ISCAR2025BCN: ISCAR 2025 SOUTHERN EUROPE AND MIDDLE EAST CONFERENCE
PROGRAM

Days: Wednesday, November 5th Thursday, November 6th Friday, November 7th

Wednesday, November 5th

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17:00-18:30 Session Key1: Welcome session and inaugural conference. Keynote. Sylvie Barma

Welcome session and inaugural conference.

Welcome words from

  • Enric Vidal, dean of the Faculty of Education.
  • Annalisa Sannino, president of ISCAR.
  • Margarida Romero, chair of the ISCAR SEME.  

Inaugural conference : 

  • Sylvie Barma, full professor, Université Laval. 
Location: P0A01-P0A02
17:00
Welcome words from ISCAR President
17:10
Welcome words from the dean of the Faculty of Education, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
17:20
Welcome words from the ISCAR SEME Chair
17:25
Keynote
18:30-19:30 Welcome cocktail and tapas.

Welcome cocktail and tapas.

Location: Hall
Thursday, November 6th

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10:00-10:30 Session RT: Academic journeys in Southern Europe and the Middle East
Location: P0A01-P0A02
10:00
Academic journeys in Southern Europe and the Middle East
PRESENTER: Elif Polaf
10:50-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session S1A: Concept Development, Contradictions and Transformative Practices
Location: P0A03
11:00
A sociocultural perspective to highlight the social educators’ expertise in practice. A case study. (abstract)
11:20
Working with a key community engaged in the transformation of work : historical analysis and key challenges (abstract)
11:40
Unfinished symphony: interpretations and dissonances of Vygotsky’s theory of concept development (abstract)
12:00
A Cultural-Historical Perspective on the Epistemological Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session S1B: Science & Early Years Education
Chair:
Location: P0A04
11:00
A Holistic Educational Approach to Science, Health, and the Environment for Sustainable Development (abstract)
11:20
Interpreting systemic contradictions through a clinical analysis of activity: a situated case in the AEFE network (abstract)
11:40
The Development of Scientific Thinking in Early Childhood: A Case Study of Personalized Learning in a Playful Context (abstract)
12:00
Building Scientific Agency Within the Collective during the Early Years (abstract)
12:30-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 Session S2A: Caring and collaboration in the field

Caring and collaboration in the field

Location: P0A03
13:30
Reflexive Masculinity: A Framework to Understand Men’s Negotiation between Complicity and Caring Masculine Dispositions (abstract)
13:50
University students' perceptions of caregiving (abstract)
14:10
Using participatory design tools for the improvement of patient experience in geriatric care: an affordance analysis (abstract)
14:30
Teaching play skills to children with autism by mothers in their homes (abstract)
13:30-15:00 Session S2B: Agency, Attitudes and Contradictions
Location: P0A04
13:30
Between Necessity and Will: Rethinking Agency in Everyday Work through CHAT (abstract)
13:50
Transforming Science Education: Exploring Shifts in Attitudes Toward Artificial Intelligence (abstract)
PRESENTER: George Efthimiou
14:10
Teacher Agency and Generative AI: A Cultural-Historical Analysis of Contradictions in Planning, Instruction, and Assessment (abstract)
14:30
Should we ban one-to-one tablets? Analyzing Discursive Manifestations of Contradictions in Educational Technology Integration in Secondary Education (abstract)
15:00-15:30Coffee Break
15:30-16:30 Session S3A: Transformative Agency and design

Transformative Agency and design

Location: P0A03
15:30
Stimulating teacher agency through co-design: a study in a food education context (abstract)
15:50
Tracing Teachers’ Transformative Agency in the Pedagogical Change Laboratory (abstract)
16:10
An Expanded Theoretical Model for the Design Process Based on CHAT (abstract)
15:30-16:30 Session S3B: Social practices and inclusive education

