Endogenous Complexity and Exogenous Interdependency: Internationalization and Globalization of Higher Education

Abstract

In contemporary globalization era, knowledge is always considered as a commodity worldwide in a knowledge-based economy. The debate on globalization and internationalization of higher education in recent decades involves in identifying the rationale and purpose of higher education in a global context. Both internationalization and globalization are complex phenomena with overlap and intertwined with each other (Scott 2006). In this chapter, the complexity and interdependency are the major attributes of globalization and internationalization of higher education. Indeed, it is complicated and multi-faced to distinguish between the ideas of the globalization and internationalization of higher education. Hence, this chapter examines the distinctions and similarities of globalization and internationalization of higher education from the attributes of complexity and interdependency.