Cut and paste pedagogy?: Academic mobility, teaching practices and the circulation of knowledge

Release time:2023-04-13

Impact Factor:3.901

Journal:Geoforum

Key Words:（SSCI：Q1区，JCI：Q1区——地理研究大类主流顶尖期刊）

Abstract:Drawing on material from qualitative research with Chinese academics in a UK university and British academics in the Chinese branch campus of that university, this paper places pedagogy at the centre of geographical debates about mobility and the internationalisation of higher education. In particular, it moves beyond the usual focus on the mobility of pedagogy in schools or the teaching of international students in higher education to consider how pedagogic practices are embodied in mobile academic staff, within particular classroom and wider institutional environments. These individuals bring their prior experience of teaching and institutional cultures to a new environment where they come up against approaches and pedagogic practices which may clash with their beliefs about good teaching. This pedagogic dissonance may create feelings of frustration or insecurity, but may also provide opportunities for creativity and self-reflection. The paper focuses on three aspects of pedagogic practice: classroom interactions, language and assessment. The focus on the embodied nature of pedagogic practice ex- tends geographical debates around academic mobility, hierarchies of knowledge, and the internationalisation of higher education.

First Author:Tianfeng Liu

Indexed by:Journal paper

Correspondence Author:Katie Willis

Document Code:2

Volume:119

Page Number:11-20

Translation or Not:no

Date of Publication:2021-01-01

Included Journals:SSCI