COVID-19 Challenges to Teaching Global Mindset: A Developing Countries’ Perspective

Arora, Pallvi; Mahajan, Shivam; Yattoo, Takrar Ahmad

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic has affected one and all in unison. Different sectors, including the educational sector, have been disproportionately affected in developing and the least developed nations. Against this backdrop, this paper, while considering the impact that the pandemic has had on the education sector in developing nations viz. – India, South Africa, and Bangladesh, aims to bring to light the importance of teaching global mindset as there are several unique implications, challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for these nations. Using qualitative methodology, this research adopts an exploratory approach to understand how, among other things, the education sector can catalyze the development and teaching of a global mindset in the selected three countries and can be responsive even beyond. Ten semi-structured interviews have been conducted with “institutional heads/directors” across higher educational institutions in the nations under study to answer the research question that brings out three themes: global and local problem solving, resources, and international experiential learning and exposure toward developing a global mindset. Finally, while corroborating the findings of the research, the article also proposes a new definition of a “global mindset”.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jul 9, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Aug 23, 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Deposit Date: Jan 10, 2024
• Journal: Journal of Teaching in International Business
• Print ISSN: 0897-5930
• Electronic ISSN: 1528-6991
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 33
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 55-79
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08975930.2022.2101042
• Keywords: Global mindset, educational institutions, COVID-19, hybrid format
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3384232