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Performative bilingual policy: an analysis of two Taiwanese White Papers on international education
- Source :
- Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. 53:253-268
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2021.
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Abstract
- In 2011, the Taiwanese Ministry of Education issued a policy on the internationalisation of schooling. The policy assumes that being ‘international’ has become necessary in order to maintain economic competitiveness in a globalising world. It was published in two languages: Mandarin, the official language in Taiwan, and English, presupposed as a lingua franca. Treating ‘policy as discourse’, the article analyses internationalism and its performativity through the publication and specific textual construction of this policy. The analysis considers the layout, target readerships, conceptual translation, and spatial representation and construction of ‘Chineseness’ in the two policy texts. This attempt at internationalisation is related to the very specific historical and geopolitical conditions of Taiwan and its liminal position in the globe. The significance of the article rests in expanding ideas of ‘translation’ in education policy studies and in the analysis of the specific geopolitics of East Asia. Refereed/Peer-reviewed
- Subjects :
- Internationalism (politics)
05 social sciences
Taiwan
postcolonialism
Media studies
translation
050301 education
Performative utterance
Geopolitics
Lingua franca
Education
International education
Political science
Performativity
international education
performative
Official language
Education policy
0503 education
computer
computer.programming_language
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14693623 and 03057925
- Volume :
- 53
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....25adb13179bf9b212eac8b460f5f2f63