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Neoliberal Universities, International Students, and Language Learning

2017· article· en· W2804682303 on OpenAlexaffabout
Hyunjung Shin

Bibliographic record

Venue2017 Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSecond Language Learning and Teaching
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCommodificationNeoliberalism (international relations)MarketizationCapitalismSociologyInternationalizationRestructuringContext (archaeology)IdeologyPolitical economyPolitical scienceSocial sciencePoliticsEconomyEconomicsChina
DOInot available

Abstract

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This paper aims to explore internationalization of universities in the context of the political economy, that is, as part of a broader neoliberal transformation of the global economy characterized by individual entrepreneurial freedom and marketization of society (Bourdieu, 1998; Giroux, 2014; Harvey, 2005; Olssen, 2004; Saunders, 2010). Drawing from an on-going 2 year ethnographic study on internationalization of Korean and Chinese universities, this presentation examines how internationalization is a socially significant way of thinking about students as potential workers in relation to a neoliberal ideology which constructs individuals as human capital made up of bundles of skills. In this context, acquisition of language as commodified skills, as a resource with exchange value, constitutes a crucial component of the neoliberal regime of human capital development (Holborow, 2015; Park, 2011). Yet, language education research has been scarce on its active engagement with and critique of neoliberalism within the confines of the neoliberal restructuring of the universities. The analysis examines how language learning of the international students, increasingly subject to the logic of the market capitalism, not only reflects neoliberal social transformations but also reinforces them. The paper concludes with a discussion of implications for international education in Canada.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.050
Threshold uncertainty score0.111

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0080.025
Scholarly communication0.0140.005
Open science0.0010.010
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.042
GPT teacher head0.301
Teacher spread0.259 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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