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‘Internationalization at home’ (IaH), a term highlighting that the internationalization of higher education involves more than outbound student and staff mobility, first took root in Europe and then spread to higher education systems in North America and Australia. Signifying a move to mainstreaming internationalization within the overall quality of domestic higher education, IaH was once popular but somehow lost momentum. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, where outbound mobility is severely impeded, Vietnam has become home to energetic discussions on IaH. This chapter spotlights the case of IaH in Vietnam’s higher education, demonstrating that it implies a whole different constellation of relations. While IaH in Vietnam invokes an existing more or less neocolonial network of relations shaped by mobilizing Western ideas and forms, discourses emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic have opened up opportunities to push the currently dominant configuration into multiple directions. Particularly, this chapter argues that IaH can be in line with place-based internationalization, theorized as a mode of internationalization characterized by commitments related to local/community engagement, student wellbeing, and care. While mobility-driven internationalization produces ‘accelerated desire’, place-based internationalization, generates ‘realistic considerations’ and ‘intimate relations’. IaH could tap into the resources that have been created through different forms of mobility to enact its place-based mode. Place-based internationalization cannot guarantee success and the good; however, it offers another way of life and hope, and a sense of home that matters.
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Standard programs are regular programs; the term ‘standard’ evokes adherence to principles of quality assurance.
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Phùng, T., Le Ha, P. (2021). Higher Education in Vietnam and a New Vision for Internationalization at Home Post COVID-19. In: Gillen, J., Kelley, L.C., Le Ha, P. (eds) Vietnam at the Vanguard. Asia in Transition, vol 15. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5055-0_13
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