大学自主性是欧洲高等教育中英语介质教学的一个预测因素
Peter Wingrove1, Beatrice Zuaro1, Marion Nao1
1Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, School of Languages and Applied Linguistics, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
概括
大学的自主性,特别是学术和组织方面的自主性,显著预测了欧洲高等教育机构 (HEIs) 采用英语作为教学媒介 (EMI) 的情况. 这一发现突显了大学治理与语言政策之间的关键联系.
科学领域:
- 高等教育研究 高等教育研究
- 语言政策语言政策
- 教育治理的教育治理
背景情况:
- 英语作为教学媒介 (EMI) 在全球高等教育中越来越普遍.
- 大学自主权对采用EMI的影响仍未得到充分研究.
- 欧洲高等教育改革强调"远程指导",可能会影响机构自主权.
研究的目的:
- 测试大学自治推动欧洲高等教育中EMI实施的假设.
- 量化大学自治的不同维度与EMI的流行之间的关系.
- 探索高等教育治理和语言转变的相互联系.
主要方法:
- 利用来自26个欧洲教育系统和1815个高等教育机构 (HEI) 的数据进行多层次回归分析.
- 使用大学自主性评分表 (2017年) 运行大学自主性,衡量学术,财务,人员和组织维度.
- 通过计算来自学习门户网站的英语授课学位课程 (ETP) 来量化EMI.
主要成果:
- 发现,大学的整体自主性是公立大学EMI的重要预测因素 (p=0.002).
- 总体自主性比平均水平增加1个点与提供EMI的可能性增加9.5%相关.
- 学术,人事和组织自主性的维度预测了EMI的积极性,而财务自主性则没有.
结论:
- 这项研究提供了第一个量化证据,将大学自主权与EMI联系起来.
- 调查结果表明,高等教育治理结构,特别是那些增强机构自主性的机构,在EMI的扩张中发挥着至关重要的作用.
- 这项研究强调了跨学科方法的价值,将语言政策与高等教育管理和治理联系起来.
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