The Drive to Internationalize: Perceptions and Motivations of Israeli College Directors

Autor/inn/en	Yemini, Miri; Holzmann, Vered; de Wit, Hans; Sadeh, Efrat; Stavans, Anat; Fadila, Dalia
Titel	The Drive to Internationalize: Perceptions and Motivations of Israeli College Directors
Quelle	In: Higher Education Policy, 28 (2015) 3, S.259-276 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0952-8733
DOI	10.1057/hep.2014.9
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Educational Policy; Administrator Characteristics; Academic Freedom; International Education; Qualitative Research; Administrator Attitudes; Institutional Characteristics; Educational Strategies; Institutional Advancement; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Akademische Freiheit; Internationale Erziehung; Qualitative Forschung; Lehrstrategie; nicht übertragen
Abstract	Given the relatively high degree of academic freedom granted to institutions in Israel in conjunction with the lack of governmental policy on internationalization, directors of higher education institutions comprise key agents in the institutional internationalization process that is taking place in Israeli higher education. In this study, we took a qualitative approach to explore the views and attitudes of seven college directors in Israel. We show that motivation for internationalization is a multifaceted phenomenon influenced by the college directors' personal characteristics as well as by the colleges' contextual factors. Moreover, it seems that second-tier colleges use internationalization to promote themselves towards the status of first-tier research universities. The study provides a first insight into the perceptions and motivations of Israeli educational institutions' leaders regarding the development of institutional-level internationalization strategies. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01