Symposium: (5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025))

RC04 Sociology of Education

Program Coordinators: Shaheeda ESSACK (Univeersity of Johannesburg, South Africa) and Marios VRYONIDES (European University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Educational Workshop: How to Teach Students about Social Polarisation?
Session Organizers: Agata KOMENDANT-BRODOWSKA, nataliiA.sokolovska SOKOLOVSKA and Wander JAGER

Harnessing Opportunities: Migrant Students As Catalysts for Educational Improvement
Session Organizers: Joanna SIKORA and Petya ILIEVA-TRICHKOVA

11:00-12:45

Emotions and Affects in School Settings: Sociological Insights for Their Understanding. (Part I)
Session Organizers: Mariana NOBILE and Aina TARABINI

Governance in Higher Education - Dilemmas, Challenges and Potentials
Session Organizer: Shaheeda ESSACK

13:00-14:45

Reimagining Justice in Early Childhood Education: Multispecies Pedagogies for the Anthropocene
Session Organizer: Turkan FIRINCI ORMAN

Student Trajectories and Interlevel Transitions: Higher Education Admission Systems and Support Policies
Session Organizers: Ada Cora FREYTES FREY and Emilia DI PIERO

15:00-16:45

Emotions and Affects in School Settings: Sociological Insights for Their Understanding. (Part II)
Session Organizers: Mariana NOBILE and Aina TARABINI

Higher Education's Legitimation Crisis and Subsequent Threats to Democracy
Session Organizer: Mary CHURCHILL

19:00-20:30

Social Inclusion and Policy Enactment in Schools: Reflections from Latin America
Session Organizers: Dr. Manuela MENDOZA HORVITZ, PhD in Sociology of Education and Analia MEO

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Processes, Practices and Policies of Gender and Sexual Diversity in Educational Systems. Local and Global Approaches to Educational Justice
Session Organizers: Sebastian FUENTES, Berta LLOS CASADELLA and Carolina GAMBA

The Role of Education in the Epoch of Anthropocene
Session Organizer: Maria CHALARI

11:00-12:45

Education in the Anthropocene Epoch
Session Organizer: Maroc BOUSBAA AMAL

The Rise of Devices in Secondary Education
Session Organizers: Mariana NOBILE and Anne BARRÈRE

13:00-14:45

Perspectives on Linguistic Interaction and Meaning Negotiations in Multilingual Settings
Session Organizer: Nadja THOMA

15:00-16:45

Human Capital Discourse, Neoliberal Governmentality, Lifelong Learning, and Social Justice
Session Organizers: Tien-Hui CHIANG and Marios VRYONIDES

International Student Mobility and Contested Knowledges
Session Organizers: Rachel BROOKS and Vera SPANGLER
Chair: Rachel BROOKS

19:00-20:30

RC04 Business Meeting

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Education in Times of Peace, with Conflict in Mind: Overlaps and Spill-over Effects of Military and Civil Education Paths
Session Organizers: Tobias MAIER and Baris ATES

Secondary Education and Social Development in the Globalizing World
Session Organizer: Prof. Shinichi AIZAWA

11:00-12:45

Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice in Higher Education Teaching
Session Organizers: Robert AUST and Dr. Walter BARTL

13:00-14:45

Cultural and Religious Diversity of Migrant Children in Schools
Session Organizer: Driss EL GHAZOUANI

15:00-16:45

Educational Inequalities and the New Politics of Exclusion
Session Organizer: Dr. Terry WOTHERSPOON, BA, BEd, MA, PhD

Vers Une Sociologie De L'intervention En Éducation
Session Organizer: Bassou NAJAT

19:00-20:30

Intelligence Artificielle (IA) Et Apprentissage Tout Au Long De La Vie (ATLV) : Dimensions Sociologiques D'usages, De Défis Et D'opportunités Pour Un Contexte Africain En Mutation
Session Organizers: Youssef NAIT BELAID and Amal AMAL SALLAKI

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Sustainable Development Goals and Global Citizenship
Session Organizers: Kent Sheng Yao CHENG and Feng-Jihu LEE

11:00-12:45

Family-School Relationships
Session Organizer: Antigoni Alba PAPAKONSTANTINOU
Chairs: Nelli ASKOUNI and Loizos SYMEOU

Student Mobilities from the Global South
Session Organizer: Carola BAUSCHKE-URBAN
Chair: Carola BAUSCHKE-URBAN

13:00-14:45

Childhood, Geontopower and the Anthropocene
Session Organizer: Veronica PACINI-KETCHABAW
Chair: Veronica PACINI-KETCHABAW

Quels Facteurs Sociaux Viennent Fonder Le Sentiment De Justice Des Professionnels De L'éducation Et Des Élèves En Anthropocène ?
Session Organizers: Laure CALMELET, Emmanuelle BETTON BETTON and Gueugneau CELINE
Chair: Emmanuelle BETTON BETTON

15:00-16:45

Feminist Contributions to the FIELD of Sociology of Education
Session Organizers: Analia MEO, Aina TARABINI and Judith JACOVKIS

Inclusion and Exclusion: How Educational Organizations Deal with Diversity (Part I)
Session Organizer: Svenja HAMMER

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Inclusion and Exclusion: How Educational Organizations Deal with Diversity (Part II)
Session Organizer: Svenja HAMMER

The Hopes and Challenges of Critical Pedagogy in Higher Education Classrooms
Session Organizers: Liang-Wen LIN-JANUSZEWSKI and Greg MISIASZEK

11:00-12:45

A Transformative Perspective on Social Innovation in Education
Session Organizers: Karina MALDONADO-MARISCAL and Juha TUUNAINEN

Where Do the Precariat Go? a Generational Perspective and Others
Session Organizers: Chun-wen LIN and Jason Chien-chen CHANG

13:00-14:45

Mapping Visual Research about Collaborative and Democratic Forms of Teaching and Learning
Session Organizers: Analia MEO, Sarah WILSON and Ana Ines HERAS

The Sociological Dimensions of Africanization/Internationalization in Higher Education: Implications for Policy, Pedagogy and Community Engagement
Session Organizers: Youssef NAIT BELAID and Nihal LAMDAGHRI

15:00-16:45

New Digital Technologies, Power and Work: Labor Control and Resistance (Part 2)
Session Organizer: Chris TILLY