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- Title: Internationalisation: Australian Librarians and Expanding Roles in Higher Education.
- Author : Australian Academic & Research Libraries
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 247 KB
Description
To understand the need for internationalisation in higher education, there must be an acknowledgement that the pressures of globalisation are transforming national higher education systems to become effective in international education markets. The fastest changes have been accomplished by governments that have centralised control of their educational systems. Australia was selected for study because its government has chosen to radically change its system of higher education to make it competitive in the global market. Beginning in 1987, government directives began mandating changes that have transformed the entire educational landscape from a two-tiered system to a single tier of entrepreneurial universities. Much has been written about the change process in Australia for academics, administrators, and institutions. (1) Less research on how librarians have adapted to these changes has been carried out. This research, therefore, was designed to study academic librarians in Australia in order to determine how the change process has transformed their practice to include internationalisation within the context of the library, the university, and higher education. The definitions below are those applied in this study. They arc listed here because some Australian academic librarians might define these terms differently. * Globalisation in higher education: worldwide political and economic pressures stimulate change in university practice toward corporate structures and entrepreneurial behaviour; the effects are social, cultural and psychological. Globalisation functions as both process and outcome.