TY - JOUR AU - Hellstén, Meeri PY - 2018/01/12 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Internationalising Nordic higher education: comparing the imagined with actual worlds of international scholar-practitioners JF - Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE) JA - NJCIE VL - 1 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.7577/njcie.1967 UR - https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/nordiccie/article/view/1967 SP - AB - <p class="Abstract">This comparative case study addresses a timely issue engaging researchers involved in the internationalisation of Nordic Higher Education, in the context of Sweden and Finland. The study examines a hypothetical imaginary in the transition between university international policy statements and their understandings from the position of a globalised episteme. The investigation forms a tag-project as part of a funded large international research project examining ethical internationalism in times of global crises, involving a partnership between more than twenty higher education institutions in excess of ten countries across five continents. The data was collected using a mixed-methods design, whilst being controlled across the matched data collection period in 2013-2014. Data consisted of policy texts, surveys and interviews. The current research inquiry reports on a <em>within and across</em> comparative analyses of certain policy texts and follow-up interviews with university management. The results yield logical support for a global higher education imaginary driving internationalisation in ways which reveal paradoxical associations between the imagined and the real worlds of international scholar-practitioners.</p> ER -