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

• Autore: Harris Suzy
• Pubblicazione: New York, NY, : Continuum International Pub. Group, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (142 p.)
• Disciplina: 378/.016
• Soggetto topico: Students, Foreign; Education, Higher - Aims and objectives; Language and education; Education and globalization
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The university in translation
• ISBN: 1-283-01572-2; 9786613015723; 1-4411-2311-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458781303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II