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Peripheries within the Higher Education Centres: Internationalisation Experiences in Finland and UK
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Trifuljesko, Sonja; Choi, On Hee – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2022
To investigate how the process of peripheralisation usurps internationalisation experiences within the global higher education centres, this article draws on two separate case studies, one conducted in Finland and the other in the UK. In both contexts, Anglophone hegemony plays an important role, but in different manners. In the Finnish case,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, English (Second Language), Language Usage
'The Time Where the British Took the Lead Is Over': Ethical Aspects of Writing in Complex Research Partnerships
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Pelikan, Kristina; Jeffery, Roger; Roelcke, Thorsten – Research Ethics, 2021
Writing reflects some of the different characteristics of the language being used and of the people who are communicating. The present paper focusses on the internal written communication in international and inter-disciplinary research projects. Using a case study of an international public health research project, it argues that the authorship…
Descriptors: Ethics, Writing (Composition), Collaborative Writing, Research
COVID-19 and Interculturality: Revisiting Assumptions about Intercultural Competence and Criticality Development in Modern Language Degree Programmes
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Parks, Elinor – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2023
The initial response to COVID-19 exposed widespread racism and Sinophobia across the world, which contributed to a rethinking of equality and diversity in Higher Education (HE) and beyond. Within Modern Languages, much attention has been placed on decolonising the curriculum. The death of George Floyd in 2020 further contributed to an increased…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Modern Languages, Second Language Learning
English as a Problem Language
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Moss, Peter – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2010
At a time when English has emerged as the dominant language of academic communication, there is a disturbing silence about the risks and problems attendant on this development and a failure to ask critical questions about its consequences. Who gains and who loses? What is lost in translation? What are the consequences of one way linguistic…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Academic Discourse, Risk
Networks of Practice in Science Education Research: A Global Context
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Martin, Sonya N.; Siry, Christina – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
In this paper, we employ cultural sociology and Braj Kachru's model of World Englishes as theoretical and analytical tools for considering English as a form of capital necessary for widely disseminating research findings from local networks of practice to the greater science education research community. We present a brief analysis of recent…
Descriptors: Researchers, Communities of Practice, Access to Information, English for Science and Technology
Disempowering and Dislocating: How Learners from Diverse Cultures Read the Role of the English Language in UK Higher Education
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Welikala, Thushari – London Review of Education, 2008
This paper explores how the English language privileges and empowers certain epistemologies and ontologies in international higher education in the UK. The author discusses how the English language is used to construct assumptions and practices to legitimise particular ways of constructing knowledge. The main argument is that language provides a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Role, English, Foreign Countries