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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Engel, Laura C.
• Siczek, Megan M.

Titel

A cross-national comparison of international strategies: global citizenship and the advancement of national competitiveness

Ist Teil von

• Compare, 2018-09, Vol.48 (5), p.749-767

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This paper examines national-level strategies concerning internationalisation of education and the extent to which global citizenship is deployed in their discourse. We focus on a cross-national comparison of selected internationalisation strategies in Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK and the USA, all countries with highly developed economies and a relatively high proportion of the market share of international students. We draw on a thematic textual analysis and the use of corpus technologies to explore the framing of discourses and language use in each strategy. Our comparative analysis of national strategies highlights a dominant approach to international education that is primarily competitive in its orientation, with national interest as the key driver. This cross-national comparison also revealed considerable variation in framing of strategic internationalisation on a discourse level. Based on findings, we argue that internationalisation strategies limit the possibilities of advancing central tenets of global citizenship.