Philippine TEIs’ Internationalization Practice and Experience: Elucidating Perspectives, Challenges and Opportunities

Abstract

Internationalization in teacher education is influenced by both global and local contexts across diverse settings in addressing 21^st century teacher education, taken as a challenge posed among teacher education institutions (TEIs) in the country. As such, this study endeavored to navigate on internationalization practice and experience of Philippine TEIs, thereby, elucidate their perspectives, challenges and opportunities. Moreover, it determined TEIs’ readiness on internationalization process along it array of parameters. It utilized quantitative descriptive method using survey questionnaire among administrators and faculty members from participating TEIs. The findings indicated stakeholders’ moderate understanding on internationalization that led to their non-readiness at the time of this survey, although they were still hoping and looking forward to possibilities in the future. Such results were triggered by some identified challenges that most institutions were currently facing, specifically those that concerned financial considerations at a time when every institution was in the realm of mitigating the impact of K to 12 transition. However, at some point, they were positive of such milieu of development and innovation in education paramount to standardization and leveraging of quality at par with ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework.