Comparative study of internationalization of higher education curricula in Finland, England and China

Subject Areas : Educational Science

fatemeh behjati ¹ , mohammad hosen yarmahmudiyan ² , alireza eraghiah ³

1 - - استادیار دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد اردکان
2 - یارمحمدیان
3 - استادیار دانشگاه آزاداسلامی واحد اسلامشهر

Received: 2012-09-28 Accepted : 2013-04-27 Published : 2012-09-22

Keywords: England, China, Curriculum, Higher Education, internationalization, Finland,

Abstract :

Today, internationalizing higher education is as an effective strategy to meetthe diverseneeds ofglobalsociety. In fact, the most important pillars of international systems of higher education are international curricula.  Internationalization has been carried out in some countries. The present study is an analysis of curricula in three countries. The analysis includes techniques for systematic analysis of literature, regularizing the results of observations, interviews, discussions, documents, compare, and analyze the findings provide a framework for analyzing whole texts. The inductive approach supports the view. Research findings include the strategies, programs, activities for internationalization of higher education curriculum Supervised teaching methods in each country