Anna Becker
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3606281 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anna Becker |
| PRENOMES | Anna |
| SOBRENOME | Becker |
| ASSINATURA | BECKER A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Fribourg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1818-291X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Soft Coloniality of English
This article examines how English-language dominance shapes epistemic hierarchies in Comparative and International Education (CIE), focusing on ‘semi-peripheral’ European higher education. It asks how internationalization policies and English-medium instruction (EMI) affect whose knowledge is recognized as legitimate and what this means for linguistic justice and epistemic pluralism. Methodologically, the study combines qualitative document analy…
Socio-cultural integration of international students in Europe
International student mobility (ISM) has gained increasing importance in the last decades, while the integration of international students remains a key area of research in the literature. This systematic review aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the socio-cultural integration of international students in Europe by examining how transnational mobility influences the socialization among students, what factors influence and hinder social a…
The Hidden Curriculum of Gender Identity in L2 Classrooms
In this Teaching Issues contribution, we explore what we refer to as the hidden curriculum of gender identity in second language (L2) classrooms. We begin by introducing the concept of the hidden curriculum and situate it within the current sociopolitical and educational climate surrounding issues of gender identity in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and applied linguistics. We then discuss two key considerations through w…
Bridging Policy and Training Gaps
In many higher education institutions (HEIs), English often serves as the primary language within internationalized academic circles and an important medium of instruction with varying implications for international students and instructors who rely on English‐medium instruction (EMI). Effective language policy and planning (LPP) is essential to support the integration of EMI while addressing the challenges of internationalization and multilingua…
Sustainability of EMI programs in the countries of the expanding circle
Bridging Cultures in Academia
Decolonial Archeology of Migration Spaces
In this article, we consider artifacts relating to the Ukrainian refugee population located in reception contexts, namely, the cities of Bern, Switzerland; Warsaw, Poland; Dresden, Germany; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and Vilnius, Lithuania. Within these contexts, we use archeological methods of examining material artifacts (e.g., objects, landscapes) in the present time to glean meaning about lifestyle, social organization, and community relatio…
Applied Linguistics Communities of Practice
Employing the concept of practice-based research (Sato and Loewen 2022), this study argues for the creation of applied linguistics communities of practice (CoPs) as a capacitating space for researchers and practitioners, mutual exchange, and meaningful collaboration. This is needed given the existing gap between research and practice, which is particularly alarming in the field of applied linguistics. The study draws on eight in-depth, semi-struc…
Educational practice in Switzerland
Despite the uptick in awareness of racial and other sociocultural diversity owing to recent social movements particularly in the United States but also in many countries in Europe, deep understanding of identity and bias is lacking and remedies for policy and practice inequities in the education sector remain. Steadily increasing racial and linguistic heterogeneity demands better understanding on the part of school leaders—and the larger school s…
‘English [as a lingua franca ] is absolutely out of question!’ – The struggle between globalization and (neo-)nationalist traditions in Switzerland’s secondary schools
The increasing popularity of radical right, anti-immigrant, neo-nationalist movements can be seen as a response to super-diverse and complex migration and globalization processes challenging the ideology of the ‘nation-state’ and the traditional education system. Based on the question of how English is increasingly viewed as a threat to Swiss national languages and identities, this study presents data from Switzerland, often portrayed as the idea…
Postcritical school leadership encounters
Establishing quality education as a human right, public undertaking, and common good representative of humanity and the planet through imagining a “new social contract for education” is an ambitious endeavor and crucial to (post)humanity’s myriad ways of knowing, living, and being. This article introduces postcritical educational leadership as an indispensable element in shaping the future of education by informing and implementing new social con…
Which roads lead to access? A global landscape of six Covid-19 vaccine innovation models
BACKGROUND: Unequal and inequitable access to Covid-19 vaccines in low- and middle-income countries (L&MICs) was a major political, ethical and public health failure in the pandemic. However, vaccine developers' practices were not monolithic, but rather, took diverse approaches to supplying different countries, with important implications for global access. RESULTS: Using data on R&D investments, regulatory approvals, manufacturing and purchase a…
Comparative regionalism cases of artificial intelligence governance in education
This article is a comparative examination of how the European Union's (EU) emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) regulatory framework can provide guidance for the development of AI governance despite being perceived as an imposition on other regions such as the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The Caribbean stands at an intersection of technological evolution, confronting the essential challenges of navigating AI's expansion with an ethos of inclus…
Appendix A
Appendix D
Findings
Conclusion
Education, Languages, and Power
Appendix C
Appendix B
Methodology
Children’s agency in interactions
Although Switzerland is a plurilingual country, most early education and care (ECEC) institutions are monolingual. Yet, new institutions have recently established English as a second language of instruction, addressing economically advantaged families. Despite the growing body of international research on language policy and practice in multilingual ECEC, only few have addressed such ‘privileged’ institutions, and the role children play in dealin…
