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Precarious privilege: personal debt, lifestyle aspirations and mobility among international school teachers

Rey, Jeanne ; Bolay, Matthieu ; Gez, Yonatan N.

In: Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2020, vol. 18, no. 4, p. 361-373

Recent decades have seen an exponential growth in the field of international schools, and a concurrent rise in the number of young Anglo-Saxon teachers overseas. Such mobile teaching careers have largely been presented in terms of emphasising exploration, travel and lifestyle-related migration. While acknowledging such factors, we also draw attention to financial constraints, and in particular,...

Université de Fribourg

The relationship of obesity predicting decline in executive functioning is attenuated with greater leisure activities in old age

Ihle, Andreas ; Gouveia, Élvio R. ; Gouveia, Bruna R. ; Zuber, Sascha ; Mella, Nathalie ; Desrichard, Olivier ; Cullati, Stéphane ; Oris, Michel ; Maurer, Jürgen ; Kliegel, Matthias

In: Aging & Mental Health, 2019, p. 1–8

Objectives: We investigated the longitudinal relationship between obesity and subsequent decline in executive functioning over six years as measured through performance changes in the Trail Making Test (TMT). We also examined whether this longitudinal relationship differed by key markers of cognitive reserve (education, occupation, and leisure activities), taking into account age, sex, and...

Université de Fribourg

Middle-income groups in Kenya : Conflicting realities between upward mobility and uncertainty

Neubert, Dieter

In: sozialpolitik.ch, 2019, vol. 1, no. 4, p. Article: 1.4

For more than a decade scholars mostly from economy and development studies have described the rise of a newly emerging ‘middle class’ in the Global South including Africa. This has led to a ‘middle class narrative’ with the ‘middle class’ as the backbone of economic and democratic development. Especially with regard to the stability of the position of the people in the ‘middle’,...

Université de Fribourg

Changer le travail ou changer la société ? : Les hackers entre conformation à l'ordre social et volonté d'innover

Zufferey, Eric ; Surdez, Muriel (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2018.

Cette thèse vise à interroger le hackingcomme source de changement social, voire de subversion de l’ordre social. En mettant en jeu une forme d’autodidaxie et un décloisonnement social entre amateurs, professionnels et militants, il fait espérer des changements dans l’accès aux savoirs, ainsi que dans les manières de penser le rôle de la technologie au sein de nos sociétés. Dans le...