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Discursive Construction of Internationalisation of Higher Education

Discursive Construction of Internationalisation of Higher Education. CHEPS Summer School 2004 Terhi Nokkala, University of Tampere, Finland . Background .

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Discursive Construction of Internationalisation of Higher Education

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  1. Discursive Construction of Internationalisation of Higher Education CHEPS Summer School 2004 Terhi Nokkala, University of Tampere, Finland

  2. Background • Motivation: higher education is said to be international by nature, on the other hand internationalisation of higher education is discussed as a new phenomenon. • What does this mean? • In everyday discussions, why is internationalisation presented as almost a force of nature, compelling the universities and national policy makers to act? • Interested in internationalisation as a discourse (or set of different discourses), rather than in internationalisation as a quantifiable phenomenon • Internationalisation AS something, not internationalisation OF something

  3. Theoretical framework: institutional approach and critical discourse analysis

  4. Institutions, organisations and discourses

  5. Research questions • What kind of internationalisation of higher education -discourses can be found in Finland and the Netherlands? • If there are different internationalisation of HE -discourses, to what extent have they institutionalised in higher education in the two countries, i.e. what is the strength of the discourses? • What are the possible implications of institutionalisation of given discourses for universities and higher education as larger scale social institutions, i.e. so what?

  6. Three levels of discourse analysis

  7. Empirical material • 6 interviews with university rectors • 6 interviews with national level actors • 2 interviews with European level actors • 5 check-up interviews • University, national and European level policy documents, strategies etc

  8. Heuristic analysis framework

  9. Example analysis: 2 interviews • Question 1A: Discourses • Two internationalisation discourses seem to be evident in the interviews • Market discourse • Traditional discourse • This is not to say that these would be the only ones rising from the entire body of data.

  10. Problems I am struggling with • Strengthening the link between institutions and discourses • Practical application of Fairclough’s CDA • Relationship between different types of data

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