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Higher Education, Language and New Nationalism in Finland

Recycled Histories

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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 catalyst 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. weiterlesen

Elektronisches Format: PDF

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-030-60902-3 / 978-3030609023 / 9783030609023

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsdatum: 16.11.2020

Seiten: 145

Autor(en): Taina Saarinen

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