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Team
This project brings together academics from social psychology, education, political science, sociology and policy studies, and creates a collaborative community, in which participants contribute complementary knowledge and research expertise. The focus of our work is thus both local and disciplinary, and collaborative and cross disciplinary. .........................................................................................................................................................
Polish Team
The Polish team (University of Warmia and Mazury www.uwm.edu.pl and Warsaw School of Social Psychology www.swps.edu.pl) has wide research experience in the fields of psychology (social, psychology of personality and individual differences) and education (particularly teachers’ and students’ attitudes towards change in Europe). The team has experience of working in international projects and research.
Project Leader Polish Principal Investigator: Dr Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz University of Warmia & Mazury, Olsztyn, POLAND Website: www.uwm.edu.pl Homepage: www.beatakrzywoszrynkiewicz.pl
Ph.D. Psychologist; author and co-authors over 30 articles and 4 books on the field social and educational psychology. Special interests: active citizenship, self-responsibility. Has been involved in international projects on citizenship education (CiCe, TEAM). Member and leader of 5 scientific grants founded by Committee of National Research (learned helplessness, self-responsibility, citizenship). Member of Executive Committee international network Children Identity and Citizenship in Europe Association, responsible for National Coordinators’ support. Member of Scientific Committee of European Science Foundation; www.beatakrzywoszrynkiewicz.pl
Polish Researcher - Prof. Anna Zalewska Warsaw School of Social Psychology, POLAND Website: www.swps.edu.pl
Associate Professor at Warsaw School of Social Psychology (Poland), Head of Chair of Quality of Life Psychology. She leads courses on psychology of individual differences, quality of life, subjective well-being and job satisfaction. Main fields of research interests: individual differences, links between temperament and other personality dimensions, and their impact on objective indices and subjective evaluations of quality of life in different kind of environment. Leader or a member of research team in scientific grants, founded by national (4), European (1) or local authorities (7). She published a book “Two worlds. Affective and cognitive evaluations of quality of life and their antecedents among high and low-reactive persons” (2003) and over 50 articles in specialized journals and books. She won ISSID 2003 Poster Award and several local university rewards for publications, organizational and educational activity. She is a member of the Polish Psychology Association and the European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP).
Polish Research Assistant - Agnieszka Bojanowska - Pyrka Warsaw School of Social Psychology Website: www.swps.edu.pl
Agnieszka Bojanowska-Pyrka is a holder of two M.A. degrees: in Social Psychology from Warsaw School of Social Psychology and English Studies from University of Warsaw. While pursuing her academic interests, she has worked as a recruiter for a headhunting agency, a translator and a freelance consultant for Polish NGOs on several projects, including the study of governmental employment agencies in Poland and the analysis of labor migration from Poland to other EU countries. Currently she is a teacher at the Psychology Department of Warsaw School of Social Psychology and is working on her Ph.D. dissertation about the quality of life in various age groups.
Polish Research Assistant – Wojciech Siegieñ University of Warmia & Mazury, Olsztyn, POLAND Website: www.uwm.edu.pl
Psychologist, social anthropologist, ethnographical researcher, M.A. of Interfacultative Individual Human Studies at Warsaw University. Ph.D student of University of Warmia and Mazury, Social Science and Art Faculty, academic assistant of Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology Warsaw University. Coordinator of the research group "Fields of Social Mediations - Kaliningrad - Poland". Main area of research: clinical psychology, and transition studies in terms of gender relations (field research held in Poland, Belarus and Russia). Researcher in the ECRP project.
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Spanish Team
The Spanish team (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, University Pompeu Fabra and the University of Córdoba) has substantial expertise in intercultural education, social psychology and social science approaches to multilingualism. Team members have researched migrant student populations, including identity construction among teenagers from minority ethnic groups. The team has extensive experience of international and European projects (Socrates-Comenius, Socrates-Minerva and Leonardo).
