Staff Profile

I joined the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences (ECLS) at Newcastle University in August 2022, as a Lecturer in Education. 

Prior to this, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Schoolpol project, at the University of Oxford. In 2018, I was awarded a post-doctoral grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation to conduct an historical-comparative project on the education policy and politics of the post-war European far right – Education vs Liberal Democracy. For this project, I worked in archives across Western Europe and held visiting fellowships at the European University Institute in Florence, Sciences Po in Paris, and the University of Oxford. 

I hold a PhD in Education from the University of Zurich. My doctoral dissertation examined the historical politics of Swiss language education. The research shows the impact educational stakeholders such as parents and teachers can have on education and curriculum legislation – even when highly politicised topics such as language education in multilingual contexts are concerned.

My work revolves around the history and politics of education. I am particularly interested in how ideologies, professional interests, and cultural diversity interact to shape education policy, with a specific focus on their impact on social and cultural inequalities.

• Education against liberal democracy: far-right education policy and politics
• The politics of post-WW II education reform

• Articles

  • Gingrich J, Giudici A. Education as Tool of Social Equality?. Social Policy & Administration 2023, 57(2), 172-188.
  • Giudici A, Gingrich J, Chevalier T, Haslberger M. Center-Right Parties and Post-War Secondary Education. Comparative Politics 2022, Epub ahead of print.
  • Giudici A. Teacher politics bottom-up: theorising the impact of micro-politics on policy generation. Journal of Education Policy 2021, 36(6), 801-821.
  • Giudici A. Seeds of authoritarian opposition: Far-right education politics in post-war Europe. European Education Research Journal 2021, 20(2), 121-142.
  • Giudici A, Ruoss T. How to educate an authoritarian society: conflicting views on school reform for a fascist society in interwar Switzerland. Paedagogica Historica 2020, 56(5), 605-623.
  • Giudici A, Ruoss T, Van Ruyskensvelde S. Educating the Volksgemeinschaft: authoritarian ideals and school reforms in Europe’s fascist era. Paedagogica Historica 2020, 56(5), 569-571.
  • Giudici A, Masoni G, Ruoss T. Nativist authoritarian far-right flirtations with progressive education: exploring the relationship in interwar Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Educational Research 2019, 41(2), 386-403.
  • Giudici A, Grizelj S. National unity in cultural diversity: how national and linguistic identities affected Swiss language curricula (1914–1961). Paedagogica Historica 2017, 53(1-2), 137-154.

• Authored Book

  • Giudici A. Explaining Swiss language education policy [PhD Thesis]. Zürich: University of Zürich, 2019.

• Book Chapters

  • Gingrich J, Giudici A, McArthur D. The Politics of Equality in Secondary Education Across Wealthy Post-War Democracies. In: Paola Mattei, Xavier Dumay, Eric Mangez, and Jacqueline Behrend, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Education and Globalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, pp.663-656.
  • Giudici A. Nationalism and the Curriculum: Analytical and Methodological Considerations. In: Trifonas P; Jagger S, ed. Handbook of Curriculum Theory and Research. Cham: Springer, 2023.
  • Giudici A. HTL in various host countries and linkage with their school systems: overview, models. In: Schader, B, ed. Foundations and backgrounds. Zurich: Center for International Projects in Education, 2016, pp.148-156.

• Edited Book

  • Giudici A, Ronza R, Pini V, ed. Il plurilinguismo svizzero e la sfida dell'inglese. Riflessioni dal laboratorio elvetico a confronto con l'Europa. Locarno: Dadò, 2020. In Preparation.