Rocío García-Carrión

• PhD in Education
• Ikerbasque Associate at University of Deusto

Background People with psychosis often experience a fragmented sense of self, making it difficult to integrate perceptions, memories, thoughts, and emotions related to themselves and others. Enhancing mentalization processes and fostering reflection are crucial for comprehensive recovery. As these processes are naturally developed through meaningfu...

Background : People with psychosis have a defragmented sense of self that prevents them from integrating perceptions, memories, thoughts and emotions of themselves and others. Therefore, interventions that enhance mentalization processes and promote reflection are necessary for a global recovery. These processes are acquired in a natural way throug...

Transforming difficulties into opportunities for thriving is at the heart of this volume on the science of learning and development. This chapter brings the perspective of European research and the Global North and South and discusses some of the challenges included in the call to create the conditions for promoting sustainable and equitable future...

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 increasing linguistic diversity of the students in schools poses a major challenge for inclusive educational systems in which everyone can learn the language of instruction effectively and, likewise, can have access to contents, being language the necessary tool to the latter end. Research suggests that there is a robust connection between inte...

Research has shown that participating in collaborative interactions is essential both for language learning and for effective access to school content, which is even more important in multilingual contexts where a large proportion of students are in schools where the language of instruction is different from the language of the home context. Howeve...

Academic learning and social skills are internalized through interactions and dialogue. However, students with disabilities have limitations in engaging in social interactions that affect their educational experience. This case study explores how a particular interactive learning environment, called interactive groups (IGs), fosters quality interac...

Discrimination and educational inequalities continually affect lifelong learning opportunities among marginalized groups in the 21st century. In Ghana and many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, children from rural and urban poor communities, ethnic and linguistic minorities and those in displaced situations have experienced discrimination and marginaliz...

Background 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 a...

‘In your opinion, what are some important research questions, problems or challenges that scholars in your field of specialization should address in the coming years? What types of studies should be conducted to move your field further? Please justify’. This prompt was posed by the incoming Editor of JSED to the new team of Deputy and Associate Edi...

Background: Gender-based violence is a worldwide public health problem that is increasingly occurring at younger ages. This investigation aims to analyze effective interventions to prevent and to face gender-based violence beginning in early childhood in order to ensure quality education for all children through violence-free schools. Methods: T...

Community-engaged teacher education is conceived as a transformational pathway to prepare teachers to successfully engage and effectively work with students from vulnerable communities and historically marginalized. Grounded on the principles of dialogic learning, our approach emphasizes the power of transformative interactions between teachers and...

Psychosis is a severe mental disorder traditionally treated from a purely biological approach, which often has led to a dehumanisation in psychiatric hospitals. To counteract this trend and aiming at tackling the disease with a more human approach, psychosocial interventions have increased. In this vein, interventions based on a dialogic approach,...

Over the last decades, many efforts have been made to establish the Basque minority language as a normalized language in the Basque Country. Research has shown that language use, language proficiency and attitudes towards language are closely associated. Likewise, the benefit of interactive learning environments for improving language proficiency i...

Throughout the 2020-21 academic year, and collecting the good work and research and training experience of all University of Deusto faculties, we have worked on two guides for incorporating a gender perspective in teaching and research. The guide is the result of a collective learning process, in which we have also shared and exchanged with and fr...

Las tertulias musicales dialógicas (TMD) consisten en construir el aprendizaje de manera colectiva compartiendo y dialogando sobre las mejores creaciones musicales de la humanidad. El funcionamiento se basa en los siete principios del aprendizaje dialógico: diálogo igualitario, inteligencia cultural, transformación, dimensión instrumental, creación...

The acquisition of oral communication skills is essential for lifelong learning and development. Despite their importance, specific approaches oriented to its acquisition and mastery in second languages (L2) are not widely established. Indeed, the prevalence of a monologic classroom discourse still hinders the opportunities to enhance language prod...

Research shows the benefits quality friendships have throughout humans’ lives. Recent scientific literature focuses on social impact. However, the social impact of reading and dialoguing about a book about friendship is not explored. This study aims to analyze the impact of “Creative Friendships” in the lives of participants and their surroundings....

The risk for many young children from minority backgrounds of being excluded from a quality education might be reduced through the creation of a positive classroom climate. 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 childh...

Background: HealthyAIR is a tool that detects pollution risk in real life. The target population is people with cardiorespiratory complications who are especially susceptible to the current COVID-19. The goal is to empower people by controlling air pollution everywhere to minimize the risk of having a seizure. Methods: We measured the social impact...

Previous research shows that there is a correlation between attitudes and academic achievement. In this article, we analyze for the first time the impact of interactive groups (IG) and dialogic literary gatherings (DLG) on the attitudes that students show towards learning. A quantitative approach has been performed using attitude tests validated by...

Family participation and involvement in schools has been reported to be crucial for improving academic achievement and social cohesion, especially among those systematically excluded such as migrants or the Roma population. However, these families often participate less in school life. This hinders any attempt to reverse the cycle of inequality exp...