Spanish Principal Investigator – Dr Melinda Dooly Autonomous University of Barcelona, SPAIN Website: www.uab.es
Ph.D., Linguist, author and co-author of numerous articles and books on the field of linguistics and language teaching. Special interests: discourse analysis and its application to the field of education. Melinda has been involved in several international projects and served as International Relations Coordinator for her faculty for four years. Homepage
Spanish Researcher - Dr Carmen Tabernero University of Cordoba Website: http://www.uco.es/
Associate Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at the University of Cordoba, Spain. She has developed her PhD at the University of Salamanca, where she has received a doctoral award in 1998. She has received research training in different oversides Universities as Keele University (U.K. 1995), University of New South Wales (Australia, 1997, 1998, 1999), Northwestern University (U.S.A., 2003) and University of Lisbon (Portugal, 2000, 2001, 2007). Her main research interest is focalised on the “Analysis of the self-regulatory mechanisms (self-efficacy, self set-goals, satisfaction) and motivation on the development of complex tasks at individual and group level across different contexts: organizational performance, satisfaction in multicultural educational centres and environmental behavior at home. She has publish many papers as Implicit theories versus the social construal of ability in self-regulation and performance on a complex task (OBHDP, 1999), Self-efficacy and strategy on complex tasks (APIR, 2000), Cooperative training in heterogeneous groups (Psicothema, 2005), Effects of goal orientation, error orientation and self-efficacy on performance in an uncertain situation (SB&P, 2006) and Dispositions and self-regulation on self-defeating behaviour (JSP, 2007). She is the main research in two Nacional Research Projects, 2004-2006, (Self-regulatory processes in the development of acculturation strategies of inmigrants in Spain) and, 2007-2009, (Self-regulatory variables in the facilitation processes of intercultural education of teachers: Cultural intelligence, cultural self-efficacy and cultural leadership).
Spanish Researcher - Ms Maria Villanueva Autonomous University of Barcelona, SPAIN Website: www.uab.es
Lecturer in Human Geography at the Faculty of Education,Autonomous University of Barcelona; author and co-author of many articles and books on geography education, citizenship and intercultural education in teachers training. Has been involved in many international projects. Member of the HERODOT network steering committee and member of CICE network. Coordinator of International Relations.
Spanish Researcher - Dr Antoni Luna Autonomous University of Education/University Pompeu Fabra Website: www.upf.edu
Spanish Researcher - Dr Miquel Angel Essomba Autonomous University of Barcelona, SPAIN Website: www.uab.es
Spanish Researcher - Montserrat Oller Department of Didactics, Faculty of Education Website: www.uab.es
Spanish Research Assistant - Claudia Vallejo Faculty of Education, Autonomous University of Barcelona Email: claudia.vallejo@uab.cat
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Turkish Team
The Turkish team (Istanbul University www.istanbul.edu.tr and Eskiºehir Anadolu University www.anadolu.edu.tr) brings research expertise in the areas of communication and media literacy, and knowledge of the new Turkish education policy which emphasises citizenship education, globalization and relationships with the EU. The Turkish team has experience of running UNESCO and UNICEF projects.
Turkish Principal Investigator – Dr. Nilüfer Pembecioğlu Öcel Istanbul University, Faculty of Communication Website: www.istanbul.edu.tr www.istanbul.edu.tr/iletisim
An EFL teacher trainer/educator of Istanbul University, Turkey since 1986. Being an associate professor of the Faculty of Communication, her research interests include language teaching, teacher education/training, linguistics, media studies and media analysis, advertising, peace education and EU Studies. Publications include many articles, research papers and 3 books: ‘Child Image In Turkish and World Cinema’, ‘Children in Communication: The Child–Advertisement Interaction in Communication Environments’ and ‘Papers on Documentary Film’. She is the translator of two books, “Parenting Well in the Media Age – Keeping Our Kids Human” by Gloria De Gaetano and “Sociology of Childhood” by Prof. Dr. William Corsaro.
