”Internationality is an attitude in everyday life”
Keywords:
higher education, internationalisation, students, mobility, languagesAbstract
Over the past decades internationalisation has become one of the key issues in higher education. Respectively the topic has gained prominence as a subject of academic research. According to various studies internationalisation of higher education is a multifaceted and controversial process. In this article internationalisation is approached from student perspective. The empirical data was gathered among the students of Expertise in Russian and Eastern European Studies (ExpREES). The data was gathered by e-survey constituted by open questions. Close reading was used to analyse the data. According to the results students both frame languages and academic mobility as core issues of internationalisation and challenge the special role of these by emphasizing that internationalisation concerns all curricula as well as all academic staff and students. Hereby internationalisation is dealt with as an inherent part of everyday academic life whilst various actors behind the internationalisation and their impact on the process become blurred.
