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Harlap, Yael; Riese, Hanne – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
How does the process of racialization unfold as a discursive project at the university? How do students and faculty in the classroom use racial categories in supposedly post-racial places? How do People of Color in higher education in Norway narrate their experiences of being 'Othered'? We draw on two linked studies and use membership…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Race, Personal Narratives, Foreign Countries
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Flavin, Michael; Zhou Chen, Ting; Quintero, Valentina – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2020
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have mission statements as a matter of course. This article analyses 127 mission statements from UK HEIs, comprising 76.048% of the mainstream UK higher education sector. The statements were divided into the categories of Russell Group; Other; and Specialist Institution. A mixed methods research approach was…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Position Papers, Institutional Mission, Language Usage
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Mendoza, Carlos; Dervin, Fred; Layne, Heidi – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
Internationalization at home (IaH) policies in higher education institutions (HEIs) are rarely negotiated with and by students. Therefore, students' takes on such policies could be missed opportunities for HEIs. This qualitative study investigates international and local students' negotiations and meaning-making of integration and IaH as stated by…
Descriptors: International Education, Student Attitudes, Foreign Students, Foreign Countries
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Zhu, Yuting – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
The existing metadiscourse studies on the comparison of English and Chinese language are relatively few, especially on spoken discourse. The present study examines the use of personal metadiscourse in English and Chinese commencement speeches based on Ädel's reflexive model of metadiscourse and its adaption. The corpus for this study comprises 60…
Descriptors: English, Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
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Oyedemi, Toks – Critical Studies in Education, 2020
The colonial nature of South African universities remains a source of debate among students and academics. Decolonization as rethinking academic institutional practices seems less controversial; the specificity of how to decolonize the academia is the core of divergent arguments and contesting ideologies. Consequently, many suggestions and methods…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Universities, Educational Practices, Educational Change
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Ng, Carl Jon Way – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2016
This article examines the corporate branding efforts of Singapore's publicly funded higher education institutions within a context of neoliberal marketization. Adopting a discourse-analytic perspective, it examines the kind of branding approaches employed by Singapore's universities and polytechnics, and how these approaches are realized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Higher Education, Discourse Analysis
Pasquesi, Kira – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Colleges and universities use language (i.e., talk and text) to represent diversity and inclusion in community engagement. Diversity refers to individual and social or group differences (e.g., race, ethnicity, national origin, social class, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, ability), while inclusion is the intentional and ongoing…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Usage, Community Involvement, Discourse Analysis
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Ryan, Juliana – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
A number of Australian universities have established and sponsored interdisciplinary communities of practice (CoPs) to develop teaching and learning. CoPs are popularly defined as groups of people who share a passion for something and, together, learn how to do it better. Without further specification, this definition is of limited use in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Interdisciplinary Approach, Discourse Analysis
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Kreissl, Katharina; Striedinger, Angelika; Sauer, Birgit; Hofbauer, Johanna – Gender and Education, 2015
Similar to other European countries, the introduction of non-academic, especially managerial, criteria in higher education has shaped and altered Austrian universities since over a decade. This paper presents the results of a frame analysis of Austrian higher education debates from 1993 until 2010. It outlines how reforms in higher education were…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Gender Differences, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
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Kerschbaum, Stephanie L. – College Composition and Communication, 2012
In this essay, the author aims to show how a specific focus on interactionally emergent and rhetorically negotiated elements of a communicative situation can enrich the study of difference in composition research. She develops this argument by first identifying two strategies used by writing researchers when forwarding new understandings of…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Higher Education, Rhetoric, Identification
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Jiang, Nan; Carpenter, Victoria – International Education Studies, 2014
The purpose of this research was to examine challenges and issues of higher education (HE) internationalization. A qualitative study was conducted at a UK university. A total of 20 interviewees from the case study institution participated in this research. Content analysis, critical discourse analysis and categorization of meaning were adopted as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Global Approach, Case Studies
Gonzalez, Anna K. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation seeks to rearticulate racial formations in the United States and expand the discourse on race in higher education by placing Asian Americans at the center of the discussion. Through the use of genealogy and discourse analysis, this research presents a broader description of the Asian American racial experience in higher education…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Experience, Higher Education, Race
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Luckett, Kathy – Research Papers in Education, 2012
This paper contributes to understanding why curriculum design in a discipline with a horizontal knowledge structure is difficult, time-consuming and contested. A previous paper on the same case study in one sociology department reported that students who had completed the general sociology major found it lacking in coherence. To illustrate the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Intellectual Disciplines, Discourse Analysis, Educational Sociology
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Jiang, Nan; Carpenter, Victoria – International Journal of Educational Management, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to identify and critically evaluate key issues faced by an institution in the quest to implement higher education internationalization. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative research is conducted in a post-1992 UK university. A total of 20 interviewees from three key departments participated in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Strategic Planning, Program Implementation
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Haas, Eric; Fischman, Gustavo – American Educational Research Journal, 2010
Recent developments in cognitive science and linguistics provide strong evidence that understanding decision-making processes in higher education requires close attention to not only rational and consciously controlled dynamics but also those aspects that are less consciously controlled than previously assumed. When deciding to favor or reject…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Policy, Content Analysis, Models
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