Teacher induction has been an object of interest in teacher education and professional development, mostly as a result of the analysis of the difficulties faced and the coping strategies developed by newly qualified teachers. However, the specific mechanisms to facilitate teachers’ induction when being appointed by schools working under challenging...

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...

Taking a communicative approach in a qualitative inquiry entails including people’s voices through dialogues that are egalitarian and oriented toward transformation. This approach aligns with the transformative paradigm in the pursuit of ensuring the inclusion of the most vulnerable groups. This article explores the role of the communicative approa...

Peer interactions in early childhood education play a key role in establishing the first structures of social relationships and foundations for future development. Engaging in social exchanges with different people enriches children’s concurrent and future learning opportunities. Building on the importance of diversifying interactions, interactive...

Educational inequalities have strongly impacted disadvantaged and underserved populations such us indigenous, Roma, migrant children, students with disabilities, and those affected by poverty. A wide array of research has contributed to explaining the mechanisms and effects of inequalities in the achievement patterns, dropout rates, disengagement i...

La Enseñanza Religiosa Escolar (ERE) en España es una asignatura de obligada oferta para los centros y de libre decisión para el alumnado desde 1979. Entre las competencias que ha de adquirir el alumnado en esta materia se encuentra la comprensión lectora de la Biblia. Las escuelas católicas tradicionalmente han abordado la enseñanza de esta materi...

El potencial transformador de la Agenda 2030 aportando la perspectiva de género, supone un contrapunto a las prácticas actuales de exclusión a las que se enfrentan millones de mujeres y niñas en el mundo que, por múltiples desigualdades cruzadas, cuentan con mayores probabilidades de verse excluidas de los ODS2030. Diferentes investigaciones y orga...

The science of dialogic teaching and learning has especially flourished over the last four decades across age-groups, cultures, and contexts. A wide array of studies has examined the uniqueness of dialogue as a powerful tool to lead effective instructional practices, transform the socio-cultural context and people’s mindsets, among many others. How...

Background: There is growing evidence and awareness regarding the magnitude of mental health issues across the globe, starting half of those before the age of 14 and have lifelong effects on individuals and society. Despite the multidimensional nature of this global challenge, which necessarily require comprehensive approaches, many interventions p...

This paper provides three case studies of initiatives developed to improve educational opportunities in vulnerable urban communities. The cities in the three countries involved, Australia, the United States, and Spain, are different in many ways; however, each has persistent and entrenched inequalities between the educational opportunities and outc...

Providing an inclusive and quality education for all contributes toward the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. High-quality learning environments based on what works in education benefit all students and can be particularly beneficial for children with disabilities. This article contributes to advance knowledge to enhance the qual...

Education is a key feature in the development of an agenda for a sustainable world. Education usually is associated with developing a responsible and ethical citizenship, aware of the main challenges for a sustainable development. Mathematics used to play a role as gatekeeper to achieve good educational performance. This article explores six case s...

Prosocial behavior consists of a set of behaviors that are beneficial to others in the form of sharing and helping. It includes aspects such as solidarity and friendship, and it fosters development and positive psychological functioning; it also improves classroom and school climate. Interactive learning environments may play a crucial role in crea...

This article demonstrates how the engagement of families and other community members in decision-making processes in a school may prevent early school leaving among vulnerable youth and simultaneously increase their enrolment in secondary education. Based on a large-scale, EU-funded study, this article focuses on the case of one school located in a...

Teachers' professional development in Schools as Learning Communities may become a key process for the sustainability and transferability of this model worldwide. Learning Communities (LC) is a community-based project that aims to transform schools through dialogic learning and involves research-grounded schools that implement Successful Educationa...

This study analyzed whether it was possible to successfully transfer an experience of dialogic literary gatherings (DLGs) developed in a prison in the Basque Country (Spain), which was found to enhance the participants’ readiness to return to their communities. A case study was conducted in a different prison in Catalonia that comprised interviews...

Experiencias Las tertulias literarias dialógicas (TLD) fueron algo completamente diferente en esta escuela de Cambridgeshire. A través de interacciones dialógicas entre alumnado y profesorado, mejoraron al mismo tiempo sus resultados académicos y sus relaciones, compartiendo palabras y sentimientos profundos. Tertul i as l i terari as di al ógi cas...

Schools succeeding against the odds can make a difference. However, this complex challenge has barely been achieved individually. Knowing that it takes a village to raise a child, schools as learning communities join everybody to develop a common understanding of the school ethos that promotes quality education for all. This article focuses on how...

Más de 200 escuelas en Europa y más de 400 en Latinoamérica están implementando Actuaciones Educativas de Éxito (AEE) que están contribuyendo a la mejora educativa de alumnado muy diverso. Entre esta diversidad encontramos al alumnado con dificultades de aprendizaje y con discapacidad. En este artículo revisamos las aportaciones que dos AEE, los Gr...

The research reported sought to develop a framework for systematically analysing classroom dialogue for application across a range of educational settings. The paper outlines the development and refinement of a coding scheme that attempts to represent and operationalise commonalities amongst some key theorists in the field concerning productive for...

