Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2011.
In this research we consider how the three main Swiss linguistic groups define their own collective identities. We carry out our analysis relying on a theoretical relationship between the political behaviors, the structure of a public space, the linguistic affiliation and the construction of codes that make visible a collectivity to itself and to the others. In the specific Swiss context there...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2011.
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2008.
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2009.
For several decades, the concept of competence has fallen into everyday use, assimilated by most languages of the western world and used in different social contexts, from economics to politics, from education to development. It has assumed surprising significance over a short period in education itself. Programmes and curricula, which remain, beyond the growing role of the market and the...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2009.
The present study is based on a few fundamental concepts and dedicated to a particular territory: marginality, representations, and the relations between Ticino, the central authorities of the Swiss Confederation and the majority population of Switzerland. Marginality is a phenomenon that has always existed and will always exist. It is scale related and depends on the relationships between...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2009.
The present research work provides an empirical answer to the following question: how does the public construction of the political power representations work? In other words, which are the main characteristics of political journalism? A Content analysis of two prominent Italian newspapers (Corriere della Sera e Sole 24Ore) was set up, during the last three months of the national campaign...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2008 ; 2008ECO005.
The concept of public-private partnership (PPP) has been developed in several countries, in the context of ground-breaking reforms related to the emergent paradigm of public management. A common characteristic among the PPP models developed around the world comprises the possibility for the public sector to bring in management processes from the private sector, such as privatization,...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2004 ; 2004COM04.
This doctoral thesis aims to reconstruct, analyse and provide a historical contextualization of the TV broadcast “Un’ora per voi”, which was intended to promote the integration of Italian workers and their families in Switzerland, in the years between the early 1960’s and the late 1980’s. Within the framework of the research on the history of television, this thesis focuses on an...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2007 ; 2007COM002.
The principal aim of this study is the analysis of communicational interactions between teachers and students, and between the students themselves. More precisely, the research analyzes “what happens” during several lessons of a scientific (mathematics) and a humanistic (Italian as the first language) subject. The fundamental purpose is to verify how the same student, according to the...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2008.
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