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The publication “Higher Education – reflections and practices from Brazil and Australia,” available for free download in Portuguese, Spanish, and English, marked the delivery to the community of another fruit of collaboration between Ciebraus and the Australian Embassy in Brazil (links below).
The book is a collection of articles on relevant topics for the effective internationalization of higher education. The work aims to support teachers, course coordinators, managers of higher education institutions, and decision-makers in public policies in their daily work.
The publication presents, with texts by Brazilian and Australian experts, perspectives for the advancement of internationalization in Latin America. It shows how this process can benefit the region beyond the university walls by incorporating an international and intercultural dimension to Higher Education.
The development of collaborative networks, facilitated and cheapened by digital technologies, strengthened during the pandemic, allows for expanding the scientific and technological capacity of countries, in connection with local contexts, making universities vectors of practices and essential knowledge for the sustainable development of their communities of origin.
Topics covered
The articles analyze common problems between Brazil and Australia, as well as their causes, possible solutions, and challenges ahead. In the first section, it deals with teaching-learning methodologies and how to incorporate curriculum internationalization practices, shifting the focus of the debate from student and academic mobility to actions with greater democratization potential.
The effort to internationalize the curriculum also brings education closer to debates about “Industry 4.0,” highlighting issues related to “Education 4.0.” The publication shows pathways for the evolution of education and its professionals in their methodological approaches, in response to challenges brought by new technologies, new formats in the world of work, as well as society’s expectations for social well-being and sustainability.
The second section discusses institutional policies and good management practices, focusing on the debate on quality assessment in HEIs. In it, the book explores planning and networking practices with examples of institutions seeking to become global benchmarks. It also highlights institutional plans of internationalization and their centrality for networked action in internationalization, addressing successful cases of horizontal cooperation between the two countries.
In the last section, the book addresses the role of the State in regulating quality in Higher Education, addressing the adoption of multidimensional evaluation criteria, taking advantage of the reflection moment in Brazil on the regulatory system. It also considers the issue of diploma and certificate recognition by the job market in various countries as a fundamental part of regulation linked to internationalization.