Sara Amadasi, PhD in Social Sciences, is tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies on Language and Culture at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
Her research interests concern the sociology of childhood, transnationalism, translanguaging, intercultural communication, qualitative and digital research methods.
In 2020 she published her first book with Professor Adrian Holliday, “Making sense of the Intercultural. Finding DeCentred Threads” (Routledge).
In 2022 she conducted a three years research, funded with D.M. 10.08.2021 n. 1062 under the program PON “Ricerca e innovazione” 2014-2020 on the topic of innovation (Azione IV.4 “Dottorati e contratti di ricerca su tematiche dell’innovazione) and Green issues (Azione IV.6 “Contratti di ricerca su tematiche Green”) CUP E95F21002320001. The research “L’uso di linguaggi digitali per la ricerca sociale e l’innovazione nelle imprese che erogano servizi alle persone” (Digital languages in social research and innovation in enterprises that provide services to people ) investigated how digital tools (digital pictures and podcast) can promote children and young people’s narratives about places that populate their lives, to propose methodologies and tools that can support and improve dialogue and promotion of agency of children with migration background.
Currently, she is delving into the topic of translanguaging and belonging in facilitation meetings with young people with migrant backgrounds.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/ 0000-0003-3939-6199
E-MAIL: sara.amadasi@unimore.it
✨ New read alert! My piece is live on the Identities Blog—take a look!
In our Identities article, ‘Keeping two cultures together’: the binary construction of belonging in narratives of professionals on children’s cultural identity’, we investigated how the sense of belonging and cultural identity of children with a migration background are socially constructed by Italian professionals who work…
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Some free access copies of our new article ‘Keeping two cultures together’: the binary construction of belonging in narratives of professionals on children’s cultural identity, just published on @IDjnl, are available here 🙌🏽
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New article on Identities – Global Studies in Culture and Power
‘Keeping two cultures together’: the binary construction of belonging in narratives of professionals on children’s cultural identity In this paper we analyse interviews with Italian education professionals collected in the context of the European Horizon 2020 project CHILD-UP. The aim…
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New open access volume “Exploring the Narratives and Agency of Children with Migrant Backgrounds within Schools. Researching Hybrid Integration”
This edited volume presents the results of a European research project – ‘CHILD-UP’ (Children Hybrid Integration: Learning Dialogue as a way of Upgrading Policies of Participation), which analyses the hybrid integration of children with migration backgrounds into schools across Europe.…
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New article on Language and Dialogue!
Dialogic negotiations of children’s narratives in classroom workshops This article investigates how dialogic negotiations contribute to the enhancement of pupils’ epistemic authority. The analysis was based on two interactions collected in a primary school and a higher secondary school in…
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