The Future of Education

Edition 14

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Gabriella Brigitte Klein

Institution: University of Perugia (retired) - Key & Key Communications

Country: Italy

Gabriella B. Klein PhD has been associate professor of Linguistics at the University of Perugia (Italy) till 2017. As professor for Intercultural Communication she is now collaborating with The Umbra Institute founded in 1999 in Perugia in cooperation with Arcadia University as a center for higher education offering academic programs for students of U.S. colleges and universities. Further, she is vice-president of Key & Key Communications, a non-profit organisation founded in 1994 and active in the areas of visual and interpersonal communication research and adult education, committed to migrants’ integration, recognition of diversity, anti-discrimination and social cohesion in an intercultural perspective. She is also active as communication trainer for adults in private and public sectors. In 2009 she became Let Me Learn® Consultant (“Course I of Let Me Learn® Accelerated Training”, scientific direction: Colin Calleja, University of Malta; in cooperation with University of Tarragona/Spain).

Her research focuses on different sociolinguistic fields such as Language Policy (1986 La politica linguistica del fascismo. Bologna: il Mulino; the archive materials of the research are available at the Accademia della Crusca, Florence); Urban Sociolinguistics (she conducted and published a long-term field research in Naples/Italy with the sociologist Enrica Amaturo 1995: La città nei discorsi e nell’immaginario giovanile. Una ricerca socio-linguistica a Napoli. Galatina, Lecce: Congedo); Conversation Analysis (2002 with Isabella Paoletti In & Out. Procedure conversazionali e strategie comunicative di inclusione e di esclusione. Napoli: ESI; 2014 with Koffi M. Dossou and Sergio Pasquandrea: “Embodying epistemicity: Negotiating (un)certainty through semiotic objects”. In: Andrzej Zuczkowski / Ramona Bongelli / Ilaria Riccioni / Carla Canestrari (eds.). Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins: 223-246). In 2006 she published an introduction into sociolinguistics for Italian students: Nozioni e strumenti di sociolinguistica. Roma: ARACNE.

Since 2005 she has been coordinating several European projects revolving around intercultural communication issues and adult education applying the Let Me Learn process®:
• SPICES - Social Promotion of Intercultural Communication Expertise and Skills (224945-CP-1-2005-1-IT-GRUNDTVIG-G11), receiving in 2006 the European Label for initiatives promoting language teaching and learning and in 2008 the Silver Award for Quality in Mobility [2007 co-author and ed. of: SPICES GUIDELINES. A training methodology for intercultural communication in institutional settings. Perugia: Key & Key Communications]
• e-SPICES - electronic Social Promotion of Intercultural Communication Expertise and Skills (2008-1-IT2-GRU06-00547 1)
• BRIDGE-IT - Be Relevant to Intercultural Diversity Generation in Europe – Integration Team (510101-LLP-1-2010-1-IT-GRUNDTVIG-GMP), http://bridge-it.communicationproject.eu [2014 with Anna Szczepaniak-Kozak: “L2 textbook evaluation in view of L2 adult learners’ real communication needs: a study of bureaucratic-institutional communication skills“. In: Emilia Wąsikiewicz-Firlej / Hadrian Aleksander Lankiewicz / Anna Szczepaniak-Kozak (eds.). Culture and Creativity in Discourse Studies and Foreign Language Pedagogy. Piła: PWSZ: 93-115]
• RADAR - Regulating AntiDiscrimination and AntiRacism (Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Programme JUST/2013/FRAC/AG/6271), http://win.radar.communicationproject.eu/web/, receiving in 2016 the my-VITA Award for an exceptionally innovative project in the field of validation of non-formal and informal learning and in 2019 the my-VITA Award for innovation in Continuing Professional Development of Adult Education [2016 with Koffi M. Dossou: RADAR Guidelines. Understanding hate-oriented communication and tools for anti-hate communication strategies in an intercultural dimension. Deruta/Perugia: Key & Key Communications; 2018 Applied Linguistics to Identify and Contrast Racist ‘Hate Speech’: Cases from the English and Italian Language”, ALRJ, 2(3): 1–6; https://www.journalagent.com/alrj/pdfs/ALRJ_2_3_1_16.pdf.

Dr. Klein has been studying in Freiburg/FRG (BA), Paris (Sorbonne), Aix-en-Provence/France and Florence/Italy where she received the title dottore in lettere (1974). After 6 years of fellowship from the Italian National Council of Research (CNR) she earned, in 1982, the PhD by the Kultusministerium (Ministry of Education and Culture) of Baden-Wuerttemberg/FRG, starting her academic career as tenured researcher in Linguistics in Italy. She has been teaching General Linguistics for about 10 years at the University Federico II of Naples, becoming later associate professor of Linguistics at the state University of Perugia where she was teaching mainly Sociolinguistics.

Areas of expertise: Sociolinguistics, Conversation Analysis, Urban Sociolinguistics, intercultural communication, Language Policy, machine translation, international project planning and scientific coordination.

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