What about Swedish? Internationalisation, Societal Responsibility and National Languages in Finnish Higher Education
Abstract
The chapter discusses discourses of “language” indexing social tasks of universities. We are interested in how talk of “language” is used to index the political, economic, educational, cultural etc. nature of higher education; in other words, what we talk about when we think we talk about language. We are mainly focusing on the position Swedish in the tensions of national language policies, higher education policies and internationalisation. In the chapter, we show the various ways in which higher education policies and language policies are intertwined, producing both intended and unintended language policy outcomes.
Main Authors
Format
Books
Book part
Published
2022
Series
Subjects
Publication in research information system
Publisher
Brill
The permanent address of the publication
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202111225740Käytä tätä linkitykseen.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004507920_004
Parent publication ISBN
978-90-04-50791-3
Review status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2542-8721
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004507920_004
Language
English
Published in
Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching
Is part of publication
Language Matters in Higher Education Contexts : Policy and Practice
Citation
- Saarinen, T., & Rontu, H. (2022). What about Swedish? Internationalisation, Societal Responsibility and National Languages in Finnish Higher Education. In B.-M. Apelgren, A.-M. Eriksson, & S. Strömberg Jämsvi (Eds.), Language Matters in Higher Education Contexts : Policy and Practice. Brill. Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching, 22. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004507920_004
License
Funder(s)
Svenska Kulturfonden
Funding program(s)
Foundation
Säätiö
Copyright© 2022 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.