Internationalising Nordic higher education: comparing the imagined with actual worlds of international scholar-practitioners
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...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9bd10fc215714e52928084a1796e476d2022-12-22T02:14:58ZengOsloMet — Oslo Metropolitan UniversityNordic Journal of Comparative and International Education2535-40512018-01-011210.7577/njcie.19671967Internationalising Nordic higher education: comparing the imagined with actual worlds of international scholar-practitionersMeeri Hellstén0Associate Professor, Stockholm University (Associate Professor in International and Comparative Education)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.https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/nordiccie/article/view/1967internationalisationimaginaryepistemic imperativesworld society theorySwedenFinland |
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| title | Internationalising Nordic higher education: comparing the imagined with actual worlds of international scholar-practitioners |
| title_full | Internationalising Nordic higher education: comparing the imagined with actual worlds of international scholar-practitioners |
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| title_short | Internationalising Nordic higher education: comparing the imagined with actual worlds of international scholar-practitioners |
| title_sort | internationalising nordic higher education comparing the imagined with actual worlds of international scholar practitioners |
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| url | https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/nordiccie/article/view/1967 |
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