Abstract:

The international discourse power of higher education is the unification of the expression rights and powers of international higher education, and it is a concentrated expression of the soft power of countries in today’s world. The basic connotation of international discourse power lies in the behavior and process that the discourse subject, from the two dimensions of history and comparison, expresses the hidden value and function of higher education to the world and finally obtains the recognition by the international community. Its value representation is consentratedly embodied as a systematic evolution with the cultural self-confidence as the core. The generating and developing paths of international discourse power take identity recognition as the internal relationship and the international influence as the external relationship, thus realizing the extension and expansion of the higher education relationship category. Following this internal logic, this paper will explore the implications of the relationship between the promotion of higher education’s international discourse power and Chinese-Foreign universities overseas cooperation (CFUOC). It can be found that CFUOC is an important paradigm for enhancing the international discourse power of Chinese higher education. According to the laws of internal and external relations of higher education, and combined with the practice of overseas cooperation in running universities, this paper summarizes the main influencing factors and their relationships, and builds a basic analysis framework. It proposes that the higher education discourse power in country needs to be effectively promoted through the measures, including improving the international universality of higher education, providing universities with more missions for overseas cooperation in university operation, increasing the momentum for overseas collaboration in university operation, and taking measures such as expanding overseas partners to achieve local adaptation.

Key words: higher education, international discourse power, cross-border education, co-operative school