Higher education, english, and the idea of ‘the west’ globalizing and encountering a global south regional university, discourse studies in the cultural politics of education 1

3/9/2018 Higher education, English, and the idea of ‘the West’: globalizing and encountering a global south regional university: Discourse: Studies in t…  Log in  |  Register   Journal Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education  Latest Articles 0 Views CrossRef citations Altmetric Higher education, English, and the idea of ‘the West’: globalizing and encountering a global south regional university Original Articles Phan Le Ha  Published online: 09 Mar 2018  Download citation  Full Article  https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2018.1448704  Figures & data  Reprints & Permissions  References  Citations  Metrics  PDF ABSTRACT This article is about ‘global south’ actors and global south–global south interactions in the context of the internationalization of higher education (IHE), with a focus on a Vietnamese university and the mobilities of students moving through this educational space It discusses in what ways this university sees its multi-layered association with the Philippines as a bridge, a catalyst that could ful ll its aspirations for internationalization which is largely attached to English, ‘the West’, the idea of ‘the West’, and becoming global The article shows how the participation in and consumption of such aspirations/desires by new IHE players could reproduce and widen social inequalities between and within ‘global south’ actors but also bring https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01596306.2018.1448704 1/30