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Niklaus Reichle
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Dr.
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Reichle
First name
Niklaus
Email
niklaus.reichle@unisg.ch
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+41 71 224 3512
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PublicationCultural precariousness. Becoming a Minority and the Uneasiness of Transformation( 2021)Joubert, AbrahamType: conference paper
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PublicationFitting Into Academia. An Interpretive Approach to the Study of Inequalities in Higher Education( 2015-08-27)In this conceptual paper, we aim to develop an interpretive research agenda for the study of a higher education institution that is situated in a context marked by distinct social inequalities. The institution of interest operates in a ‘western' tradition of academia and scientific research, but draws many students from non-academic families, with educational biographies in disadvantaged institutions, and/or with an ethnocultural background in which ‘western' academia is not rooted. These students struggle with what could be called a partial ‘misfit' in the academic field. Research that examines situations in which such ‘structural' inequalities are enacted often employs concepts in the tradition of Pierre Bourdieu (habitus, field) and Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum (capabilities). To theoretically ground our interpretive research agenda, we intend to tentatively translate the concepts of habitus, field and capabilities to the sociology of knowledge in the tradition of Alfred Schütz, Thomas Luckmann and Peter L. Berger. We aim at developing a conceptual apparatus capable of distinguishing different genres of knowledge that are relevant for a student's (mis)fit in the academic field, with a particular focus on habitualized knowledge and ‘learning' in terms of socialization into academic plausibility and opportunity structures. Moreover, we are interested in what favors or hinders the distribution or development of these specific genres of knowledge and hence influences to a certain degree the above mentioned fit.Type: conference paper
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PublicationReshaping tertiary education in the tiny publics of academia : An interpretive approach to knowledge genres and social inequalities in higher education( 2015-06-04)This conceptual paper is concerned with developing a interpretive research agenda for the study of a higher education institution that is situated in a context marked by distinct social inequalities, many of which are linked to a history of racial segregation. The institution of interest operates in a ‘western’ tradition of academia and scientific research, but draws many students from non-academic families, with educational biographies in disadvantaged institutions, and/or with an ethnocultural background in which ‘western’ academia is not rooted. These students struggle with what could be called a partial ‘misfit’ in the academic field. Current debates about the education system in which the respective institution is situated not only discuss how to ‘overcome’ such misfits from the individual student’s perspective, but also focus on the need to reshape the culture of educational institutions in order to correspond to the ethno-racial background of the students. Hence, the everyday reality of tertiary education constitutes a tiny public in which discourses compete for different definitions of what the nature of the academic culture and the therewith connected ‘problems’ are and how they are to be ‘remedied’. Amongst a range of diverse perspectives, this entails on the one hand a focus on the ‘transparent whiteness’ of the instructional approach, instructions which on the other hand largely concern natural science subjects often underpinned by an (implicit) claim of culture-independent validity of the discipline’s established knowledge. The paper will present a first attempt to develop a conceptual interpretive framework capable of analyzing these everyday discourses involved in framing (mis)fits in academia and in reshaping educational practices and institution.Type: conference paper
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PublicationWenn Feld und Welt zusammenfällt. Wissenssoziologische Diskursethno-graphie und die ethnographische Erforschung von Diskursen in lokalen Kontexten(Springer VS, )
;Eisewicht, PaulSchindler, LarissaType: book section -
PublicationDie Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Soziologie (SGS)(Springer Fachmedien, 2018-01)
;Moebius, StephanPloder, Andrea