Identity, Power, and Prestige in Switzerland's Multilingual Education
Grischun 1In the case of Switzerland, the Swiss Federal Constitution "ensure[s] that [the Confederation] treats the four national Swiss languages equally" (LangA, Art. 3, a, 2017).According to the Cambridge Dictionary, 'equality' means "the right of different groups of people to have a similar social position and receive the same treatment," for the purpose of this study, based on their linguistic repertoire. 2Despite the equal legal basis of Swi…
Establishing multiple languages in early childhood. Heritage languages and language hierarchies in German-English daycare centers in Switzerland
The number of conceptually bilingual daycare centers has been steadily increasing in Switzerland, a traditionally multilingual country. Yet, the focus on the languages introduced in these institutions has largely remained on one national language – and English. We look at how English and – in our case – German are employed in daycare centers and how their prioritization leads to a reproduction and legitimization of language hierarchies. Drawing o…
I’m also trying to figure out the identity of my students.’ – teachers’ multilingual identity negotiation in the heritage language classroom
This study investigates the interplay among identity, language, and culture of six heritage language (HL) teachers at a Greek school in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. It applies the concept of participative multilingual identity construction and argues that in order for teachers to provide agency and opportunities to their students to engage in (multilingual) identity education, they first need to acquire critical linguistic awareness a…
Social Networks and Local Incorporation-Grounding High-skilled Migrants in Two German Cities
The global connection of production and labour markets intensifies circular migration patterns and mobile lifestyles. Highly qualified migrants play an increasingly prominent role as illustrated by policy initiatives to recruit skilled professionals. So far there is little evidence about the relationship between mobile groups and urban development processes. It remains unclear to what extent mobile lifestyles and the maintenance of transnational …
I don’t care about the city
Many cities in industrialized countries engage in competition for talent. While scholars have produced rich accounts of why some cities are better equipped than others in attracting skilled workers, the individual decision-making and agency of this group remains understudied. Contributing to this debate we examine how skilled professionals make their decisions in favour of locations. It focuses on the role of connections, which comprise social ne…
I’m also trying to figure out the identity of my students.’ – teachers’ multilingual identity negotiation in the heritage language classroom
This study investigates the interplay among identity, language, and culture of six heritage language (HL) teachers at a Greek school in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. It applies the concept of participative multilingual identity construction and argues that in order for teachers to provide agency and opportunities to their students to engage in (multilingual) identity education, they first need to acquire critical linguistic awareness a…
Gender in the History of Early Modern Political Thought
In the history of early modern political thought, gender is not well established as a subject. It seems that early modern politics and its philosophical underpinnings are characterized by an exclusion of women from the political sphere. This article shows that it is indeed possible to write a gendered history of early modern political thought that transcends questions of the structural exclusion of women from political participation. Through a nu…
Comparative regionalism cases of artificial intelligence governance in education
This article is a comparative examination of how the European Union's (EU) emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) regulatory framework can provide guidance for the development of AI governance despite being perceived as an imposition on other regions such as the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The Caribbean stands at an intersection of technological evolution, confronting the essential challenges of navigating AI's expansion with an ethos of inclus…
Identity, Power, and Prestige in Switzerland's Multilingual Education
Grischun 1In the case of Switzerland, the Swiss Federal Constitution "ensure[s] that [the Confederation] treats the four national Swiss languages equally" (LangA, Art. 3, a, 2017).According to the Cambridge Dictionary, 'equality' means "the right of different groups of people to have a similar social position and receive the same treatment," for the purpose of this study, based on their linguistic repertoire. 2Despite the equal legal basis of Swi…
I’m Always in This Conflict” – Students’ Struggle of Plurilingual Identity Expression, Linguistic Insecurity, and Assimilation in Switzerland’s Higher Education
This article examines the connection among university students’ lived experiences of language, ideologies, and linguistic repertoires through visual and verbal representations. It demonstrates that linguistic repertoires are crucial for students’ identities, yet impeded by restricting, homogenizing policies, which reproduce the “monolingual habitus” even in officially multilingual contexts. It advocates multilingualism in Switzerland’s higher edu…
Jean Bodin on Oeconomics and Politics
Challenging the common conception of Jean Bodin as an 'anti-Aristotelian' thinker, this article places Bodin's political thought in the context of oeconomics-the science, or art of the household-as it had developed in medieval and Renaissance commentaries on Aristotle's practical philosophy. The article argues that he thereby took part in a longstanding discussion in European political thought which saw the household as possessing a political dim…
Children’s agency in interactions
Although Switzerland is a plurilingual country, most early education and care (ECEC) institutions are monolingual. Yet, new institutions have recently established English as a second language of instruction, addressing economically advantaged families. Despite the growing body of international research on language policy and practice in multilingual ECEC, only few have addressed such ‘privileged’ institutions, and the role children play in dealin…
Que lugar é este
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Rethinking Masculinity and Femininity in Niccolò Machiavelli’s Political Thought
