Syllabus for Transnational Educational Strategies

Transnationella utbildningsstrategier

Syllabus

  • 7.5 credits
  • Course code: 4UK111
  • Education cycle: Second cycle
  • Main field(s) of study and in-depth level: Sociology of Education A1N

    Explanation of codes

    The code indicates the education cycle and in-depth level of the course in relation to other courses within the same main field of study according to the requirements for general degrees:

    First cycle

    • G1N: has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
    • G1F: has less than 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
    • G1E: contains specially designed degree project for Higher Education Diploma
    • G2F: has at least 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
    • G2E: has at least 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements, contains degree project for Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
    • GXX: in-depth level of the course cannot be classified

    Second cycle

    • A1N: has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
    • A1F: has second-cycle course/s as entry requirements
    • A1E: contains degree project for Master of Arts/Master of Science (60 credits)
    • A2E: contains degree project for Master of Arts/Master of Science (120 credits)
    • AXX: in-depth level of the course cannot be classified

  • Grading system: Fail (U), Pass (G), Pass with distinction (VG)
  • Established: 2010-12-14
  • Established by: The Faculty Board of Educational Sciences
  • Revised: 2017-11-09
  • Revised by: The Department Board
  • Applies from: Autumn 2018
  • Entry requirements:

    A Bachelor's degree including at least 90 credits from a discipline pertaining to the social sciences or the humanities.

  • Responsible department: Department of Education

Decisions and guidelines

The course is part of the Master's Programme in Sociology of Education. It can also be given as an independent course.

Learning outcomes

The course aims at providing the student with a multidisciplinary understanding of educational strategies that transcend national boundaries.

After completion of the course the students are expected to be able to:

  • describe the main features of internationalisation of higher education and research in a global, European, and Swedish perspective
  • from a historical perspective analyse the relationship between regionalisation, nationalisation, internationalisation, globalisation and trans-nationalisation of education
  • explain and analyse the content of and conditions for social groups’ transnational educational strategies
  • describe and analyse how the internationalisation of education is affected by the ways it is organised

Content

The course focuses on transnational educational strategies in a multi-disciplinary, historical and comparative perspective.

The following areas are covered in the course:

  • the main features of the internationalisation of higher education and research,
  • processes of regionalisation, nationalisation, internationalisation, globalisation and transnationalisation in education
  • social groups’ transnational educational strategies
  • organisation of the internationalisation of higher education

Instruction

The course consists of a series of lectures and seminars.

Assessment

The assessment is based on a written assignment. Participation in the defence of written assignments is compulsory.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.

Syllabus Revisions

Reading list

Reading list

Applies from: Autumn 2021

Some titles may be available electronically through the University library.

Additional Information

Additional articles of about 100 pages

  • The Rise of International Large-scale Assessments and Rationales for participation Addley, Camilla Steiner-Khansi, Gita; Lingard, Bob; Verger, Antoni

    Part of:

    Compare.

    Oxford, Eng.: Carfax Pub. Co.,

    vol. 47 (2017) nr. 3 s. 434-452

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Altbach, Philip G. Knowledge and Education as International Commodities : The Collapse of the Common Good

    Part of:

    International Higher Education

    Center for International Higher Education,

    vol. 28 (2002) s. 2-5

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Bonal, Xavier Dale, Roger; Robertson, Susan L. GATS and the Education Service Industry : The Politics of Scale and Global Reterritorialization

    Part of:

    Comparative education review.

    vol. 46 (2002) nr. 4 s. 472-495

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Börjesson, Mikael The Global Space of International Students

    Part of:

    Journal of ethnic and migration studies.

    vol. 43 (2017) nr. 8 s. 1256-1275

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Brooks, Rachel; Waters, Johanna. Student mobilities, migration and the internationalization of higher education

    Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Brooks, Rachel Waters, J. The Hidden Internationalism of Elite English Schools

    Part of:

    Sociology.

    vol. 49 (2015) nr. 2 s. 212-228

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Carlson, Sören Becoming a Mobile Student - a Processual Perspective on German Degree Student Mobility : Becoming a Mobile Student - a Processual Perspective

    Part of:

    Population, space and place [Elektronisk resurs]

    New York: Wiley, 2004-

    vol. 19 (2013) nr. 2 s. 168-180

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    Mandatory

  • Dugonjić, Leonora A Miniature League of Nations : Inquiry into the Social Origins of the International School, 1924-1930

    Part of:

    Paedagogica historica.

