Ramon Flecha

• University of Barcelona

The scientific literature has evidenced that certain educational and dialogic actions have been successful at increasing the quality of social interactions and improving mental health, among other beneficial aspects. One of these dialogic actions is the dialogic literary gathering (DLG). The impacts of DLGs have been demonstrated in Europe and Sout...

Background/Objectives: Child protection from any form of physical or mental abuse or mistreatment is a fundamental right. The scientific literature supports that evidence-based interventions, such as the “Zero Violence Brave Club”, contribute to reducing school bullying by promoting a culture of zero tolerance for violence in diverse educational co...

On 29 October 2024, Spain suffered the impact of an Isolated Depression at High Levels (DANA) that caused severe human and material damage. As seen in cases of natural disasters of similar magnitudes, the impact on children requires sustained interventions, with educational communities being key settings for providing protection and accompaniment....

Feminist studies have increasingly highlighted the contributions of women from various backgrounds; however, a gap remains in the research on conservative religious women. This article presents findings on Casilda Iturrizar, a bourgeois and religiously conservative woman who significantly influenced 19th-century Bilbao. Three surveys with 442 parti...

Modern society's digitization has led to the creation of online science platforms. Research shows that academic-oriented platforms boost active research teams, enhance scientific collaboration, and encourage manuscript reviews. However, there is limited research on platforms for citizen participation in science. This study examines the Sappho Scien...

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific literature published research about the presence of hoaxes and evidence in diverse social media, with a huge scientific and social impact. The main results showed that while in Western social media like X there was more false information and less scientific evidence than in the Chinese platform...

Autobiographical memories of close relationships have been shown to have strong influence in health and life. Yet, there is no research published about longitudinal memory reconstruction of violent sporadic relationships while reading and discussing scientific evidence on gender violence victimization. This article presents a novel case of the reco...

The scientific literature has already demonstrated the benefits of romantic love as a key protective factor in the prevention of violence. Some recent publications affirm that romantic love is a powerful cause of gender violence following two steps. First, they attribute a list of causes of violence to romantic love calling them “the myths of roman...

Research has explored the role of capitalist markets in the configuration of society and as social determinants. However, some niche markets have been taken by a form of capital, conceptualized as “predatory”, that has sought maximum benefit without caring for the social consequences of their activity on beauty, ugliness, freedom, and the overcomin...

Plain Language Summary Health impacts of violence against supporters of victims of gender violence Isolating Gender Violence (IGV) is the violence perpetrated against those who support victims of gender violence and results from their support. This study explores the perceptions of a group of IGV victims about the impact that such violence had on t...

Scientific literature has clarified that bullying is a global challenge and students with special educational needs (SEN) are at a higher risk of experiencing it. Educational actions focused on dialogue and interaction as dialogic gatherings (DG) have been widely studied as a successful educational action (SEAs) rooted in egalitarian dialogue that...

The scientific and grey literature have highlighted the increasing relevance of the social impact of research. More and more, funding and evaluation agencies are using social impact as a required criterion when assessing the excellence of research proposals and researchers’ CV. However, research has identified elemental confusions about what social...

Alcohol and drug abuse are recognized risk factors in scientific literature that can leave female adolescents vulnerable to experience teen dating violence (TDV) in their relationships. These risk factors are highlighted in prevention campaigns, empowering girls to proactively avoid or decline situations that may put them at risk of such violence....

The health consequences of gender violence, a global health and social problem, are increasingly studied. Among its roots, research has identified a coercive dominant discourse imposing the idea that masculinities and relationships marked by abuse and domination are more attractive than egalitarian ones. To prevent the health consequences of gender...

O projeto "Comunidades de Aprendizagem" transforma as escolas e seus contextos sociais urbanos ou rurais. Já em mais de dez mil lugares, eles estão alcançando as maiores melhorias conhecidas em todas as dimensões de aprendizagem e coexistência. Este resultado é o produto dos esforços das pessoas das comunidades educacionais, guiados por evidências...

Scientific literature about neuromyths has proliferated in the last few years. However, there is a gap of knowledge around neuroedumyths. While neuromyths are based on hoaxes about the brain, neuroedumyths use neuroscientific concepts but state consequences for education that are false. This article presents, for the first time, research about neur...

There is a wide and rich literature about how neoliberalism is promoting the budgetary cuts to science and universities, especially to the critical sectors, such as the social sciences. There is scarce literature on the analysis of the role of sociology in the internal processes and debates on the elaboration of the scientific programs of research....