There is solid evidence that high quality Early Childhood Education (ECE hereafter) have substantial impact on later life outcomes. A growing literature suggests that interventions that develop social competency as well as cognitive, language and academic skills in the earliest years play a role in later educational, social and economic success. Le...

Dialogic Literary Gatherings (DLGs), first implemented by Ramon Flecha, have proved to be a 'successful educational action' (SEA) for inclusion, social cohesion and raising children's attainment in several European and Latin American countries. This article reports their implementation in England and their consistent and dramatic reversal of the ha...

Narratives organize the structure of human experience and allow for the explanation of turning-point moments in an individual’s life. Such “epiphanies” leave marks on our lives and may create possible worlds beyond the established. Dialogic Literary Gatherings (DLGs) expanded the world of Connor, an 11-year-old boy in a rural community, and his per...

Schools as learning communities have been recommended by the European Commission as an effective model to support school quality and development. Aiming at studying how these schools are achieving such positive results, this article focuses on the analysis of a particular classroom intervention called ‘interactive groups’. A five-year longitudinal...

We, the Roma, are the most analyzed people in history. We are tired of being the object of these studies that only benefit those who say always the same things." This comment was one among many negative reactions to the first two studies that were presented in Spain at a government-sponsored meeting in Madrid in November 2009 before an audience ful...

We, the Roma, are the most analyzed people in history. We are tired of being the object of these studies that only benefit those who say always the same things." This comment was one among many negative reactions to the first two studies that were presented in Spain at a government-sponsored meeting in Madrid in November 2009 before an audience ful...

We, the Roma, are the most analyzed people in history. We are tired of being the object of these studies that only benefit those who say always the same things." This comment was one among many negative reactions to the first two studies that were presented in Spain at a government-sponsored meeting in Madrid in November 2009 before an audience ful...

We, the Roma, are the most analyzed people in history. We are tired of being the object of these studies that only benefit those who say always the same things." This comment was one among many negative reactions to the first two studies that were presented in Spain at a government-sponsored meeting in Madrid in November 2009 before an audience ful...

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...

Romani families are the best ones to know exactly what discrimination and social exclusions are; what the majority of them do not know is how to reverse them. Roma leaders, therefore, asked the governmental representatives to stop funding projects that only described the reality of exclusion in which they live without providing any answers. The Rom...

Este artículo presenta las contribuciones en el ámbito educativo que las mujeres, que participaron en el movimiento libertario, realizaron durante su lucha en la Guerra Civil española (1936-1939). Partimos de una investigación en profundidad, inédita: Recuperando las voces de las mujeres luchadoras por la libertad. Catalunya, 1936-1939, que a travé...

Este artículo presenta las contribuciones en el ámbito educativo que las mujeres, que participaron en el movimiento libertario, realizaron durante su lucha en la Guerra Civil española (1936-1939). Partimos de una investigación en profundidad, inédita: Recuperando las voces de las mujeres luchadoras por la libertad. Catalunya, 1936-1939, que a travé...

The conception of learning in the information society has been affected by the dialogic turn of educational psychology. The effective teachinglearning processes respond more and more to the communicative conception of learning in which dialogue and interaction are key elements. In this framework, the dialogic learning emerges as an interdisciplinar...

In Europe, to make the dream of social cohesion possible, society must take on the challenge of educational exclusion, especially for those living in particular in impoverished and marginalized neighbourhoods. Several schools and communities around Europe are already leading the kind of transformative processes that can overcome educational and soc...

In Europe, to make the dream of social cohesion possible, society must take on the challenge of educational exclusion, especially for those living in particular in impoverished and marginalized neighbourhoods. Several schools and communities around Europe are already leading the kind of transformative processes that can overcome educational and soc...

Health literacy has firmly established the links between literacy skills and health outcomes and is subsequently considered a key strategy for improving the health of disadvantaged populations and addressing social inequality. However, current research findings for improving health literacy have primarily focused on adults and actions within health...

The Dialogic Inclusion Contract (DIC) consists in an agreement between the scientific community and social agents to define successful actions aimed at overcoming social exclusion in highly underprivileged areas. Taking the case of a Spanish neighborhood that is generating important transformations, this article explores the process of defining the...

The main premise of Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory is that to promote learning, and thus development, educators must intervene in, and change, the students’ socio-cultural context. Vygotsky’s theory, however, has been misinterpreted and the opposite approach has been accepted: the teaching is adapted, according to the context. The result is...

The paper presents the results of a research study carried out within the framework of the Integrated Project Includ-ed: Strategies for social inclusion and cohesion in Europe based on education from the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme. Includ-ed is the research study on school education with the highest scientific standard and most r...

The American civil rights movement was started by an African Americanwoman who was a participant in a popular education centre. This centre played a key role in the social transformations that led us to elect an African American president in the primary great world power. The Spanish education system needs progressive transformationswhich will cont...

The training material presented in this module aims to enhance and develop the concepts and competences a career counsellor needs to possess in order to face the plural reality of today’s workplace, and educational and social context. The objective of this module is to provide additional instruments, tips and some theoretical resources for the...