Social practices and inclusive education

Location: P0A04
15:30
Transforming Social Practices Through the Change Laboratory: A CHAT-Based Intervention on Marginality in Varese, Italy (abstract)
15:50
Development of a Mobile Writing Application to Support Inclusive Primary Education (abstract)
16:30-17:30 Session Symposium: Symposium
Location: P0A03
16:30
Powerful Transformative Learning Environments from theory to practice: a pluralist approach to transforming VET through sustainability across Europe (abstract)
17:30-18:30 Session Posters and Cocktail: Posters and Cocktail
Location: P0A01-P0A02
17:30
Towards gender inclusion in computer science teaching and learning: articulating activity theories with the fabric of inclusion (abstract)
17:36
Making Information Accessible: Transforming Municipal Web Communications Through Inclusive and Participatory Practices (abstract)
17:42
Teaching in the Digital Age: Human–AI Co-Creation or Teacher Replacement? (abstract)
17:48
Kwe l’Université! A Community, a Portal and a Preparatory Program for Indigenous People Considering or Pursuing a University Education (abstract)
17:54
Analyzing Educational Practices mediated by digital technologies through Activity Theory. (abstract)
18:00
Emotional Intelligence and Sustainability Education: A Case-Based Approach to Promoting Transformative Competencies in Higher Education (abstract)
PRESENTER: Elena Martino
18:06
Exploring the relationship between carbon footprint and internal personal factors in Spanish university students (abstract)
18:12
Places and eco-anxiety in pro environmental behaviors: Renewable energy communities as possible way to foster sustainability (abstract)
PRESENTER: Biagio Marano
Friday, November 7th

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09:00-10:30 Session S4A: Change Laboratory, Critical Thinking, and AI

Change Laboratory, Critical Thinking, and AI

Location: P0A03
09:00
Hybridizing change lab methodology and documentary filmmaking (abstract)
09:20
Experiences of online Change Laboratory research-interventions in miniature in doctoral education (abstract)
09:40
Navigating AI Integration in TESOL: A Cross-Cultural Online Change Laboratory for Expansive Teacher Learning (abstract)
10:00
Co-Creating Ethical AI Guidelines: A Change Laboratory with Pre-Service Early Childhood Educators in a UAE Tertiary Education Context (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session S4B: Social justice, refugees and inclusivity
Location: P0A04
09:00
When Refugees become family members: private hospitality and affective responsibility within refugee hosting networks in Europe (abstract)
09:20
Temperance as an ethical competence: a proposal for initial teacher education (abstract)
09:40
Teachers Fighting for Dignified Homes for their Students: A Case for a Politicized Sustainability Education (abstract)
10:00
Teaching-learning of social-emotional skills to children and adolescents with visual impairments: from theory to practice (abstract)
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session S5A: Artificial Intelligence, STEM education and playful learning

Artificial Intelligence, STEM education and playful learning

Location: P0A03
11:00
Exploring Νature-Based Solutions through the exploitation of educational robotics, Αrtificial Ιntelligence, Augumented Reality and 3Dimensional activities in the sustainable kindergarten (abstract)
11:20
Generative Artificial Intelligence in Education: Navigating Contradictions to Support Creativity (abstract)
11:40
Artificial Intelligence among us: From Theory to Action (abstract)
12:00
Maker-STEAM projects and science thinking: perspective from the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session S5B: Identity, Dissonances, and Equality

Identity, Dissonances, and Equality

Location: P0A04
11:00
iIntersectionality and indicators of the self in the study of identity narratives of Latin American migrant women in the diaspora (abstract)
11:20
Expanding the Present: collaborative creativity and imagination in workplaces to design “the Near Future” of Family-School-Service Collaboration (abstract)
11:40
Equality between girls and boys at school: an analysis of activity through the lens of CHAT (abstract)
12:00
Transforming Practice in Initial Teacher Education: Navigating Contradictions in the Integration of 21st-Century Skills through Activity Theory (abstract)
12:30-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-14:30 Session Invited session 2.: Vygotskian Insights in Technology-Enhanced Education
Location: P0A04
13:30
Zone of Proximal Development in the Age of AI: Vygotskian Foundations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems (abstract)
13:40
Curiosity-driven learning as a ZPD window for self-regulated learning (abstract)
14:30-15:30 Session S6A: Sociability, Ethics and Digital education

Sociability, Ethics and Digital education

Location: P0A03
14:30
Integration of CHAT in Classroom Management Planning in the Digital Age: Educating for Online Sociability (abstract)
14:50
Reframing Critical Thinking in AI-Mediated Undergraduate Thesis Writing: Towards Equitable Assessment and Cognition in Higher Education (abstract)
15:10
Preliminary Study on Human-Technological System Interactions: Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Analysis of Student Artistic Creations (abstract)
14:30-15:30 Session S6B: MeT@ experimental workshop

MeT@ experimental workshop

Location: P0A04
14:30
MeT@ experimental workshop - for a lasting and retrospective anchoring in the CHAT of a new teacher training approach with video game design (abstract)