Sociology of Education in Southern Europe: a Step Forward

CONVEGNO INTERNAZIONALE | DAL 25 MAGGIO AL 27 MAGGIO

The first International Conference Sociology of Education in Southern Europe: a step forward (SESE Conference) is the result of an in-progress scientific network among Sociologists of Education in Southern European countries.  
The initiative is promoted by the ‘Sociology of Education’ Section of AIS (Associazione Italiana di Sociologia) with: Association Française de Sociologie (Réseau Thématique ‘Sociologie de l’Education et de la Formation’); Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia (Secção de ‘Sociologia da Educação’) and Federación Española de Sociología (Comité de Investigación de ‘Sociología de la Educación’).

The first SESE Conference addresses these general questions:

  • Can we identify common or different educational issues and patterns in Southern European contexts?  
  • Can we share interpretive frameworks for a better understanding of education in these societies?  
  • Can we define common solutions for the main educational problems?  
  • What is the relationship between the social scientists’ location in the South and their research work or their theoretical frame?  

During the SESE Conference, invited keynote speakers, together with interested scholars and emerging researchers will contribute to the scientific debate. As the Southern perspective seems not to be consolidated among European Sociologists of Education, the conference has the purpose to go a step forward in this direction, shading light on emerging trends and identifying new issues for the research agenda. It would be also of interest to understand in what ways the sociological professional associations work in the Southern Europe. 

FREE REGISTRATION

PROGRAM
DAY 1 – Tuesday, 25th May

OPENING SESSION
h 9.30
Aims of the conference
MADDALENA COLOMBO, AIS-EDU, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

h 10.00 – Keynote speech
PETER MAYO, University of Malta
Themes for Southern Perspective on Sociology of Education in Europe

Open Discussion
11.30-13.00 – Roundtable
Past and present of Sociology of Education in Southern Europe

SÉVERINE CHAUVEL, Université Paris-Est-Créteil
RAFAEL FEITO, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
MARIA MANUEL VIEIRA, Universidade de Lisboa
MARIAGRAZIA SANTAGATI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Lunch Break

PLENARY SESSIONS 
h 14,00-15,45 FIRST PLENARY
Teachers in Southern Europe: Profile, Training, Selection, Effectiveness
Chair
JOSÉ BELTRAN LLAVADOR, Universitat de València
MARIANA GAIO ALVES, Universidade de Lisboa

Keynote Speakers
GIANLUCA ARGENTIN, Università Milano-Bicocca  
Teachers in Southern European Countries

JOSÉ RESENDE, Universidade de Évora
LUÍS GOUVEIA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
(Dis)engaging, (Dis)affection, (Dis)interest: Testing the Excitement of School (Dis)order

Discussants
ELENA BESOZZI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
FILIPPO PIRONE, Université de Bordeaux

Coffee Break

h 16.00-17.45 SECOND PLENARY
Educational Policies in Southern Europe. Between Formal, Non-formal and Informal
Chair
SERGIO ANDRÉS CABELLO, Universidad de la Rioja
LEONOR LIMA TORRES, Universidade do Minho

Keynote Speakers
XAVIER PONS, Université Paris-Est-Créteil
Capturing Contexts in Southern Europe Education Policy Analysis: towards a Literature Review

JOÃO SEBASTIÃO, ISCTE-IUL Lisboa
Educational Policies, Europeanization and Distinctiveness: the Case of Portugal

Discussants
CINTIA INDARRAMENDI, Université Paris 8
PAOLO LANDRI, CNR, Coordinator RN28 ECER


DAY 2 – Wesnesday, 26th May
PARALLEL SESSIONS     
h 9.00-10.45 – Sessions 1 and 2

1 – Evaluation of Southern European Education Systems 
Chairs
RAFAEL MERINO, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
DONATELLA POLIANDRI, INVALSI

ORAZIO GIANCOLA, LUCA SALMIERI, Università di Roma La Sapienza
Isomorphism, Polymorphism or Hybridization? South-European Educational Inequalities at Check

VÍTOR ROSA, TERESA TEIXEIRA LOPO, Universidade Lusófona
The Portuguese Participation in the International PISA Survey: Discourses and Practices of Principals, Coordinators and Students

STEFANO BOFFO, IRRPS CNR
ROBERTO MOSCATI, Università di Milano-Bicocca
The Changing Relation between University and Society in Southern European Countries

ANTONIO BENEDITO CASANOVA, JOSÉ BELTRÁN LLAVADOR, Universitat de València
The Logic of Appearance in the University Classification Systems. Uses of the “Southern” Metaphor

2 – Intergenerational Relations and Family Inequalities
Chairs LEONOR LIMA TORRES, Universidade do Minho
GIULIA CAVALETTO, Università degli Studi di Torino

Fidel MOLINA-LUQUE, Universitat de Lleida
Profiguration, Profigurative Socialization and Theories of the South: Bases for a Global (Solidary) Sociology of Education

PAOLO BARABANTI, GIAN LUCA BATTILOCCHI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Parental Involvement and its Effect on School Achievement: Differences between Central and South Europe. A Study on OECD-PISA 2018 Parent Questionnaire

CARLOS ALONSO CARMONA, Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Teachers’ Perceptions of Parental Involvement: Are They Accurate?

