Internationalising Nordic higher education: comparing the imagined with actual worlds of international scholar-practitioners

Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education

Meeri Hellstén¹ 

[1] Associate Professor, Stockholm University (Associate Professor in International and Comparative Education)

关键词: internationalisation;    imaginary;    epistemic imperatives;    world society theory;    Sweden;    Finland;   

DOI  :  10.7577/njcie.1967

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences

【 摘 要 】

This comparative case study addresses a timely issue engaging researchers involved in the internationalisation of Nordic Higher Education, in the context of Sweden and Finland. The study examines a hypothetical imaginary in the transition between university international policy statements and their understandings from the position of a globalised episteme. The investigation forms a tag-project as part of a funded large international research project examining ethical internationalism in times of global crises, involving a partnership between more than twenty higher education institutions in excess of ten countries across five continents. The data was collected using a mixed-methods design, whilst being controlled across the matched data collection period in 2013-2014. Data consisted of policy texts, surveys and interviews. The current research inquiry reports on a within and across comparative analyses of certain policy texts and follow-up interviews with university management. The results yield logical support for a global higher education imaginary driving internationalisation in ways which reveal paradoxical associations between the imagined and the real worlds of international scholar-practitioners.

【 授权许可】

CC BY