Backgroud Countless efforts to combat sexual harassment have been proposed, and for the first time in history, the second order of sexual harassment (SOSH) has been legislated under the term second-order violence (SOV) by a unanimous vote of the Catalan Parliament. Advances in preventing and responding to sexual harassment contribute to highlightin...

COVID-19 has exacerbated the vulnerability of the Roma communities in Europe. However, these communities have a strong sense of resilience, and the role of Roma women must be highlighted since they have historically nurtured solidarity networks even in the most challenging situations. Aim: A particular action organized by a Roma Association of Wo...

The scientific literature has shown Mondragon Corporation (MC), with 65 years of history, as a clear example that cooperativism can be highly competitive in the capitalist market while being highly egalitarian and democratic. This cooperative group has focused on its corporate values of cooperation, participation, social responsibility, and innovat...

FECYT ha editado la publicación digital y accesible “Hacia una comunicación inclusiva de la ciencia: Reflexiones y acciones de éxito” para abordar los principales aspectos que se deben tener en cuenta para el diseño y ejecución de proyectos de divulgación científica con un enfoque inclusivo. Para ello, se han analizado estudios recientes sobre el t...

Current scientific literature is outlining a profound and accelerated transformation in the relationships between qualitative methodologies of research, citizens, society and social theories. The evolution towards a more dialogic society has led to a less talked about methodological advancement: Citizen participation in the evaluation of the social...

Neuroscience has well evidenced that the environment and, more specifically, social experience, shapes and transforms the architecture and functioning of the brain and even its genes. However, in order to understand how that happens, which types of social interactions lead to different results in brain and behavior, neurosciences require the social...

Gender-based violence affects 1 in 3 women worldwide and is the leading cause of death among women. Journalism has a duty to provide fair and coherent information and has a huge effect on peoples’ perceptions. This study examines how one excellent journalism practice contributes to social impact and overcomes sexual harassment. Social impact is con...

This study explores the dialogues about social values, emotions and feelings that emerge during the implementation of dialogic literary gatherings (DLG). DLG is a classroom-based program grounded in the dialogic reading of classic books. Ten DLG sessions with fourth-grade students (n = 126) were implemented in 5 elementary schools in Spain. The ana...

Recent scientific literature has published about the Isolating Gender Violence (IGV), the violence exerted by harassers against those who support their victims. IGV provokes suffering to advocates with health and well-being consequences that have been analyzed by more recent research; but IGV provokes also suffering on the victims of gender violenc...

There is a wide and rich scientific literature about Gender Violence (GV) in diverse institutions and contexts, now including Isolating Gender Violence (IGV). However, there is an almost absolute silence about GV and IGV within the field of critical pedagogy despite its pretention to influence children’s education. This paper is part of a long rese...

El lenguaje juega un papel fundamental en la construcción de la realidad social. Teorías e investigaciones sobre actos de habla e interacción social han hecho grandes aportaciones al análisis de cómo hacemos cosas con palabras y el impacto así generado en la construcción de las relaciones. Sin embargo, nuevas conquistas sociales como los necesarios...

Desde su creación en 1978 en la Escuela de Adultos La Verneda-Sant Martí, situada en uno de los barrios más desfavorecidos y marginados de Barcelona en la época, las Tertulias Literarias Dialógicas (TLD) han generado transformaciones sociales en contextos diversos, en diferentes países, con personas de diferente nivel socioeconómico y educativo y d...

In December 2020, the Catalan Parliament approved by unanimity the world’s first legislation of the concept of Isolating Gender Violence (IGV); in 2021, several parliaments are developing their own legislations. The elaboration of this concept and later this name has been a long and dialogic process among diverse scientists, policymakers, governmen...

Research shows the existence of a coercive dominant discourse that associates attraction with violence and influences the socialization processes of many girls and women. According to previous studies, the coercive dominant discourse constitutes a risk factor for gender violence, as men with violent attitudes and behaviors are socially presented as...

When faced with situations of gender-based violence, one becomes exposed to risk in giving support to the victim (van Reemst, Fischer, & WC Zwirs, 2015, Hamby, Weber, Grych, & Banyard, 2016; Liebst, Heinskou & Ejbye-Ernst, 2018). This form of violence, second order of sexual harassment (SOSH), occurs when people who support victims of gender-based...

