WEEK 5, SEM 1 2022 UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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Interrogating International Education and questioning a Western ideology By Khanh Tran
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he global spread of Western higher education within the past few decades has been one of the Englishspeaking-world’s greatest cultural successes. However, this success is founded upon cultivating generations of international students, whether taught overseas or back home, who contemplate a diet of primarily AngloAmerican history, ideology and arguably,
experience. A critical interrogation of this phenomenon through the perspectives of its recipients is thus timely in order to examine its colonial underpinnings and envision a better model of international education.
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NEWS, CULTURE & ANALYSIS
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t was a typical Sunday morning for the suburb of Mona Vale. Those near and far were congregating at the local cemetery, reciting prayers, laying down flowers, holding one another in warmth – but Cyrus wasn’t here for the usual procedures. He was not privileged enough to be held in an embrace this weekend.
Danny Yazdani writes- p. 16
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