This paper will offer observations on the implementation of the educational practices of dialogic literary gathering and reading buddies at the 66th Philip Stanislavov School, Sofia, Bulgaria in the context of the REFUGE-ED project. It will offer case studies from different high school classes where refugee children, as well as children with mixed ethnic backgrounds […]
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Unaccompanied Foreign Minors in Bulgaria: In the Limbo between the New and Old Homes
This paper aims to contribute to our understanding of how children and young people adapt and move when placed in Safety Zones for unaccompanied minors in two RRCs in Sofia – Voenna Rampa and Ovcha Kupel. The study presents the findings of the implementation process led by a team of representatives from the REFUGE-ED project […]
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Interactive processes and practices contributing to the mental health of unaccompanied refugee children from Afghanistan
The article discusses the work carried out by a team of representatives from the REFUGE-ED project and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) with unaccompanied minors (UAMs) from Afghanistan. The children were accommodated in the Safety Zone, which caters to unaccompanied minors seeking international protection, at the Registration and Reception Center ‘Voenna Rampa’ of the […]
“If they made it, why not me?” increasing educational expectations of Roma and Moroccan immigrant families in Spain through family education
Educational Impact Evaluation of Professional Development of In-Service Teachers: The Case of the Dialogic Pedagogical Gatherings at Valencia “On Giants’ Shoulders”
Inclusivity, friendship and language learning: boosting collaboration in interactive groups
In linguistically diverse contexts, language learning and the building of quality relationships are key – and intertwined – educational goals. These aspects are particularly important in learning communities where the language of instruction may represent an additional language for most students. It is, therefore, essential to identify activities that promote quality interactions in the language […]
Dialogic literary gatherings: A systematic review of evidence to overcome social and educational inequalities
More than a decade after publications on Dialogic Literary Gatherings in indexed peer-review journals started, a systematic review that gathered the findings was necessary to provide further insight for future educational research, practice, and policymaking. The purpose of the present systematic review was to gather the existing evidence on the social, educational, and learning impact […]
Dialogic popular education in Spain and its impact on society, educational and social theory, and European research.
Dialogic popular education developed by La Verneda-Sant Martí School for Adults in Spain, influenced by the work of Paulo Freire, has had a range of significant social and educational impacts. Starting with an emancipatory approach to eradicate oppression, this dialogic popular education resisted and has transformed aspects of the Spanish educational sphere despite ongoing hindrances […]
How Can the Roma Deal with the Health and Social Crisis Generated by the COVID-19 Pandemic? Inequalities
The Roma is the most excluded non-migrant ethnic minority in Europe, facing prejudice, intolerance, discrimination, and social exclusion in their daily lives. This has led to a huge gap in several social domains between the Roma and non-Roma created for centuries. The COVID-19 pandemic has only increased the social and health inequalities that the Roma […]
نقش مداخلات مبتنی بر جامعه در جهت بهبود سلامت روان در کودکان و نوجوانان پناهنده در کشورهای ثروتمند
This systematic review evaluates community-based mental health interventions aimed at reducing mental health concerns for refugee children and adolescent who are living in high-income countries. This review includes many types of studies but specifically looks at the results from randomized control trials (RCTs). The effectiveness of the interventions is evaluated and the insight the review […]
改善高收入国家难民儿童和青少年心理健康的社区干预措施
This systematic review evaluates community-based mental health interventions aimed at reducing mental health concerns for refugee children and adolescent who are living in high-income countries. This review includes many types of studies but specifically looks at the results from randomized control trials (RCTs). The effectiveness of the interventions is evaluated and the insight the review […]
School-based programs for supporting the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of adolescent forced migrants in high-income countries: a scoping review
This article includes a scoping review of literature focused on school-based programs that aim to support the wellbeing of adolescent forced migrants residing in high-income countries. Through this review, an outline of existing programs is provided in addition to reflection on challenges faced and lessons learned from current intervention strategies. […]
Interventions de santé mentale basées sur la communauté chez des enfants et des adolescents réfugiés dans des pays à revenu élevé
This systematic review evaluates community-based mental health interventions aimed at reducing mental health concerns for refugee children and adolescent who are living in high-income countries. This review includes many types of studies but specifically looks at the results from randomized control trials (RCTs). The effectiveness of the interventions is evaluated and the insight the review […]
The Dialogic Society
The book focuses on the dialogue as the main source of knowledge. The book brings to light important mistakes from some of the most cited sociological theories. Thus, the author analyse the dialogic society need to address main critiques to soiology and other social sciences: theoretical errors, individualism, ethical problems and lack of social impact. […]
Systematic Review of the Literature on Aspects Affecting Positive Classroom Climate in Multicultural Early Childhood Education.
A systematic review was conducted to gain a better understanding of the pedagogical and structural aspects that foster a positive classroom climate in multicultural early childhood education settings. Following a systematic review procedure, 14 articles were selected and included in the analysis. The findings indicate that eight aspects contribute to a positive climate in these […]
The Scientific Self-Literacy of Ordinary People: Scientific Dialogic Gatherings
This article presents dialogues between researchers and lay people of low socioeconomic status and low educational level on the social impact of a Scientific Dialogic Gathering (SDG) as a tool for promoting scientific self-literacy that is being developed at an urban adult school in Spain. […]
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Implications for Social Impact of Dialogic Teaching and Learning
This review discusses the implications for social impact of the scientific developments on dialogic teaching and learning. […]
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Bullyingy Género. Prevención desde la Organización Escolar
The main contribution of this article is to present orientationsand actions that prevent and contribute to eradicate gender violence and violence for homophobia, biphobia and transphobia through the school organization and school management. Some of these actions are inclusive education, democratization of the centres, making visible and not trivializing violence, and mainly the community participation […]
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Fostering the Social Development of Children with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities (SEND) through Dialogue and Interaction: A Literature Review
This paper provides a literature review of interventions, based on social interaction and their impact on the social skills of students with disabilities. Based on these results, it can be concluded that interaction-based interventions with an inclusive approach nurture the social skills of students with disabilities, in line with previous research. […]
Comunidades de aprendizaje: ¿qué aportan a los voluntarios y voluntarios universitarios?. Revista Complutense de Educación,
This paper presents the assessment of the voluntary students who have participated in centers established as Learning Community. The main conclusion of this paper is that, in the view of its participants, this experience has brought them many benefits both at professional and personal levels, being a highly positively valued practice that they would recommend […]
How the Psychology of education contributes to research with a social impact on the education of students with special needs: the case of successful educational actions.
The aim of this paper is to analyze the social impact achieved by a line of research that has explored the benefits of such successful educational actions for the education of students with special needs. […]
Comunidades de Aprendizaje, un Sueño que hace más de 35 años que Transforma Realidades
Learning Communities began over 35 years ago. In this article, the history of this movement is analyzed with the goal of understanding its evolution, the keys to its growth and success from a historical perspective, focusing on the overcoming of difficulties that this movement has found. […]
Spaces free of violence: the key role of Moroccan women in conflict prevention in schools. A case study,
This study shows how, from the school, new dialogic spaces are open to the participation of all neighbours and how these women are involved in contributing to the improvement of coexistence both inside and outside the school. […]
De la Escuela Gueto a una Comunidad de Aprendizaje: Un Estudio de Caso sobre la Superación de la Pobreza a Través de una Educación de Éxito
this article focus on the results obtained in a case study located in one of the mostdisadvantaged areas of Europe, “La Milagrosa” neighbourhood (Albacete, Spain), and on the impact generated by the transformation of a school situated in this context into a Learning Community. The results of this study show that the Successful EducationalActions implemented […]