Internationalization: From Innovation to Tradition
Effectively, this attitude exacerbated the devaluation of internationalization
and the inflation of defensive measures.
Nowadays, with the tendency of becoming advocates rather
than pioneers of internationalization, we are no longer the
spearhead of innovation but, rather, defenders of traditions.
This creates the danger of self-depreciation and defensive
self-perception—holding firmly onto traditional concepts
and acting on them while the world around moves forward.
We—and the authors explicitly add themselves to the group
of “we”—lament about the loss of real mobility and the
commercialization of higher education in general and its
international component in particular. Yet, we lose sight
of innovative developments such as the emergence of the
digital citizen for whom mobility can be at least as virtual
as real