Growing evidence in recent years has led to an agreement on the importance and benefits that inclusive education has for students with special educational needs (SEN). However, the extension and universalization of an inclusive approach will also be enhanced with more evidence on the benefits that inclusion has for all students, including those wit...

Há décadas, a pedagogia crítica tem apontado a importância da profissão docente para contribuir com a superação das desigualdades, principalmente quando concebida de forma crítica, científica e libertadora. No entanto, as dinâmicas burocrática e bancária que prevalecem em nossos sistemas educacionais contribuem para o desencanto, a apatia e a progr...

There is a broad consensus on the impact of teacher quality on students’ outcomes. However, the debate on how to evaluate the impact of teacher training on student improvement remains open. The evaluation of the impact of in-service teacher training, organized in a network for different schools, has been analyzed very little to date. Our research d...

Second-order sexual harassment (SOSH) is the harassment suffered by those who stand with and support victims of violence against women (VAW) ¹ . Because the vast majority of programs currently focus on promoting bystander intervention, for such programs to be successful, knowledge about and actions against SOSH are necessary. Through narratives, th...

The sustainability of societies is an issue of utmost importance for humankind. This is reflected in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which highlight the main challenges that citizens face, including underserved groups, and set the path for finding solutions to overcome them. The achievement of the SDGs for 2030 is setting not only the politic...

The dialogic nature of human beings has widely been argued in the scientific literature. Language, as a cultural and psychological tool, has the potential to construct social meanings, including those related to love, attraction and desire. In these emotional dimensions of the self, people use ‘the language of desire’, defined as the capacity of la...

The need to develop adequate methodologies to comprehensively assess the impact of research, especially the social impact of European Union (EU)-funded research, is one of the main concerns within the European Commission as well as for EU citizens, who are more active than ever. This article discusses the rationale behind using a qualitative approa...

Background: We are witnessing increasing demand from governments and society for all sciences to have relevant social impact and to show the returns they provide to society. Aims and objectives: This paper reports strategies that promote social impact by Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research projects. Methods: An in-depth analysis of six...

Technology has become a crucial means for learning and education, and its use is widespread in most educational settings. This has brought forward major changes in approaches to learning and the learning environment. However, besides the advancement, there is a raising concern about the effects of its use on children. To respond to this concern, th...

Since the Coronavirus health emergency was declared, many are the fake news that have circulated around this topic, including rumours, conspiracy theories and myths. According to the World Economic Forum, fake news is one of the threats in today's societies, since this type of information circulates fast and is often inaccurate and misleading. More...

Psychology related to areas such as gender, language, education and violence has provided scientific knowledge that contributes to reducing coercive social relationships, and to expanding freedom in sexual-affective relationships. Nonetheless, today there are new challenges that require additional developments. In the area of consent, professionals...

Background We are witnessing increasing demand from governments and society for all sciences to have relevant social impact and to show the returns they provide to society. Aims and objectives This paper reports strategies that promote social impact by Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research projects. Methods An in-depth analysis of six Soc...

Research in neuroscience is being very fruitful in providing evidence about the influence of social experience in the architecture and functioning of the brain. In so doing, neuroscience is posing new and fascinating research questions to examine in depth the social processes that produce those neural changes. To undertake the task of tackling such...

Violence against women is a reality that is still present in Europe and a serious public health threat worldwide. Fortunately, investment is being made to raise awarness at the national and EU levels and among diverse publics. However, more research is needed in order to better explain its underlying factors, and thus identify effective actions tha...

Desde su creación, las Ciencias Sociales han tenido un importante rol en contribuir a la mejora de la sociedad. Sin embargo, esto no siempre se ha logrado en la investigación social. Hoy, la comunidad científica internacional plantea un marco desde donde recuperar ese sentido original y contribuir a dar respuesta a las necesidades de la ciudadanía...

Recently, the need to contribute to the evaluation of the scientific, social, and political impact of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research has become a demand of policy makers and society. The international scientific community has made significant advances that have transformed the impact of evaluation landscape. This article reviews the...

The social impact of research has usually been analysed through the scientific outcomes produced under the auspices of the research. The growth of scholarly content in social media and the use of altmetrics by researchers to track their work facilitate the advancement in evaluating the impact of research. However, there is a gap in the identificati...

