In: ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 2020, vol. 19, no. 1, p. 106-130
This article explores the subjective spatial relations that international schools in Switzerland seek to produce within the cosmopolitan enclaves they form. Based on ethnographic fieldwork at 21 international schools in Switzerland, we scrutinize practices related to diversity and mobility, which international schools construe as the main vehicles leading to the desired attributes of...
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In: Revista de Sociología de la Educación, 2017, vol. 10, no. 3, p. 502-518
This article proposes an analysis of the perceptions of teachers regarding a system of external testing of pupils’ achievements in primary schooling in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. In this context, different types of external tests (reference test in 4th and 6th grade; selection test in 8th grade) must allow teachers to adjust their teaching practices. A mixed research approach...
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In: British Journal of Religious Education
Over the past two decades, the organisation of religious education classes in Switzerland has undergone profound reforms. Amid the increasing secularisation and pluralisation of the religious landscape, many cantons have introduced a compulsory course that falls under the responsibility of the state and is aimed at teaching basic knowledge about a variety of religions. These reforms have enabled...
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In: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen, 2013, vol. 164, no. 8, p. 232-235
“Learn from yesterday, act today, think of tomorrow.”. For a long time now forest management in Switzerland has been based on the concept of sustainability. Nevertheless, not all forest visitors see things in the same way as foresters. Often the foresters’ work is criticized because the meaning and goals of forest interventions are not well understood and consequently not accepted by the...
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