooks by attentively read the texts, followed by an in-depth discussion among the researchers to…

Background: The canonical view of expert legitimacy in policymaking links it to objectivity and autonomy from politics. Yet, in practice such 'epistemic gains' stemming from the separation of facts and values are problematic, as expert advice inherently combines political and technical considerations. Aims and objectives: This article addresses…

John Dewey acknowledges that nationalism contributed not only to the establishment of the modern nation of the United States and its national unity, but also to the independence of other colonized countries in the twentieth century. At the same time, he is also concerned with the detrimental effects of nationalism on individual agency and…

The paper has explored the influence of age/year of study, high school education, additional music education, engaging in music in leisure time and frequency of going to the theatre and classical music concerts on students' world music preferences, and the relationship between world music preferences and familiarity of music. The research was…

This study explored the experience of faculty at a U.S. university in the internationalization of curriculum to foster student glocal competence. The study focused how faculty use the curriculum to organize a coherent classroom to help the students study connectively irrespective of their culture to encourage social interactions within a…