Interrater reliability (kappa) result. This file contains the SPSS file with the result of the calculation of Cohen’s Kappa regards the interrater reliability. The word document exported with the obtained result is also included. (ZIP)

Data collected and SICOR calculation. This excel contains four sheets, the first one titled “data collected” contains the number of tweets and Facebook posts collected through the three defined search strategies; the second sheet titled “sample” contains the sample classified by project indicating the ID of the message or code assigned, the type of...

Background: High incidences of drug consumption and mental health problems are found among the Roma population in Spain, a reality that remains understudied. Past studies have indicated the positive role played by the Iglesia Evangélica Filadelfia (IEF) in promoting rehabilitation and prevention of these practices.Objective:In this article, authors...

Recent debates on the meaning and use of science are focused on addressing citizens’ needs or concerns of society in different fields. Researchers have developed different methodologies for capturing the relevance of topics to be addressed by research in order to map them. This article proposes a new methodology for identifying the relevance of res...

Reflections of Joe L. Kincheloes’ applications of Freirean dialogue and love foreground a history of Joe’s work in Spain. Two scholars influenced by the key works of Kincheloe center the vision of critical education and radical love on Freire and his influences through Joe. Radical love is defined as an abiding emotional tie between and among criti...

El derecho real a la educación de todos y todas incluye dos dimensiones. Por un lado, el derecho de asistencia a un centro; por otro, el derecho a disfrutar en ese centro de las actuaciones educativas que dan los mejores resultados en aprendizaje instrumental, valores, emociones y sentimientos, es decir, las Actuaciones Educativas de Éxito. Desgrac...

On the basis of approaches to grouping pupils and organizing human resources , INCLUD-ED identified three different forms of classroom arrangement. Streaming is defined by providing different curriculum standards to groups of pupils based on their ability and separating “different” students through ability grouping or placing them in special groups...

Family involvement in educational activities is proven to improve children’s academic outcomes. In this sense, the results obtained by INCLUD-ED highlighted five types of family/community involvement , i.e., informative , consultative , decisive , evaluative and educative , and their individual effects on academic achievement. The results indicate...

The Successful Educational Actions (SEAs) have demonstrated their ability to achieve excellent results with respect to academic success and increased social cohesion in different schools with diverse student bodies and families. Of these actions, we highlight interactive groups (heterogeneous groups of pupils with one adult volunteer per group who...

Based on the data provided in the previous chapters, recommendations for educational policy should include the need to invest in evidence-based policies, as a way to improve results and reduce cost.

This chapter discusses the relationship between education and other areas of society, with a particular focus on social inclusion/exclusion in employment, health, housing and political participation. Beginning with the literature on these close relationships, particular educational actions that have demonstrated positive results will be described a...

Scientifically published and recognized, the communicative methodology accounts for both the scientific and social aspects of research. In research conducted using the communicative methodology, knowledge is constructed through dialogue between researchers and end-users, who are not traditionally included in the research process. Researchers contri...

The aim of the research conducted by the INCLUD-ED project is to achieve both academic success and social cohesion for all children and communities in Europe, regardless of their socioeconomic status and/or ethnic background. The project analyzed the educational actions that lead to social inequality, with a particular focus on the actions that con...

Drawing on the results of INCLUD-ED research, the European Commission and the Council of Europe have recommended considering schools as learning communities to reduce early school leaving and improve learning outcomes.

Esta publicación se centra en dos temáticas relevantes en el marco de la línea de investigación en "Socialización preventiva de la violencia de género" desarrollada por el centro de investigación CREA. Estas dos temáticas son: el amor ideal y las nuevas masculinidades alternativas. Se recoge la investigación científica existente sobre violencia de...

title>RESUMEN: Este artículo analiza la metodología de investigación comunicativa para la transformación social de la educación de personas adultas. A partir de sus elementos clave: inclusión de las voces de las personas participantes, ruptura del desnivel metodológico y reconocimiento de la inteligencia cultural. Esta metodología ha sido la base...

1. I think there are two version of this report circulating on ResearchGate. 2. Álvaro Cortés Fácila is not a co-author of this report. He should be removed from the authors list.

The educational agenda in Europe for this decade aims to ensure the improvement of educational outcomes for all students. Responding to this challenge requires that all professionals in the educational field have the twofold commitment to rigorous and transformative educational work. The article presents some of the elements that have been identifi...

1 Introduction: From "best practices" to Successful Educational Actions.- 2. The communicative methodology of the Includ-Ed research.- 3. Forms of classroom arrangement: streaming, mixture, inclusion.- 4. Successful Educational Actions in/outside the classroom.- 5. Successful Educational Actions through family involvement.- 6. Schools as learning c...

