Navigating “triple disruptions”: insights into South–South higher education interactions
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Researchers from China have examined South–South higher education interactions amid “triple disruptions,” applying Southern epistemologies and a typology of inward- and outward-oriented higher internationalization. Through analyzing a range of selected documents, their work reveals that South–South higher education interactions occur through a mix of approaches with a preference for inward-oriented expansion diffusion. The notion of new types of colonialism serves as a wake-up call for Southern countries’ outward-oriented internationalization for soft power enhancement.
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