Internationalisation of Higher Education and Nation Building: Resolving Language Policy Dilemmas in Lithuania

Autor/inn/en	Bulajeva, Tatjana; Hogan-Brun, Gabrielle
Titel	Internationalisation of Higher Education and Nation Building: Resolving Language Policy Dilemmas in Lithuania
Quelle	In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 35 (2014) 4, S.318-331 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-4632
DOI	10.1080/01434632.2013.874431
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Educational Policy; Multilingualism; Foreign Countries; International Education; Educational Trends; Trend Analysis; Global Approach; Strategic Planning; Language of Instruction; Indo European Languages; Native Language; Second Language Learning; Student Mobility; International Cooperation; European Union; Lithuania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Ausland; Internationale Erziehung; Bildungsentwicklung; Trendanalyse; Globales Denken; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Indoeuropäisch; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Litauen
Abstract	Our paper discusses trends and challenges faced by Lithuanian Higher Education (HE) internationalisation policy processes in the context of European and global internationalisation tendencies. Using 2001-2011 EU mobility statistics and data from recent HE Lithuanian strategic programmes aimed at promoting the internationalisation of university education (for 2009-2010 and 2011-2012), we discuss implications of these developments for the country's language (education) policy and its practical implementation. The officially practiced policy approach that aims to strengthen the national language and culture (as is visible throughout the post-Soviet space) faces challenges with the development of societal multilingualism. This contrasts with Western policy practices, where common/mutual rationales and approaches seek to support multilingualism and multiculturalism. In the Baltic region, protectionist national political instruments have had to address dilemmas that have arisen in connection with Western-mediated HE internationalisation processes. This has led to the deployment of different internationalisation policy rationales that promote global and regional cooperation. New approaches focused on linking Baltic language studies centres with departments of Baltistics and Indo-European studies have worked to establish stronger bonds with structures at foreign universities. As a consequence common interests in the study, research, development and promotion of the languages in the Baltic are now more widely shared, both regionally and internationally. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10