✨ 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 at schools and in social services with young people. We also investigated whether narratives told … Leggi tutto ✨ New read alert! My piece is live on the Identities Blog—take a look!

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 is to understand how interviewees’ construct children’s belonging and cultural identity. We also investigated whether … Leggi tutto New article on Identities – Global Studies in Culture and Power

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. The table of contents can be consulted here.

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 Italy, as part of a European research project promoting dialogue-based activities. The aim of the … Leggi tutto New article on Language and Dialogue!