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Grace Karram Stephenson | Internationalization at Canada’s Universities<br />

universities and questions to what extent these have the potential to develop<br />

internationally knowledgeable students or global citizens. Heater’s world<br />

citizenship spectrum will be used to position the various internationalization<br />

strategies found at Canada’s universities. 8<br />

In the second section <strong>of</strong> this paper, the concepts <strong>of</strong> international<br />

knowledge and global citizenship are explored and contrasted. The third<br />

section presents the example <strong>of</strong> study abroad, the findings <strong>of</strong> the recent Study<br />

Abroad Opinion Survey and uses Heater’s spectrum to highlight the<br />

contradictions currently present in that internationalization initiative. The<br />

fourth section <strong>of</strong> the paper examines other general trends <strong>of</strong><br />

internationalization at Canada’s institutions.<br />

The following discussion is not meant to be an exhaustive list <strong>of</strong> all<br />

the internationalization activities occurring in Canada. Since<br />

internationalization strategies and practices are evolving and transforming<br />

rapidly, such a list would quickly be out <strong>of</strong> date. Rather, overarching trends<br />

and relevant individual cases will be examined with the end goal <strong>of</strong> situating<br />

these within the broader picture <strong>of</strong> global citizenship development.<br />

8 Heater, Derek Benjamin. What Is Citizenship? Malden, Mass: Polity, 1999: 117.<br />

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