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The Short and Intense Post-Nationalist Period in Finnish Higher Education

Taina Saarinen

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Higher educationbusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectNeoliberalismNational languageLingua francaNationalismInternationalization of Higher EducationInternationalizationPolitical sciencePolitical economyNation statebusinesscomputercomputer.programming_languagemedia_common

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This chapter presents the transition from a nationalist to post-nationalist period since the 1980s as the increasing systematic mobility and European cooperation as well as the fall of the Soviet Union turned Finnish higher education towards Western cooperation. The new internationalization strategies first aimed at founding mobility programmes for higher education and then particularly English medium study programmes. Post-national nation state emerges in the analysis mainly as an actor on the global economy. The discourses of competition and success in the global markets are interwoven with discourses of protection of the nation state. The use of English as an ostensibly self-evident and unquestioned lingua franca in the society increases, breaking the link between protection of “national” interests and national language.

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2020-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60902-3_3