Internationalization of higher education in Brazil: Institutional strategies and different discourses about language among academics at one federal university

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article presents research which was carried out in one federal university in Brazil. The focus was on: (1) the ways in which institutional strategies and policy initiatives of different types, relating to research and to teaching, were being developed in the wake of internationalization and national policy shifts; (2) the views of different academics regarding these ongoing policy processes, and the wider discourses about language and about knowledge-building underpinning their views. The research was carried out as part of a wider study, based in two universities. The wider study was entitled: The changing language and literacy landscapes of Brazilian universities. This article builds on recent lines of theory-building in the ethnography of language policy.

Keywords

• Brazil
• higher education
• internationalization
• institutional strategies
• policy initiatives
• different disciplines
• different discourses