The book discusses recycled discourses of language and nationalism in Finnish higher education, demonstrating the need to look beyond language in the study of language policies of higher education.
Taina Saarinen is Research Professor of Higher Education at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She has published widely on language policies of higher education and contemporary and historical language policies, recently in journals such as Higher Education, Rethinking History, and Language Policy. She particularly enjoys comparative and historically layered topics.
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Conceptualising language policy and higher education in new nationalism.- Chapter 2: Language and long nation building in Finnish higher education.- Chapter 3: The short and intense post-nationalist period in Finnish higher education.- Chapter 4: Language and new nationalism in higher education (in Finland and a bit elsewhere).- Chapter 5: New nationalism and higher education.