Internationalization of the curriculum through telecollaboration in professional and technological educationABSTRACT
Considering that the internationalization of educational institutions is materialized through the curriculum (Belli et al., 2018; Knight, 2004), this qualitative approach study (Patton, 2002) focuses on the context of professional and technological education (PTE) (Ramos, 2008, 2010). It aims to analyze how curriculum internationalization (CI) has been enabled at Instituto Federal Catarinense (IFC) through telecollaboration, as such telecollaboration acts as a facilitator of the contact between geographically distant students (O’Dowd, 2021; Schaefer & Heemann, 2021). The data were collected through a participant’s experience report and an interview. The study revealed that telecollaboration has provided, at IFC, a dialogue between people from different countries and cultures, fostering CI in the context of PTE. We maintain that telecollaboration can prepare PTE students for respectful and successful interactions with people from other cultural contexts in both personal and work settings.
Keywords: curriculum internationalization; professional and technological education; telecollaboration; integral education