Inclusion, Epistemic Democracy and International Students: The Teaching Excellence Framework and Education Policy

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This book examines the Teaching Excellence Framework, and how this and various other educational policies create conditions for the exclusion of cross-border learners. As universities become increasingly globalised and seek to recruit international students, this volume explores how the TEF can shape attitudes towards international students in UK universities, with particular regard to how current metrics may cause damage not only to the students but the universities that receive them. However, the author examines how the TEF and its equivalent could in fact foster and sustain the realisation of international students as democratic equals in university classrooms. Divided into three parts, this book begins to theorise the philosophical basis for a TEF ranking that could create an alternative system – in doing so, helping home students access benefits arising from internationalisation. This pioneering book is a call to action for broader institutional epistemic justice, and will appeal to students and scholars of international students, the TEF and teaching excellence policies more generally. Front Matter ....Pages i-xliii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Policy as Power (Aneta Hayes)....Pages 3-27 Policy Representations of International Students in the UK (Aneta Hayes)....Pages 29-45 Front Matter ....Pages 47-47 Conditionality as a Veiled Continuation of Coloniality vs. Epistemic Democracy (Aneta Hayes)....Pages 49-74 Pedagogy as a Political Act Towards Epistemic Democracy—The Type of Understanding of Teaching Excellence the TEF Can Shape? (Aneta Hayes)....Pages 75-103 Opportunities the TEF Can Offer (Aneta Hayes)....Pages 105-128 Front Matter ....Pages 129-129 Suitable Data (Aneta Hayes)....Pages 131-153 Case Study (Aneta Hayes)....Pages 155-176 Concluding Remarks (Aneta Hayes)....Pages 177-181 Back Matter ....Pages 183-187