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This collection of articles on language teaching and language acquisition theories includes: "Enseignement des langues et theories de l'acquisition. Introduction au colloque" ("Language Teaching and Theories of Acquisition. Introduction to the Colloquium") (Rene Richterich); "Apprendre une langue dans l'interaction verbale" ("Language Learning in Verbal Interaction") (Bernard Py); "Processus cognitifs de base dans l'acquisition des langues" ("Basic Cognitive Processes in the Acquisition of Languages") (Daniel Gaonac'h); "L'acquisition du langage: comparer pour generaliser" ("The Acquisition of Language: Comparing for Generalization") (Michele Kail); "Approches comparatives dans l'acquisition des langues: generalisations et applications" ("Comparative Approaches to Language Acquisition: Generalizations and Applications") (Clive Perdue); "Fremdsprachenunterricht auf wissenschaftlicher Grundlage" ("Foreign Language Teaching and Scientific Foundations") (Wolfgang Butzkamm); "Table ronde" ("Round Table") (Anne-Claude Berthoud); and "Recherche et theories en acquisition des langues: quel interet pour les enseignant-e-s?" ("Research and Theories in Language Acquisition: What Interest for Teachers?") (Susanne Wokusch). Individual papers contain references. (MSE)

During the Second World War, refugees in Switzerland were largely housed in work camps and homes for refugees that were under the supervision of the Central Administration for Work Camps (ZL). Camp life was a defining experience for many refugees. In 1943, Peter Betsche-Reber worked for a few months as director of a home for refugees in Bellevue, Neuhausen. His private papers from this time give insight into his work with refugees, work which not only affected him but also served as practical experience he used, following his wishes, to later find employment doing social work. His social commitment was also visible in his work at this home, as he became active on behalf of individuals and also helped organize leisure activities there. He was opposed both politically and by the ZL. For personal reasons, he stopped working as director after a few months but continued to support refugees both through the lectures he gave and by continuing to help individual refugees he had met. A microhistorical approach supplements previous research as well as the reports of others who had helped refugees in Switzerland during the Second World War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses the role of religion, as a subject taught in schools, from a curricular perspective. Based on the teaching materials in use in the Canton of Solothurn around 1800, I argue that education in religion is - in the tradition of curriculum studies - particularly suited for reconstructing the historical expectations placed on education. First, it is evident that the teaching materials in use were meant not just for instructing schoolchildren about religion but were also meant to educate teachers. Second, and precisely because classes in subjects such as reading or writing used religious material, religion must be understood as an expression of socially and culturally dominant expectations, quite apart from what was required of education in a curricular sense. By the end of the 18th century, religion was the dominant language used for expressing normative expectations - one which far transcended the classes explicitly devoted to it as a subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article lists various ongoing and upcoming art exhibitions across different venues in Switzerland, including "Stranger in the Village," "Let's fêtes galantes!," and "Die Diversität des Widerstands."

The article reviews several art exhibitions to be held in Switzerland from November 2023 to January 2024 including "Video Window - Thrill Me" by artist, Bruno Zgraggen; "Die Leinwand beschreiben – Von der Literatur zum Film und zurück" and "Topografien der Räume - Retrospektive Therese Weber".

The article lists the exhibitions across Switzerland, featuring diverse venues such as Aarau Aargauer Kunsthaus, Forum Schlossplatz, and Aurora Muse, presenting captivating shows like "Sammlung 23," "Stranger in the Village," "remise! Aurora Muse".

The article reviews multiple art fairs, including "BRAFA Art Fair", in Brussels, Belgium, from January 28 to February 4, 2024; "artgenève" Geneva, Switzerland, January 25 to January 28, 2024, and "Art Karlsruhe", from February 22 to February 25, 2024.

The article offers art news briefs from Switzerland, as of September 2021. The summer photography festival Rencontres d'Arles was held in 2020 by photographer Christoph Wiesner on the topic "Summer of Fireflies". The animation film festival Fantoche Baden was held in September 2021. The Swiss Art Awards, which was cancelled in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic, will be held in 2021 by the Federal Art Commission.

