The lure of internationalization: Paradoxical discourses of transnational student mobility, linguistic diversity and cross-cultural exchange
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The lure of internationalization: Paradoxical discourses of transnational student mobility, linguistic diversity and cross-cultural exchange. / Fabricius, Anne; Mortensen, Janus; Haberland, Hartmut.
I: Higher Education, 2017, s. 577-595.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The lure of internationalization: Paradoxical discourses of transnational student mobility, linguistic diversity and cross-cultural exchange
AU - Fabricius, Anne
AU - Mortensen, Janus
AU - Haberland, Hartmut
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This paper scrutinizes a set of paradoxes arising from a mismatch between contemporary discourses that praise and promote mobility in and internationalization of higher education, and the everyday effects of mobility and internationalization on university teaching and learning practice. We begin with a general characterization of the discourse of mobility and internationalization in a European context and then turn toDenmark as a specific case in which we unfold and discuss three paradoxes in turn:internationalization and linguistic pluralism, internationalization and intercultural understanding and, finally, internationalization and competitiveness. We then link ourdeconstruction of the three paradoxes to a critique of the concept of “parallel language policy,” widely promoted in the Nordic context, and show how it potentially undermines the ideals of internationalization.
AB - This paper scrutinizes a set of paradoxes arising from a mismatch between contemporary discourses that praise and promote mobility in and internationalization of higher education, and the everyday effects of mobility and internationalization on university teaching and learning practice. We begin with a general characterization of the discourse of mobility and internationalization in a European context and then turn toDenmark as a specific case in which we unfold and discuss three paradoxes in turn:internationalization and linguistic pluralism, internationalization and intercultural understanding and, finally, internationalization and competitiveness. We then link ourdeconstruction of the three paradoxes to a critique of the concept of “parallel language policy,” widely promoted in the Nordic context, and show how it potentially undermines the ideals of internationalization.
KW - Internationalisation, higher education, language policy, Denmark
M3 - Journal article
SP - 577
EP - 595
JO - Higher Education
JF - Higher Education
SN - 0018-1560
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