Niccol Machiavelli's (1469-1527) work, like that of perhaps no other political thinker of his time, has been analysed for its relevance to notions of gender. 1 Machiavelli's theory is portrayed -even by those scholars who claim to have no particular interest in the gender question -as being quintessentially masculine; his politics appear to be constructed around strict dichotomies of virtuous masculinity against the abhorrence of that which is fe…
Antike“ und „Mittelalter“ in der politischen Philosophie der „Renaissance“
In her famous essay "Did Women have a Renaissance?" Joan Kelly-Gadol contended that "there was no Renaissance for women - at least, not during the Renaissance". For Kelly-Gadol it was the ideology of Renaissance civic humanism that constructed the household as an inferior female domain to the superior political and public world of men. Civic humanism, she argued, was a philosophy built upon women's "domestic imprisonment" and their exclusion from…
Jean Bodin on Oeconomics and Politics
Challenging the common conception of Jean Bodin as an 'anti-Aristotelian' thinker, this article places Bodin's political thought in the context of oeconomics-the science, or art of the household-as it had developed in medieval and Renaissance commentaries on Aristotle's practical philosophy. The article argues that he thereby took part in a longstanding discussion in European political thought which saw the household as possessing a political dim…
Social Networks and Local Incorporation-Grounding High-skilled Migrants in Two German Cities
The global connection of production and labour markets intensifies circular migration patterns and mobile lifestyles. Highly qualified migrants play an increasingly prominent role as illustrated by policy initiatives to recruit skilled professionals. So far there is little evidence about the relationship between mobile groups and urban development processes. It remains unclear to what extent mobile lifestyles and the maintenance of transnational …
On Women and Beasts
We are used to the view that historically “what counted as fully human always depended ... on a sharp contrast with ‘the animal’.” As a consequence , “[w]omen and slaves, in being denied full humanity, were therefore necessarily partaking in animal nature.” Questioning this view, this essay traces how some early modern thinkers defined the relationship of human beings to animals generally, and, more particularly, how they saw the relationship of …
Gender in the History of Early Modern Political Thought
In the history of early modern political thought, gender is not well established as a subject. It seems that early modern politics and its philosophical underpinnings are characterized by an exclusion of women from the political sphere. This article shows that it is indeed possible to write a gendered history of early modern political thought that transcends questions of the structural exclusion of women from political participation. Through a nu…
I don’t care about the city
Many cities in industrialized countries engage in competition for talent. While scholars have produced rich accounts of why some cities are better equipped than others in attracting skilled workers, the individual decision-making and agency of this group remains understudied. Contributing to this debate we examine how skilled professionals make their decisions in favour of locations. It focuses on the role of connections, which comprise social ne…
Zwischen Mobilität und Sesshaftigkeit
Zwischen Netz und Nachbarschaft Die sozialräumliche Wirkung digitaler Medien im Kontext antipluralistischer Haltungen und politischer Polarisierung
Die Digitalisierung des Zusammenlebens
CSR Practices and the Political Corporation in Law
In her article ‘Corporate Social Responsibility: The Great Shell Game’, Ellen Hertz suggests that there is an inherent danger of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to obscure the public/private divide. By means of strategically engaging with public interests, corporate CSR practices – that according to Hertz are practices deriving from the market – are able ‘to preempt and discredit attempts to define and carry out policies designed to protect…
Media Review of “Entre Les Murs (the Class)” and “The Hate U Give”
How to support students to intellectually and emotionally untangle and grapple with systemic oppression in education is the subject of this media review. Especially for students carrying privilege
Example of best practice
School leaders, second only to classroom teachers, are catalysts for student success (Leithwood et al. 2006; Bush 2018). However, many school leaders around the world have not been professionally p
I’m Always in This Conflict” – Students’ Struggle of Plurilingual Identity Expression, Linguistic Insecurity, and Assimilation in Switzerland’s Higher Education
This article examines the connection among university students’ lived experiences of language, ideologies, and linguistic repertoires through visual and verbal representations. It demonstrates that linguistic repertoires are crucial for students’ identities, yet impeded by restricting, homogenizing policies, which reproduce the “monolingual habitus” even in officially multilingual contexts. It advocates multilingualism in Switzerland’s higher edu…
Establishing multiple languages in early childhood. Heritage languages and language hierarchies in German-English daycare centers in Switzerland
The number of conceptually bilingual daycare centers has been steadily increasing in Switzerland, a traditionally multilingual country. Yet, the focus on the languages introduced in these institutions has largely remained on one national language – and English. We look at how English and – in our case – German are employed in daycare centers and how their prioritization leads to a reproduction and legitimization of language hierarchies. Drawing o…
I’m also trying to figure out the identity of my students.’ – teachers’ multilingual identity negotiation in the heritage language classroom
This study investigates the interplay among identity, language, and culture of six heritage language (HL) teachers at a Greek school in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. It applies the concept of participative multilingual identity construction and argues that in order for teachers to provide agency and opportunities to their students to engage in (multilingual) identity education, they first need to acquire critical linguistic awareness a…
Appendix A
Appendix D
Findings
Conclusion
Education, Languages, and Power
Appendix C
Appendix B
Methodology
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