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Ramón Flecha

Main Researcher of the INCLUD-ED project, the Integrated Project from the Framework Programmes dedicated to the analysis of schooling. FP6, European Commission.

Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Timisoara. Professor of Sociology at the University of Barcelona.

Between 2001 and 2004, he directed the WORKALÓ project (The creation of New Occupational Patterns for Cultural Minorities. The Gypsy case). This was a RTD project from the 5 th European Framework Programme for Research. The conclusions of the project were presented and unanimously approved in a plenary session both by the European Parliament and various member states, including Spain.

Among other projects, he was also the lead researcher for the two following projects: “AMAL: Inmigración y mercado laboral” [AMAL: Immigration and the labour market] (2001-2005) and “TRANSMIGRA. Análisis de los procesos de transnacionalidad económica y política marroquí, ecuatoriana y rumana. La migración como factor de desarrollo en los países de origen y acogida” [TRANSMIGRA. The analysis of processes of the economic and political transationality of Moroccan, Ecuadorian and Romanian people. Migration as a development factor in the countries of origin and in host countries.] (2005-2008). Both projects were part of the I+D+I National Plan in Spain.

Until November 2006, he was the director of CREA, the Centre of Research in Theories and Practices that Overcome Inequalities, Scientific Park of Barcelona.

He was also the founder of the Learning Communities Project, which has already been adopted for some Regional Governments as their key programme for the promotion of inclusive educational practices and the overcoming of the school failure.

 

Selected publications

Critical Education in the Information Age (with Manuel Castells, Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux, Donaldo Macedo and Paul Willis). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.

Modern and postmodern racism in Europe: Dialogic approach and anti-racist pedagogies. Harvard Educational Review , 68 (2), p. 150-171, 1999.

Sharing words: Theory and Practice of Dialogic Learning. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. (Translated into Chinese and Spanish), 2000.

Contemporary Sociological Theory (with Jesús Gomez and Lidia Puigvert). New York: Peter Lang, 2003.

Conocimiento e Identidad. Voces de grupos culturales en la investigación social (with Alain Touraine and Michel Wieviorka) Barcelona: Roure, 2004.

Participatory Paradigms: Researching 'with'rather than 'on' (with Jesús Gómez) In B. Crossan, J. Gallacher & M. Osborne (eds.) Researching Widening Access: Issues and approaches in an international context. pp. 129-140. London: Routledge, 2004.

Metodología comunicativa crítica (with Jesús Gómez, Antonio Latorre and Montse Sánchez) . Barcelona: Roure, 2006.

Schools open to (all) women: Towards the overcoming of gender violence in Spain (with Esther Oliver and Marta Soler) British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2009.

 

Selected research projects

INCLUD-ED. Strategies for inclusion and social cohesion from education in Europe. FP6 Integrated Project, Priority 7: Social Sciences and Humanities. European Commission (2006- 2011).

WORKALÓ. The creation of new occupational patterns for cultural minorities. The Roma case. FP5 RTD: Improving the Socio-economic Knowledge Base. European Commission (2001-2004).

TRANSMIGRA. Análisis de los procesos de transnacionalidad económica y política marroquí, ecuatoriana y rumana. La migración como factor de desarrollo en los países de origen y acogida. Plan Nacional I+D+I. Programa de socioeconomía. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. (2005-2008).

AMAL: Inmigración y mercado laboral . Plan Nacional I+D+I. Programa de socioeconomía. Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología. Secretaría de Estado de Política Científica y Tecnología. (2001-2005).

Habilidades comunicativas y desarrollo social. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Secretaría de Estado de Universidades e Investigación. Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica. DGICYT - MEC. (1995-1998).

Learning Communities. CREA, Centre of Research in Theories and Practices that Overcome Inequalities, in collaboration with the Basque Education and Evaluation Institute of the Basque Government , the Department of Education of the Aragon Government, and Department of Education of the Catalan Government.

 

Selection of International Public Lectures

Habermas Theory and Adult Education , public lecture to PhD Students (AEGIS), in the Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York (United States), in 1991.

Racism in Europe, public lecture at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States), in 1994.

Traditional Modernity, Postmodernity and Communicative Modernity Related Issues in Constructing Roles and Learning Tasks of Adult Education, public lecture in the International Adult & Continuing Education Conference (IACEC), in Seoul (South Korea), in 1996.

A política de Educaçâo no Brasil. Globalizaçô e Excluçâo Social [Educational Policies in Brazil. Globalisation and Social Exclusion] , public lecture in an event organized by the ANPED. Associaçaô nacional de Pós-graduaçâo e Pesquisa em Educaçâo. [National Postgraduate], in Caxambu-MG Country (Brazil), in 1996.

Social changes and some tasks of education in Europe , public lecture at the event “Social changes and education: toward restructuring university and schools”, organized by the Kyung-Nam University, in Masan City Country (Korea), in 1997.

The Multiplicity of research on “Learning for All”, a key for the 21st Century , public lecture at the Fifth International Conference on Adult Education, held in Hamburg (Germany), in 1997.

Thought and Critical Action in the Information Age , public lecture held at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States), in 1998 .

International Forum “Honoring Paulo Freire: Issues of Social Justice and Freedom” , public lecture held at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States), in 1998.

Clase social, diferencia y educación [Social class, difference and education] and La nueva desigualdad cultural: diferencia, igualdad y diversidad en los desarrollos curriculares [The new cultural inequality: difference, equality and diversity in curricular development], invited as a key-note speaker at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (Argentina), in 1998.

Dialogic Learning overcoming educational and social barriers , public lecture held at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States), in 2000.

Towards the economic and social inclusion of marginalised migrants , public lecture in the International Colloquim 'Formes et modalités de l'implication des flux migrants dans l'économy.' [Forms and ways to involve the waves of migrants in the economy], held in Aix en Provence (France), in 2002.

Factores de exclusión y transformación en las relaciones entre Comunidad Gitana y el Mercado de Trabajo. [Factors of exclusion and transformation in the relationship between the Roma population and the Labour Market] , public lecture in the International Colloquium: 'Tsiganes et Méditerranéenne: les institutions comme espaces de rencontre.'[‘Roma people and the Medditerranean: institutions as a meeting place'], in Aix en Provence (France), in 2002.

La recherche à partir de l'égalité des différences [Research based on the equality of differences], public lecture in the seminar entitled 'Les voix des minorités culturelles dans la recherche scientifique' [‘The voices of cultural minorities in scientific research'], organized by the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, 6 th March 2004.

Participatory democracy and marginalized groups , public lecture in the 9th Adult Education Colloquium, organized by the Slovenian Institute for Adult Education, in Ljubljana (Slovenia), in 2005.

Communicative Research in Adult Education for Social Inclusion , public lecture in the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), 20 th December 2006.

Cultural groups in Europe and the wider implications promoting European Citizenship. Views on anti-racist pedagogy , invited as a key note speaker in the 35th EUCEN Conference, in Edinburgh, 6 th June 2008.

Dialogic Learning , as a key-note lecture in the Cluster on Educational Access and Social Inclusion, Directorate-General for Education and Culture, European Commission, in Bilbao, 8 th October 2008.