The Contours of Internationalization in Kenya’s Universities: The Challenges of Quality and Relevance

Ishmael I. Munene

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-93865-9_13

The Contours of Internationalization in Kenya’s Universities: The Challenges of Quality and Relevance

Ishmael I. Munene

Educational Leadership

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In this chapter, I explore internationalization of higher education in Kenya paying close attention to the context in which it has been framed from the colonial era to the contemporary period. In the analysis, I demonstrate the manifest tension between the desire by universities to espouse global values and generate revenue as measures of success versus the need for the institutions to demonstrate local relevance through the infusion of African epistemologies even as they clamor for global ranking through internationalization. The analysis begins with the framing of higher education internationalization followed by the analysis of internationalization in the colonial, immediate post-independence, and the contemporary periods.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Reimagining Mobility in Higher Education
Subtitle of host publication	For the Future Generations of International Students
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	179-194
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030938659
ISBN (Print)	9783030938642
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93865-9_13
State	Published - Jan 1 2022

Keywords

African indigenous knowledge
Colonial university
Developmental university
Neoliberal university
Western epistemology

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General Social Sciences

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