FEDERICA SANTANGELO, DEBORA MANTOVANI, GIANCARLO GASPERONI, Università degli Studi di Bologna
Home-School Distance as an Indicator of Social Inequality

Coffee Break

PARALLEL SESSIONS     
h 11-12.45 – Session 3 and Inter Session

3 – Socialization processes, choices and agency
Chairs:
CAPITOLINA DÍAZ, Universitat de València
ANDREA MACCARINI, Università degli Studi di Padova

EMANUELA SPANÒ, MARCO PITZALIS, Università di Cagliari
Meridian Voices: School and Work Choice-making Processes of Young People in Southern contexts

VICTORIA KONIDARI, University of Patras
Experiencing Diaspora within Homeland. Diaspora as Performance among Vocational Education Students in Italy, France and Greece

SANDRA D’AGOSTINO, SILVIA VACCARO, INAPP
Developing an Italian Dual System in a Southern perspective

CONCEPCIÓN CARRASCO CARPIO, MARTA IBÁÑEZ CARRASCO, Universidad of Alcalá, Madrid
Sexism and Myths of Gender Violence in Adolescents. The case of the Castilla La Mancha region

INTER SESSION – Interdisciplinary Ways of rethinking the South 
Chair
RITA BERTOZZI, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Keynote Speaker
MANUELA GUILHERME, Universidade de Coimbra
Intercultural Responsibility in a Perspective from the Epistemologies of the South: Impacts on Glocademics’ Transnational Performances

VINCENZA PELLEGRINO, Università di Parma
Assuming the Fact of Being South: Towards Emancipatory Social Sciences?

JOSÉ BELTRÁN LLAVADOR, Universitat de València
The South, Metaphor and Horizon for a “Sociological Turn”. Reflexivity, Recognition, Resonance

BRUNELLA SERPE, Università della Calabria, SIPED
From “the Southern Question” to “the Southern Questions”. Education and Emancipation in the Thought and Practice of Scholars of Southern Italy

Lunch Break

PARALLEL SESSIONS     
h 14.00 -16.00 – Sessions 4, 5, and 6 

4 – Inequalities, Early School Leavers and School Policies
Chairs
BRUNO DIONÍSIO, Universidade de Évora
EMILIANO GRIMALDI, Università degli Studi di Napoli

LEONOR LIMA TORRES, Universidade do Minho
The Rise of School Clusters and the Decline of Organizational Identity in Vertiginous Times

PATRIZIA FALZETTI, CHIARA SACCO, INVALSI
Analysis of School-level Factors Contributing to Spatial Inequality in Academic Achievement in Italy

SIRO BAYÓN CALVO, JEZABEL LUCAS GARCÍA, ROGELIO GÓMEZ GARCÍA, Universidad de Valladolid
Exploring Gender and Regional Inequalities in Early School Leaving: An Endogenous Approach

XAVIER RAMBLA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)
MADDALENA BARTOLINI, Centro studi Medì, Genova
Regional Policies to Reduce Early School Leaving in the European Union: the Importance of Multilevel Governance and Educational Programmes in Two Case Studies

5 – Lifelong Learning, Gender and Social Change
Chairs
MARIANA GAIO ALVES, Universidade de Lisboa
ASSUNTA VITERITTI, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza

CARMEN ELBOJ-SASO, TATIANA IÑIGUEZ-BERROZPE, Universidad de Zaragoza
Adult Education as an Empowerment Tool in Southern Europe

VANESSA CARVALHO DA SILVA, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Adult Education and Lifelong Learning in Southern European societies

CHIARA CARBONE, Università degli Studi Roma 3
Feminist and indigenous epistemologies from the South: the Intellectual Practices of Women in Sicily and in New Zealand as Means of Social and Cultural Change

ALÍCIA VILLAR AGUILÉS, Universitat de València,
MAR VENEGAS, Universidad de Granada
Fuel for the Anti-Gender Discourse: an Analysis through a Hashtag Study on Twitter

6 – Counter-narratives, Teachers and Youth Activism
Chairs
MARÍA JIMÉNEZ, Universitat d’Alacant
LUCA QUEIROLO PALMAS, Università degli Studi di Genova

CINTIA INDARRAMENDI, University Paris 8, Saint Denis
When Part of Europe Claims to Belong to “The South”: Theoretical Debate on an Obscure Term

TATIANA SARUIS, RITA BERTOZZI, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
MARIAGRAZIA SANTAGATI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Teachers as Street-level Bureaucrats: Which Challenges in Southern Europe?

