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Academic mobility: a non-Machiavellian means to global citizenship

dc.contributor.authorAlbuquerque, Alexandra
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-27T10:36:36Z
dc.date.available2013-11-27T10:36:36Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractAlthough Mobility is a trendy and an important keyword in education matters, it has been a knowledge tool since the beginning of times, namely the Classical Antiquity, when students were moving from place to place following the masters. Over the time, different types of academic mobility can be found and this tool has been taken both by the education and business sector as almost a compulsory process since the world has gone global. Mobility is, of course, not an end but a means. And as far as academic mobility is concerned it is above all a means to get knowledge, being it theoretical or practical. But why does it still make sense to move from one place to another to get knowledge if never as before we have heaps of information and experiences available around us, either through personal contacts, in books, journals, newspapers or online? With this paper we intend to discuss the purpose of international mobility in the global world of the 21st century as a means to the development of world citizens able to live, work and learn in different and unfamiliar contexts. Based on our own experience as International Coordinator in a Higher Education Institution (HEI) over the last 8 years, on the latest research on academic mobility and still on studies on employability we will show how and why academic mobility can develop skills either in students or in other academic staff that are hardly possible to build in a classroom, or in a non-mobile academic or professional experience and that are highly valued by employers and society in general.por
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/2974
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.peerreviewedyespor
dc.publisherInstituto Politécnico do Porto. Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Portopor
dc.subjectEmployabilitypor
dc.subjectGlobal citizenshippor
dc.subjectAcademic mobilitypor
dc.titleAcademic mobility: a non-Machiavellian means to global citizenshippor
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oaire.citation.titleSPACE AGM and Conferencepor
person.familyNameAlbuquerque
person.givenNameAlexandra
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person.identifier.ciencia-idBA19-9BC5-825A
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-9234-5174
person.identifier.ridO-2689-2015
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