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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458781303321

Autore

Harris Suzy

Titolo

The university in translation [[electronic resource] ] : the internationalization of higher education / / Suzy Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Continuum International Pub. Group, c2011

ISBN

1-283-01572-2

9786613015723

1-4411-2311-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (142 p.)

Disciplina

378/.016

Soggetti

Students, Foreign

Education, Higher - Aims and objectives

Language and education

Education and globalization

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; A Prefatory Note; Part One: Policy; 1 A Tower of Achievement; 2 The Transformation of Higher Education; Part Two: Language; 3 Students' Experiences in Translation; 4 An International Lexicon; Part Three: Translation; 5 The Crisis of Judgement; 6 The University in Translation; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W

Sommario/riassunto

What is the purpose of the university in a globalized and internationalized world? How do we talk about higher education? How is language used in higher education?. An instrumentalist and technical language - of 'impacts', 'outcomes', and 'targets' - has come to pervade political and educational discourse. Apparently more reliable than ordinary language, this technical discourse seems to promise a new objectivity in which everything that we need to know can be calculated and measured. Suzy Harris argues that the kind of language we use is critical to the kind of education we have, and that the