ERIC Number: EJ1177498
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
Pages: 25
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Country 'Hyper-Branding' and the Internationalization of Higher Education in Finland: Is the (R)evolution of Interculturality Coming?
Dervin, Fred
Educational Practice and Theory, v37 n2 p25-49 2015
In this article I use the current (r)evolution of interculturality to examine the logics, discourses and situated practices of internationalization in Finnish Higher Education. Based on a case study in Finland, different policies are analysed to see if and how the construction of internationalization takes place in these documents and what perspective(s) seem to be preferred. As the results show that intercultural discourses and logics, called BOTHOPY in this paper, seem to emerge, I look at peripheral documents related to the internationalization of Higher Education in the specific context under review, namely the intersection between Finnish education export, country branding and the internationalization of universities. These documents prove to follow an essentialist and somewhat ethnocentric approach to the 'intercultural' and contradict somewhat the silencing of this problematic treatment of self and other as found in the policies. The University under review seems thus to be torn apart between different perspectives on internationalization, which is representative of the global neo-liberal zeitgeist.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Global Approach, Case Studies, Discourse Analysis, Educational Practices, Multilingualism, Educational Policy, Position Papers, Educational Principles, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Change
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Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Finland (Helsinki)
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