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Tenured associate professors | General and Intercultural Education

Barbara Gross

Barbara.Gross@unibz.it

+39 0472 014274

BX A3.00
Faculty of Education
Regensburger Allee 16 - viale Ratisbona, 16
39042
Brixen-Bressanone
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Tuesday, 09:00 - 10:00
nach Vereinbarung/su appuntamento/by arrangement: barbara.gross@unibz.it
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Ph.D. in General Pedagogy, Social Pedagogy and General Education

Research interests:
- Linguistic-cultural diversity in institutions and society
- (In)equity in education and heterogeneity in kindergarten and primary school
- Intercultural education
- Intersectionality
- Internationalization of educational science

Courses

Comparative Education

12404C · M-PED/02 · 5 year master degree in Primary Education - German section · DE

General Pedagogy

64167A · M-PED/01 · Bachelor for Social Education · DE

Intercultural Education

12402A · M-PED/01 · 5 year master degree in Primary Education - German section · DE

Intercultural Education (Lab.)

12402B · M-PED/01 · 5 year master degree in Primary Education - German section · DE

Social Pedagogy

64167B · M-PED/01 · Bachelor for Social Education · DE

Discover more about Barbara Gross

Inclusion Diversity

Nuove Indicazioni Nazionali: quale idea di scuola inclusiva ed interculturale?

L'intervento di Heidrun Demo e Barbara Gross, docenti della Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, sul…

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Selected publications

Kelly, P., Hofbauer, S., & Gross, B. (2021). Renegotiating the public good: Responding to the first wave of COVID-19 in England, Germany and Italy. European Educational Research Journal, 1-26. doi: 10.1177/14749041211030065
Gross, B., Hansen, A., Duarte, J., García-Jiménez, E., McMonagle, S., Szelei, N., & Pinho, A.S. (2021). Expert Evaluation on Urgent Research on Heritage Language Education: A Comparative Study in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. Journa
Gross, B., & Mastellotto, L. (2021). Approaches to Diversity: Tracing Multilingualism in Teacher Education in South Tyrol, Italy. In M. Wernicke, S. Hammer, A. Hansen & T. Schroedler (Eds.), Preparing Teachers to Work with Multilingual Learners (pp. 123-1
Gross, B. (2021). Il ruolo pedagogico dell'insegnamento della lingua d’origine nelle scuole pubbliche: risultati di interviste semi-strutturate con insegnanti e stakeholder. Educazione Interculturale, 19(2), 129-141. doi: 10.6092/issn.2420-8175/13904
Gross, B. (2021). Educare per una società equa: l’educazione civica nella prospettiva della pedagogia interculturale e della cittadinanza. Pedagogia Oggi, 19(2), 71-78.
Bellacicco, R. & Gross, B. (2021). Disabilità, DSA e background migratorio nei futuri insegnanti: i benefici e il dilemma dell’accesso all’università. Studium Educationis XXII(2), 18-27.
Gross, B. (2022). Eterogeneità e diseguaglianze educative. Prospettive dalla Pedagogia interculturale. Milano: FrancoAngeli.
Gross, B., Hofbauer, S. & Keiner, E. (2022). The “Science of Education” – Different Terms, Concepts, Cultures and Epistemologies? A Contribution to a Social Epistemology. SPES – Rivista di Politica, Educazione e Storia, XV(16), pp. 19-37.
Gross, B. & Groos, M. (2023). Diversity-sensitive educational policies and practices in ECEC in Germany. Studium Educationis, XXIV(2). doi: 10.7346/SE-022023-14.
Messina Dahlberg, G., & Gross, B. (2024). Cultural-linguistic diversity in Italy and Sweden? A sociomaterial analysis of policies for heritage language education. Intercultural Education, 35(2), 1-22 (online first). https://doi.org/10.1080/14675986.2024.2
Karlics, K., Hofbauer, S., Gross, B., & Keiner, E. (2024). Erziehungswissenschaftliche Kommunikationskulturen im Vergleich: Deutschland – Italien in bibliometrischer Perspektive. Bildung und Erziehung, 77, 57-78.
Gross, B. (2024). Dall’io al noi: ripensare l’equità socio-ecologica nelle istituzioni educative. In B. Gross & S. Nanni (Eds.), Dall’io al noi. I contributi della Pedagogia per futuri (post)umani (pp. 33-44). Zeroseiup.
Gross, B., & Portera, A. (2025). Intersectionality in intercultural education and intercultural educational research. Intercultural Education, 36(4), 1-5 (online first). https://doi.org/10.1080/14675986.2025.2488711
Gross, B. (2025). “We only take Ukrainians, we do not take the other rabble” – the intersectional construction of diversity. Belonging, inclusion and exclusion in educational institutions. Intercultural Education, 36(4), 1-18 (online first). https://doi.org/10.1080/14675986.2025.2483623
Gross, B., Hug, T., & Stadler-Altmann, U. (2025). Knowledge Diversity at Universities? A critical analysis of changing post-digital knowledge ecologies using examples from Austria, Germany, and Italy. Seminar.net, 21(1), 1-18 (open access). https://doi.org/10.7577/seminar.6286
Gross, B., Lindblad, S., Keiner, E., Samuelsson, K., & Popkewitz, T. S. (2025). Nodes and Nets in Educational Research Communication and Organization - An International Mapping. In I. Gogolin, S. Dippenaar, L. Ebersöhn, M.Y. Eryaman & G. Jover, Transforming Educational Research. Realizing Equity and Social Justice Worldwide (1st ed., pp. 185–211). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003197171-13
Gross, B. (2024). Die Marginalität des Herkunftssprachlichen Unterrichts und Lehrpersonals aus der Perspektive verschiedener Bildungsakteur*innen: ein migrationspädagogisches Spannungsfeld in Italien. In S. Guldenschuh, M. Weichselbaum, M. Döll, A. Gouma, & İ. Dirim (Eds.), Migrationspädagogische Perspektiven auf den erst-/herkunfts-/mutter-sprachlichen Unterricht (pp. 3-25). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-45327-5
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