Successful Educational Actions (SEAs) are those that, supported by scientific evidence, produce two results simultaneously: increase academic achievement and improve social relationships. Also SEAs fulfil two essential characteristics: they are universal and transferable, that is, they work in all contexts. We find SEAs at all levels of education,...

Competitiveness today requires being able to operate at a global scale. The financial crisis invigorated this requirement, posing new challenges to the economic viability of conventional companies and demanding alternative organizational forms of production. Although a wealth of research has focused on capitalist companies, little attention has bee...

Resumen In 1968, Freire included in his work the need of dialogue for those acting as leaders. Since then, leadership has been widely addressed by authors around the world and different conceptual frameworks have been developed. The role of dialogue for leading change has been significant across different social and educational movements. Educatio...

In 1968, Freire included in his work the need of dialogue for those acting as leaders. Since then, leadership has been widely addressed by authors around the world and different conceptual frameworks have been developed. The role of dialogue for leading change has been significant across different social and educational movements. Educational resea...

Over a decade ago, researchers in Roma studies shifted their approach, from an exclusionary stance to a more communicative one. Despite major positive changes since then, researchers still do not adequately reflect the voices of the majority of the world's Roma. In this article, we draw on a communicative mixed methods case study, conducted within...

In this article we present the very important contribution of the ten experiences awarded by the edition "Education is everything 2013" of the Fundacion Santa Maria. From different educational areas and levels these ten experiences evidence the possibilities of making great progress towards equal rights of all children to academic success even in t...

Framed in a context of questioning of the social sciences by European institutions, this article offers an example of a way of doing organic public sociology for and with civil society. The authors employ the Communicative Methodology, which goes beyond oppositions between descriptive and normative sociology. It does so by using the concept of ‘suc...

Successful Educational Actions (SEAs) are those that, supported by scientific evidence, produce two results simultaneously: increase academic achievement and improve social relationships. Also SEAs fulfil two essential characteristics: they are universal and transferable, that is, they work in all contexts. We find SEAs at all levels of education,...

Schools and communities may have a key role in reversing the cycle of inequality that the Roma suffer in Europe. Aiming at reducing existing inequalities, dialogic learning aims to ensure high levels of academic learning for all children, by involving the whole community through egalitarian dialogue. Less well known are the implications of this app...

O presente texto é fruto de estudos, ações e debates que o autor e a autora vêm desenvolvendo sobre a Educação de Pessoas Jovens e Adultos (EPJA), numa perspectiva dialógica. Para abordar a formação de educadores e educadoras para a EPJA, dedicam-se, primeiro, à retomada do histórico das políticas e práticas na Espanha e no Brasil, seus países de o...

En este articulo se exponen algunas propuestas para la educacion dentro del marco de los cambios sociales (dualizacion social, revaloracion de la educacion, medios intelectuales ... ) que estan teniendo lugar dentro de la sociedad de la informacion.

En este artículo se presenta el aprendizaje dialógico como experto en la resolución de conflictos en el ámbito escolar. Para ello nos basamos en la experiencia del proyecto de Comunidades de Aprendizaje, cuyo éxito radica en la implicación de toda la comunidad en el proceso de aprendizaje. Cuando se percibe que la educación de sus hijos e hijas imp...

La actual sociedad de la información ha supuesto enormes avances respecto al anterior modelo de la sociedad industrial. Sin embargo, la universidad sigue funcionando del mismo modo que lo hacía antes. Las capacidades de seleccionar la información más relevante de entre un enorme cúmulo de datos y de procesarla para aplicarla adecuadamente en cada s...

Research about masculinities gathers different topics from diverse disciplinary perspectives. One of the topics has been the analysis of the perpetuation’s effect of the traditional heterosexual model of masculinity in the violence against women. Recent scientific evidences about the reproduction of this social problem have evidenced the existence...

The international scientific community has validated dialogue-based literary gatherings as a successful educational action that significantly improves both instrumental learning and peaceful coexistence. Unlike good practices or best practices, successful educational actions are both universal and transferable, and they have achieved the greatest i...

The Roma people: a global identity without territory (overview) Nation-States have reinforced the link between identity and territory defined by borders. In recent years, the Gypsy community, with its definition as a people who neither has nor wants a territory, has initiated a process that is transforming the relationship between territory and ide...