ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the ways in which international students portrayed some seeds of kosmopolitan positioning, such as through their comparative engagements with academic material, people, and cosmopolitan concepts, it is important to acknowledge, one more time, that their narratives were not all encompassing. It provides a brief review of recent literature that examines the experiences of international students in various places around the world through a cosmopolitan theoretical lens. The chapter indicates that foundations for international students' critical examinations of their relationships to "evolving social transformation" did exist at a fundamental level. The goal of educational institutions could be to cultivate them further. Social integration challenges provided a backdrop to the more enriching experiences that international students also shared, as they begun to acculturate and understand the different ways of being in their host countries. Finally, an additional seed for the potential growth of critical cosmopolitan orientations was found in a discussion of the meaning of term global citizen.
