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Prophesying success in the higher education system of multilingual Switzerland
Multilingua ( IF 1.667 ) Pub Date : 2019-12-18 , DOI: 10.1515/multi-2019-0037
Martina Zimmermann 1
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Abstract 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 perspective adopted in the higher education system. Finally, I conclude that considering time as an analytical dimension contributes to our understanding of how prophesies of the multilingual (and thus marketable) self are discursively constructed in the here and now, and are dominated by certain interests, and I raise the question whether the successful visions we are striving for are ever to be reached in a neoliberal logic in line with the pressure of continuously becoming.

中文翻译:

多语种瑞士高等教育系统的成功预言

摘要本文研究了瑞士多语种高等教育系统中的利益相关者将学生对未来经济的期望与人力资本发展联系起来的条件。利用在一个针对在瑞士境内跨语言边界的流动学生的项目中收集的人种学数据,我研究了如何在想象中的未来中实现预期的成功,即:e。什么样的学习方法以及使用多种语言的曲目是大学和学生所用的预言性营销话语的一部分。我探讨了主流语言意识形态如何在不进行任何调整以适应不断变化的市场条件的情况下被复制并转移到投机性的未来。将机构和个人话语并列,首先,我认为对语言意识形态的理解是共享的,被视为可以转化为想象中但没有挑战的未来的推广资产,这是学生和大学的共同愿景。其次,我建议,对未来的主流观点进行调查,可以了解选择哪种语言来高等教育/选择哪种语言,以及这种提供方式如何反映高等教育体系中采用的经济观点。最后,我得出结论,将时间视为一种分析维度有助于我们理解多语言(因而可销售)的自我的预言如何在此时此地被话语建构,并被某些利益所支配,
更新日期:2019-12-18
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