Higher Education, Language and New Nationalism in Finland: Recycled Histories - Couverture souple

Saarinen, Taina

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3030609049 ISBN 13 : 9783030609047

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot, 2021

Synopsis

The book discusses recycled discourses of language and nationalism in Finnish higher education, demonstrating the need to look beyond language in the study of language policies of higher education. It analyses the historical and political layeredness of language policies as well as the intertwined nature of national and international developments in understanding new nationalism. Finnish higher education language policies were fuelled by the dynamics and tensions between the national languages Finnish and Swedish until the 2000s, when English begins to catalyse post nationalist discourses of economy and competitiveness. In the 2010s, English begins to be seen as a threat to Finnish. Educational, economic and epistemic nationalism emerge as the main cycles of new nationalist language policies in Finnish higher education. The book will be of interest to language policy and higher education scholars and practitioners, as well as graduate students language policy and higher education.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Taina Saarinen is Research Professor of Higher Education at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She has published widely on language policies of higher education and contemporary and historical language policies, recently in journals such as Higher Education, Rethinking History, and Language Policy. She particularly enjoys comparative and historically layered topics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Pivot
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3030609049
• ISBN 13: 9783030609047
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 156
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