KITTI KOZMA, TÍMEA CEGLÉDI, University of Debrecen
Teaching with Resilient Lives: Roma Teachers’ Resilient Pedagogy

VERONICA RINIOLO, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Between Granted and Claimed Spaces: the Political Activism of Youths from a Migrant Background in Italy


DAY 3 – Thursday, 27th May
PLENARY SESSIONS    
h 9.00-10.45 – THIRD PLENARY

Gender-Sensitive Research from a Southern Perspective
Chairs
MARIAGRAZIA SANTAGATI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
ALÍCIA VILLAR AGUILÉS, Universitat de València

Keynote Speakers
LUCA SALMIERI, Università La Sapienza
The Education of Gender or Gender in Education? A South-European Eduscape

MAR VENEGAS, Universidad de Granada
Anti-Gender Discourses and Sexuality Education: Southern Europe Debates

Discussants
MARIA NATÁLIA DE CARVALHO ALVES, Universidade de Lisboa
DIONYSIOS GOUVIAS, University of the Aegean

Coffee Break

h 11.00-12.45 – FOURTH PLENARY
Educational Inequalities in Education. The “Southern Issue”
Chairs
SÉVERINE CHAUVEL, Université Paris-Est-Créteil
SIRO BAYÓN CALVO, Universidad de Valladolid

Keynote Speakers
AGNÈS VAN ZANTEN, Science-Po Paris
What Can we Learn about Educational Inequalities by Examining the Experiences and Discourses of Winners of the Educational Competition?

JOSÉ SATURNINO MARTÍNEZ GARCÍA, Universidad de La Laguna
Equities and Inequalities: Different Concepts of Equity and their Relationship to Measures of Inequality

Discussants
MARCO PITZALIS, Università di Cagliari
MARTA GARCÍA LASTRA, Universidad de Cantabria

Lunch Break

CLOSING SESSION
h 14.00-17.00
Keynote Speaker
MARTA SOLER GALLART, ESA President
Turning Difficulties into Possibilities. Educational and Sociological Challenges for Southern Europe

Roundtable
The Future of Sociology of Education in Southern Europe

CYPRUS: MARIOS VRYONIDES, European University Cyprus, ISA
ESPANA: MARTA GARCÍA LASTRA, Universidad de Cantabria
FRANCE: FILIPPO PIRONE, Université de Bordeaux
GREECE: ELENI NINA-PAZARZI, University of Piraeus
ITALY: MAURIZIO MERICO, Università di Salerno
MALTA: MARIA BROWN, University of Malta
PORTUGAL: BRUNO DIONÍSIO, Universidade de Évora

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SESE Scientific Committee

FRANCE
Séverine Chauvel, Université Paris-Est-Créteil
Filippo Pirone, Université de Bordeaux

ITALY
Gianluca Argentin, Università di Milano-Bicocca 
Rita Bertozzi, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia 
Elena Besozzi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Maddalena Colombo, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Maurizio Merico, Università di Salerno  
Marco Pitzalis, Università di Cagliari 
Emanuela Rinaldi, Università di Milano-Bicocca 
Marco Romito, Università di Milano-Bicocca
Mariagrazia Santagati, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

PORTUGAL
Mariana Gaio Alves, Universidade de Lisboa
Bruno Dionísio, Universidade de Évora
Leonor Lima Torres, Universidade do Minho

SPAIN
Leopoldo Cabrera Rodríguez, Universidad de La Laguna
Marta García Lastra, Universidad de Cantabria
Jordi Garreta Bochaca, Universitat de Lleida
Francesc Jesús Hernàndez i Dobon, Universitat de València
Fidel Molina Luque, Universitat de Lleida 
Paquita Sanvicén Torné, Universitat de Lleida 
Alícia Villar Aguilés, Universitat de València
 
SESE Local Committee
Maddalena Colombo and Mariagrazia Santagati, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Coordinators)
Paolo Barabanti, Alessandra Barzaghi, Gianluca Battilocchi, Guia Gilardoni, Barbara Pizzetti, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Gianluca Argentin, Emanuela Rinaldi, Marco Romito, Università di Milano-Bicocca

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