Transnational and Transcultural Positionality in Globalised Higher Education

Catherine Montgomery is Professor of International Higher Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hull, UK. She is a specialist in international and comparative education, with a particular interest in transnational higher education in China, Hong Kong, and Vietnam. Her most recent book is Understanding the international student experience (2010). Her most recent research interests centre on transnational higher education and inequalities in the context of globalised higher education. She is the co-founder of the East Asia Research Collaboration Network, a research network based in Hull which aims to establish research partnerships between East Asia and Northern Europe. She has strong and active links with universities in China, Vietnam and Mexico. She was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2010 on the strength of her work in international education.

• Editorial Introduction: Transnational and transcultural positionality in globalised higher education 1. Examining the discourses of cross-cultural communication in transnational higher education: from imposition to transformation 2. ‘This is Malaysia. You have to follow the custom here’: narratives of the student and academic experience in international higher education in Malaysia 3. ‘I like the people I work with. Maybe I’ll get to meet them in person one day’: teaching and learning practice development with transnational teaching teams 4. Improving learning and teaching in transnational education: can communities of practice help? 5. Across borders and across cultures: Vietnamese students’ positioning of teachers in a university twinning programme 6. The transnational and the individual: a life-history narrative in a Danish university context 7. Exploring the diverse motivations of transnational higher education in China: complexities and contradictions