Turkish Researcher - Dr Erol Nezih Orhon Anadolu University, Faculty of Communication Sciences, TURKEY Website: www.anadolu.edu.tr
An Assistant Professor Anadolu University School of Communication Sciences. He was born in Ankara in 1970, completed primary and secondary education in Ankara. He is graduated from Anadolu University, School of Communication Sciences, Cinema and Television Department in 1993 with honors. Dr. Orhon earned his first master’s degree, Electronic Media major, from Morehead State University, Kentucky and the second one from Anadolu University, Eskisehir in Turkey. He earned his Ph.D degree in 2002 and also participated in different international projects in the area of communication, television and media. One of them is ‘Trainers’ Training Program for Television’ for three months in 2003 in the Netherlands. His recent researches include Global Media Monitoring Project, WACC-Women’s Programme, Country Coordinator 2005 and Girls’ Schooling in Turkey, UNICEF, 2003-2004. Currently, he teaches Television Journalism, Visual Composition and Visual Narration courses at Anadolu University.
Turkish Research Assistant – Nadi Güler Independent Researcher
Was born in İzmit, in 1964 and worked as assistant of Beklan Algan and actor for Municipality of İstanbul City Theaters. Between 1988-1997 he took part in many research projects and experimental projects focusing on creativity of the individual. During the same period he also took part in many international children summer camps to teach in cinema and theater courses and workshops. Between 1991-2001 he worked with his theatrical company “Kumpanya Tiyatrosu” (www.kumpanya.org) having an alternative institutional language of its own and took part in many research, art and contemporary projects mainly in Istanbul and in abroad including Germany, USA, The Netherlands, Macedonia, Romania, Sweden, Portugal, Belgium, Spain, France and Greece. Performing his own individual projects as he calls the autobiographical performances, Güler is the founder of Interdisciplinary Young Artists Association. As one of the founders of ASK (Euroasian Art Collective Association) is the head of the organization of Bodrum International Film Festival for four years. Also organizing Childrens’ Films Festival and Crafts Festival in Bodrum, Güler took part in all films of Derviº Zaim with minor roles.
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UK Team
UK team (London Metropolitan www.londonmet.edu.uk and Exeter www.ex.ac.uk) brings research expertise in the areas of education policy and citizenship education, including research into young people’s socio-political aspirations and concerns and teachers’ understanding of the social and political within the curriculum. The UK team brings considerable experience in the management of large cross-European projects (CiCe, TEAM, British Academy-Hungarian and Slovenian Academies of science collaboration, and Comenius Projects). The UK team initiated the project and will be financing their work from small research grants, supported by their universities
UK Principal Investigator: Professor Alistair Ross London Metropolitan University Website: www.londonmet.edu.uk
Professor Alistair Ross is Director of the Institute for Policy Studies in Education and the London Metropolitan University, UK. He has also been President/Chair of the European Erasmus Network Children’s Identity and Citizenship in Europe (CiCe) since 1998. His interests include social justice in education, the school curriculum, citizenship education and learning about society, and the careers of teachers. He has directed a series of international research projects with various teams drawn from European Universities on several of these themes (TEAM, EPASI, etc). He has published widely, for children, teachers and academics, both in the UK and about 14 other countries.
UK Researcher - Prof. Cathie Holden University of Exeter, School of Education Website: www.ex.ac.uk
Is Associate Professor at the University of Exeter, UK, and Head of Initial Teacher Education where she also trains teachers on the one year citizenship PGCE course. She has contributed to the revised national curriculum for citizenship and is responsible for the secondary strand of www.CitizED.info . She is currently coordinating an international study into primary children’s understanding of local/global issues and their role as active citizens. Books include ‘Education for Citizenship: Ideas into Action’ (2002) (with Nick Clough), The Challenge of Teaching Controversial Issues (2007) with Hilary Claire and ‘Teaching the Global Dimension: Key Principles and Effective Practice’ (2007) with David Hicks.
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