    Gent, Belgium: Centre for Study of History of Education.,

    vol. 50 (2014) nr. 1-2 s. 138-150

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    Mandatory

  • Findlay, Allan M. An Assessment of Supply and Demand-side Theorization of International Student Mobility

    Part of:

    International migration.

    vol. 49 (2011) nr. 2 s. 162-190

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    Mandatory

  • ‘It was always the plan’ : international study as ‘learning to migrate' Findlay, A.; Prazeres, L.; McCollum, D.; Packwood, H.

    Part of:

    Area [Elektronisk resurs] : published on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographer)

    Oxford: Blackwell, 2001-

    vol. 49 (2017) s. 192-199

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    Mandatory

  • Ginnerskov-Dahlberg, Mette Inherited dreams of ‘the West’ : Eastern European students’ paths to Denmark

    Part of:

    The Palgrave handbook of youth mobility and educational migration

    Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

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    Mandatory

  • Hayden, Mary Transnational Spaces of Education : the Growth of the International School Sector

    Part of:

    Globalisation, societies and education.

    vol. 9 (2011) nr. 2 s. 211-224

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    Mandatory

  • Hogan, Anna Sellar, Sam; Lingard, Bob Commercialising Comparison : Pearson puts the TLC in Soft Capitalism

    Part of:

    Journal of education policy

    vol. 31 (2016) nr. 3 s. 243-258

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    Mandatory

  • MacHardy, Karin J. Cultural capital, family strategies and noble identity in early modern Habsburg Austria 1579-1620

    Part of:

    Past & present

    (1999) nr. 163 s. 36-75

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    Mandatory

  • Olwig, Karin Fog Valentin, Karen Mobility, education and life trajectories: new and old migratory pathways

    Part of:

    Identities [Elektronisk resurs] : global studies in culture and power.

    [Yverdon?] Switzerland: Gordon and Breach Publishers, 1994-

    vol. 22 (2015) nr. 3 s. 247-257

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    Mandatory

  • Perkins, Richard Neumayr, Eric Geographies of Educational Mobilities : Exploring the Uneven Flows of International Students

    Part of:

    The geographical journal : published on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)

    Oxford: Blackwell, 2001-

    (2014) nr. 180 s. 246-259

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    Mandatory

  • Raghuram, Parvati Theorising the Spaces of Student Migration

    Part of:

    Population, space and place [Elektronisk resurs]

    New York: Wiley, 2004-

    vol. 19 (2013) nr. 2 s. 138-154

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    Mandatory

  • Rahimi, Mark Halse, Christine; Blackmore, Jill Transnational secondary schooling and im/mobileinternational students

    Part of:

    Australian educational researcher [Elektronisk resurs]

    1985-2018

    (2017) nr. 44 s. 299-321

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    Mandatory

  • Robertson, Shanthi Runganaikaloo, Anjena Lives in limbo : Migration experiences in Australia’s education–migration nexus

    Part of:

    Ethnicities.

    London: Sage, 2001-

    (2014) nr. 14 s. 208-226

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    Mandatory

  • Rönnberg, Linda From National Policy-making to Global Edubusiness : Swedish edu-preneurs on the Move

    Part of:

    Journal of education policy

    vol. 32 (2017) nr. 2 s. 234-249

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    Mandatory

  • Sassen, Saskia Sociology of globalization

    New York: W.W. Norton, 2006

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Spring, Joel H. Globalization of education : an introduction

    New York, NY: Routledge, 2008

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Verger, Antoni Steiner-Khamsi, Gita; Lubienski, Christopher The Emerging Global Education Industry : Analysing Market-making in Education through Market Sociology

    Part of:

    Globalisation, societies and education.

    vol. 15 (2017) nr. 3 s. 325–340

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    Mandatory

  • Waddling, Jennifer Bertilsson, Emil; Palme, Mikael Struggling with Capital : A Bourdieusian Analysis of Educational Strategies among Internationally Mobile Middle Class Families in Sweden

    Part of:

    Discourse : studies in cultural politics of education

    London: Taylor & Francis, 2000-

    vol. 0 (2019) nr. 0 s. 1-20

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    Mandatory

  • Wedlin, Linda Going Global : Rankings as Rhetorical Devices to Construct an International Field of Management Education

    Part of:

    Management learning : the international journal for managerial and organizational learning and development

    vol. April (2011) nr. 42 s. 199–218

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    Mandatory

  • Weenink, Don Cosmopolitanism as a Form of Capital. Parents Preparing their Children for a Globalizing World

    Part of:

    Sociology.

    vol. 42 (2008) nr. 6 s. 1089-1106

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    Mandatory

  • Wiers-Jenssen, Jannecke Degree Mobility from the Nordic Countries : Background and Employability

    Part of:

    Journal of studies in international education.

    vol. 17 (2013) nr. 4 s. 471–491

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    Mandatory

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