International Education Policymaking: A Case Study of Ontario’s Trillium Scholarship Program

Authors

Amira El Masri, Sheridan CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-8-2020

Keywords

International Education Policy, international student funding, discourse coalition framework, argumentative discourse analysis, Ontario

Abstract

This paper explores Ontario’s international education policy landscape through illuminating the discursive struggles to define international student funding policies, in particular the international doctoral students’ Trillium Scholarship. Adopting Hajer’s (1993, 2006) Discourse Coalition Framework, the study engages with three research questions: What paved the way to this funding policy? Who were the actors engaged in this policy landscape? How has the argumentation over this policy influenced the international education policy context in Ontario? Argumentative discourse analysis was used to analyze three data sources: news articles, policy documents, and interviews. Two storylines were identified: international student funding is desirable and beneficial to Ontario versus Ontario first. Whereas the first storyline achieved hegemony, the second succeeded in bringing discourses of protectionism to the forefront influencing the government’s future engagement with international student funding. The paper ends with three observations on Ontario’s international education policy landscape. This study contributes to our understanding of how international student funding can be highly political and influenced by non-education policy spaces and discourses.

Faculty

Inclusive Communities

Journal

Canadian Journal of Higher Education

Volume

50

Issue

4

Version

Publisher's version

Copyright

© Amira El Masri

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Original Publication Citation

El Masri, A. (2020). International education policymaking: A case study of Ontario’s Trillium Scholarship Program. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 50 (4). https://doi.org/10.47678/cjhe.vi0.188819

SOURCE Citation

El Masri, Amira, "International Education Policymaking: A Case Study of Ontario’s Trillium Scholarship Program" (2020). Publications and Scholarship. 8.
https://source.sheridancollege.ca/nonfaculty_cei_publications/8