Opening book details…
Can I read Prophesying success in the higher education system of multilingual Switzerland on EtoBox?
Prophesying success in the higher education system of multilingual Switzerland by Martina Zimmermann is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Prophesying success in the higher education system of multilingual Switzerland about?
This paper investigates the conditions under which stakeholders in the higher education system in multilingual Switzerland link expectations of students' future economic to the development of human capital. Drawing on ethnographic data collected in a project focusing on mobile students crossing linguistic borders within Switzerland, I examine how this expected success in the imagined future is conceptualized, i. e. what kind of learning and which multilingual repertoires are part of the prophesying marketing discourse produced by universities and students alike. I explore how dominant language ideologies are reproduced and transferred into a speculative future, without any adjustment to account for changing market conditions. Juxtaposing institutional and individual discourse, I first argue that understandings of language ideologies are shared, seen as promotional assets translatable into the imagined but unchallenged future of which students as well as universities have a joint vision. Second, I suggest that investigating dominant visions of the future sheds light on which languages are chosen to be taught/learnt at tertiary level and how this offer mirrors the economized perspect
Who reads Prophesying success in the higher education system of multilingual Switzerland?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Arts and Humanities.
- Author
- Martina Zimmermann
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)