This collection of articles on second language learning in a multilingual environment includes: "Franzosisch-Deutsch: Zweisprachiges Lernen au der Sekundarstufe 1" (French-German: Learning Two Languages at Secondary School, Level 1) (Otto Stern, Brigit Eriksson, Christine Le Pape, Hans Reutener, Cecilia Serra Oesch); "Das Projekt 'Zweitsprachunterricht im obligatorischen Schulsystem': Konzept, empirische Daten und erste Ergebnisse" (Second Language Learning in the Official School System) (Hansmartin Zimmermann, Iwar Werlen); "La pluralite des contextes et des langues: une approche interactionnelle de l'acquisition" (Multiplicity of Contexts and of Languages: An Interactional Approach to Acquisition) (Laurent Gajo, Petra Koch, Lorenza Mondada); "Apprentissage du francais en Suisse alemanique: des systemes educatifs aux situations extra-scolaires" (French Language Learning in German Switzerland: From Educational Systems to Out-of-School Situations) (Simona Pekarek, Victor Saudan, Georges Ludi); "Competences orthographiques et taches d'ecriture" (Orthographic Competence and Writing Tasks) (Linda Allal, Laurence Rieben, Yviane Rouiller); "Description and Assessment of Foreign Language Learning Proficiency in the Swiss Educational System" (Brian North); and "A propos des methodes communicatives: la transposition didactique en FLS" (A Propos of Communicative Methods: Instructional Transposition in French as a Second Language) (Itziar Plazaola Giger). Individual papers contain references. (MSE)

This article analyzes conflicts between the German- and French-speaking parts of Switzerland within the ice hockey community of the 1950s and 60s and puts them into a broader cultural context.The leadership of the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation, dominated by German-speaking members and backed by the majority of German- speaking clubs, pursued a strict anti-professionalism policy, banned foreign players, most notably Canadians, from playing in the National League between 1959 and 1970, tried to reduce contacts with the Eastern Bloc to a minimum and in 1962 sacked the coach of the national team on the grounds of his membership in the communist Party of Labour.The French-speaking clubs, on the other hand, were more open regarding commercialization and professionalization, and in favour of both the deployment of Canadian players and contacts with the Eastern Bloc. It is argued that these differences can be seen as a prism of post-war relations between Switzerland's two largest linguistic groups. Not only were the different stances regarding commercial ice hockey, the deployment of foreigners and contacts with communists backed by a large majority of the press of the respective language group, they also correlate with findings in political history. Hence the article concludes that the 'roesti-divide' in ice hockey highlights the two linguistic groups' different positions within the general dialectics between tradition and modernity, isolation and openness that previous research has established as the main characteristics of Switzerland in the 50s and early 60s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses history of Italian women migrants' socio-political activities in Switzerland between 1960s and 1970s. Various topics discussed include post-war migration from Italy to Switzerland, statistics of male and female migrants and activities of women in the migrant organization Federazione delle Colonie Libéré Italiane.

The article focuses on how to promote cultural awareness in rural areas. The article discusses rural art projects by artist such as Martin Breindl, who produced illustrations that were exhibited in the town hall of Prättigau, Switzerland and Richard Frankenberger, who has created art projects in Pischelsdorf, Austria. The article also discusses the potential effects of art projects on regional development and the organization FLUSS: NÖ Initiative für Foto- und Medienkunst.

Objective: For the public the image of psychopharmacological drugs is identical with that of minor tranquilizers. The way of describing and portraying these drugs in the media therefore is of general interest., Method: Ten annual volumes of six German language opinion leading daily and weekly papers which exist on CD-Rom in full text editions are screened for the key word "minor tranquilizer". The articles identified are analyzed formally quantatively and qualitatively., Results: The ten annual volumes analyzed contained 45 articles in which tranquilizers were mentioned (4.5 per annual volume). The key words were found in all sections of the papers, most often, however, in the cultural section, followed by the science section. Regarding the themes medicine and law were in the first position (one third), but society, arts and culture and politics contained even more articles dealing with the key word minor tranquilizer. For fifth of the articles only mentioned the key word. Only once minor tranquilizers are the main topic of the article. Tranquilizers are valued negatively ten times as often as they are valued positively. In two fifth of the articles the term is employed as a metaphor. Even in this context minor tranquilizers are valued negatively (10:1)., Conclusions: Three fourth of the articles, employing the term in the non metaphorical way, deal with abuse and dependency. The public image of minor tranquilizers in the media is mainly characterized by their potency to cause dependency.

Newspapers reports on ECT are extremely biased. A quantitative analysis of four German and Swiss papers demonstrates impressingly the change of meaning of synonymous terms like "Elektroschock" and "Schocktherapie" which refer to torture and brutal reforms of Eastern European communist economies.