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Dr. Melina Porto
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Name: Dr. Melina Porto
Country: Argentina
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About
Organisation: Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET (National Research Council)
Topics of most interest: Global Education as a whole, Citizenship education , Environmental education, Human rights education, Peace education, Social justice education, Sustainable development education
Types of education of most interest: Primary, Higher education, Non formal education, Youth work and direct engagement of young people
Preference for research approach: Empirical research
Preference for research focusing on: Curriculum, Pedagogy, Teacher education
Online publishing profile or ORCID code:
orcid.org/0000-0002-9159-171X
Recent publications:
Byram, M., Golubeva, I. & Porto, M. (2022). Internationalism, democracy, political education. An agenda for foreign language education. In Lütge, C., Merse, T. & Rauschert, P. (Eds.), Global citizenship in foreign language education. Concepts, practices, connections (pp.128-150). Routledge.
Porto, M. & Zembylas, M. (2020). Chapter 19. Language education and global citizenship: Decolonial and posthuman perspectives through pedagogies of discomfort. In Jane Jackson (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication. Second edition (pp.312-326). London: Routledge.
Porto, M. (2022). Experientially grounded praxis of social justice language education: Pre-service teachers of English engage in field work in an Argentine NGO. Teaching Education, DOI: 10.1080/10476210.2022.2078299
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