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- Stier, Jonas
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Taking a critical stance toward internationalisation in higher education : Idealism, instrumentalism and educationalism
- 2004
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Ingår i: Globalisation, Societies and Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1476-7724 .- 1476-7732. ; 2:1, s. 1-28
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article suggests that difficulties in the implementation of internationalization policies in higher education can be explained by the fact that universities are guided by divergent understandings of the term ‘internationalization’ as well as by diverging or even contradictory ideologies. This text, therefore, critically singles out and investigates three internationalization ideologies, referred to as idealism, instrumentalism and educationalism with a special emphasis on their explicit as well as implicit visions, foci, goals and strategies.
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- Stier, Jonas, 1967-
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The blindspots and biases of intercultural communication studies : A discussion on episteme and doxa in a field
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Intercultural Communication. - 1404-1634. ; :24
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As with other evolving fields within the realms of science the ontological assumptions and epistemological aspirations of intercultural communication studies are matters of debate and disagreement. Differently put, the very point of take-off from which studies in this field are conducted is seldom scrutinized. This being said, this paper identifies and discusses a number of blindspots and biases of intercultural communication studies – e.g. the reluctance or inability to account for analytical ethnocentrism (‘home blindness’), heterocentrism (the unreflected and disproportionate focus on difference) or xenocentrism (the unreflected and disproportionate focus on ‘the other’). Additionally, normativism (the unreflected assumption that intercultural communication has desirable effects on people’s prejudices), cultural relativism versus absolutism, and particularism versus universalism are discussed. It is concluded that if the blindspots and biases of intercultural communication studies are overlooked, and thus the researcher is held as a cultural constant, the understanding of intercultural communication as interaction between two unavoidably and equally cultural interlocutors is deficient. Inspired by classical hermeneutics and discourse analysis it is therefore argued that intercultural communication studies researchers must declare their ontological assumptions and epistemological aspirations more actively and systematically.
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- Stier, Jonas, et al.
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The internationalised university as discourse : Institutional self-presentations, rhetoric and benchmarking in a global market
- 2010
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Ingår i: International Studies in Sociology of Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0962-0214 .- 1747-5066. ; 20:4, s. 335-353
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the last half century higher education has had to respond to a rapidly accentuated process of globalisation. Consequently, universities worldwide are more concerned with internationalisation than before. Stier identifies three intrinsic internationalisation ideologies (idealism,instrumentalism and educationalism) in higher education. Drawing from these ideologies and using discourse analysis, written documentation on internationalisation from 31 universities in 12 countries has been analysed to explore the self-presentations that universities project of themselves in discursive space. Focal questions were: (1) what types of rhetorical devices are used in university's self-presentations and (2) what are the ideological consequences of this use? Five idealtypical selfpresentations were discussed. One conclusion drawn is that universities must harmonize politically controversial dichotomies, which produces consensus narratives. Yet there are potential tensions between these dichotomies. On the language level these tensions are resolved by harmonising different ideals.
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- Stier, Jonas, et al.
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The quest for truth : The use of discursive and rhetorical resources in newspaper coverage of the (mis)treatment of young Swedish gymnasts
- 2016
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Ingår i: Discourse & Communication. - : Sage. - 1750-4813 .- 1750-4821. ; 10:1, s. 65-81
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 2012, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN) published a series of articles criticising Swedish national level gymnastics for being abusive. This text analyses the subsequent debate by identifying the discursive and rhetorical resources used by the involved parties. The analysis shows how the parties negotiate accountability, manage dilemmas of stake and what the possible social consequences of these are. Five narratives are singled out in the debate: the counter narrative, the victim narrative, the defence-speech narrative, the expert narrative and the ‘not-us-narrative’. In these narratives, the involved parties used rhetorical resources to account for reality. Hence, the gymnastics community, the research community, individuals and journalists are all portrayed as actors co-producing a social problem.
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- Stier, Jonas, 1967-
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The True Identity of Identity
- 2001
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Ingår i: Antropologicas. - 0873-819X. ; :5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Every human being has a psychological need for an identity, the same way any group of people needs to focus on a collectively shared identity. For the people, individuals or groups, an identity represents a concept-somewhat illusory although relatively persistent-of whom and of what one is, thus defining both the physical, psychological, social and cultural relations with other people and with the surrounding world. Life and the individual growth comprise the discovery of oneself with the continuing presence of change and personal evolution.
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