Australian Student Mobility to the Indo-Pacific Through the New Colombo Plan

Impacts, Challenges, and Regional Engagement
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-98199-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education

This book focuses on Australian students’ engagement and learning in the Indo-Pacific through the New Colombo Plan (NCP), the Australian Government’s flagship initiative for student mobility and public diplomacy.

By analysing the experiences, tensions, and both individual and societal impacts of Australian student mobility to the Indo-Pacific, the book responds to the pressing need for more nuanced understandings of the short- and long-term effects of such study-abroad programs. It also discusses critical issues including geopolitics, access and equity, structural imbalances in Global North–South partnerships, and tensions shaped by neoliberal, postcolonial, and consumerist forces in study-abroad contexts. Drawing on a robust theoretical framework and a large-scale, multi-dimensional, and longitudinal research project, the book offers practical recommendations to strengthen study-abroad student engagement and learning in the Indo-Pacific. The research foregrounds diverse perspectives from students, alumni, host communities, academics, mobility professionals and government representatives.

By examining mobility from the Global North to the Global South, this book makes a distinctive contribution to the field of international education, highlighting the intersection of education and public diplomacy through the lens of student mobility. It will be of interest to practitioners and administrators, policy-makers, and researchers in international education, public diplomacy, and intercultural development.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nguyen, Diep Thi Bich

Tran, Ly Thi

Bui, Huyen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungswesen: Organisation und Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Vergleichende und Empirische Bildungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Study-abroad Trends and Australian Students’ Mobility to the Indo-Pacific 2. Key Issues in Study Abroad 3. The Diversity of Australian Students’ Motivations in Study Abroad in the Indo-Pacific 4. Understanding the Diverse Challenges Faced by Australian Students Studying Abroad in the Indo-Pacific 5. Study Abroad in the Indo-Pacific: Student Learning and Community Impacts from the Perspectives of Students, Academics, and Professional Staff from Home and Host Institutions 6. Challenges and Tensions in Study-Abroad Programs for Australian Students in the Indo-Pacific: Insights from Academics, Practitioners and Host Communities 7. Rethinking Outbound Student Mobility to the Indo-Pacific: Pathways, Policy and Practice Implications and Future Directions

Über Autor(innen)

Ly Thi Tran is Professor in the School of Education and Research for Educational Impact (REDI) Centre, Deakin University, Australia.

Huyen Bui is Transnational Education (TNE) Manager for Deakin University, Australia.

Diep Thi Bich Nguyen is Lecturer in the School of Education, Deakin University, Australia.