International Education at the Crossroads - Hardcover

by Deborah N. Cohn (Editor), Hilary E. Kahn (Editor), Michael A. McRobbie (Contribution by)

International Education at the Crossroads captures the essence and complexity of international education in an interconnected and globalized world. Written by leading scholars, international educators, and policy makers, the 26 essays in this volume take stock of the unpredictable landscape of international education and demonstrate why international higher education is more essential now than ever before.

Responding to a timely global moment where education and international engagement are being redefined and practiced in new ways, the authors call for a reconsideration of paradigms and critical reflection of the entire field of international education. At the same time, the authors show how international education is an imperative for the future of learning and the world, and also, crucially, that this work cannot be done in a silo.

International Education at the Crossroads offers readers a chance to join in the conversation that is as global as it is meaningful in communities, the lives of learners, and institutions around the world. International education requires that everyone the world over work together to produce new knowledge, to navigate the "crossroads," and to collectively chart the directions in which the field will move into the future.

Author Biography

Hilary E. Kahn is Associate Vice Chancellor for International Affairs and Associate Professor of Anthropology at IUPUI, as well as Indiana University Associate Vice President of International Affairs. She is also an IU Bicentennial Professor, editor for the Framing the Global book series with IU Press, and past president of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA).

Deborah N. Cohn is Provost Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Interim Director of the College Arts and Humanities Institute at Indiana University. She is the author of The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism during the Cold War (2012) and History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction (1999). She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Harry Ransom Center, the Rockefeller Archive Center, and others.