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Coordinators: José Luis Lalueza y Ibis Marlene Alvarez
Researchers: Silvia Camps, Sarai García, Andrea Miralda, Marta Padrós, Cristina Zhang Yu
Early-Stage Researchers: Giorgina Garbarino, Karen Andrea Jaramillo, Iyad Khnachar Magnass
Colaborators: Dabid García (USC), Macarena Lamas (UACh), Beatriz Macías Gómez (UPO), María Marco (UPO), Birginia Martínez Lozano (UPO)
Research Areas Ongoing
- Action research in the field of identity development and construction in minoritized communities and contexts of social exclusion.
- Social design research in inclusive learning environments, development of educational communities of practice, and critical intercultural education.
- Promotion of university-based Service-Learning (SL) through the implementation of teaching projects, research, and the design of institutionalization processes.
Research Projects
Shere Rom Project. Educational Communities of Practice for Social Justice (Funded by the Barcelona City Council). (2017-2926). DEHISI Participants: José Luis Lalueza, Cristina Zhang Yu, Karen Jaramillo, Giorgina Garbarino. https://webs.uab.cat/shererom
UniDiversa: Building an Inclusive University. Government of Catalonia. 024BENES0001. /2025-2026)DEHISI Participants: J. L. Lalueza; C. Zhang Yu
Restructuring Politics in Children’s Cultures to Expand Intersectional Pedagogies (K-Reporters). HEU-101131090 (2023-2027). DEHISI Participants. Ibis M. Álvarez https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/en/projects/reassembling-politics-across-childrens-cultures-to-scale-intersec-2/
Training in intercultural communication for the promotion of social justice in vulnerable communities. Fundació Autònoma Solidària (Barcelona, ES). Reference: CT619480. (2023-2024) DEHISI Participants: Ibis M. Álvarez (PI), José Luis Lalueza. https://dialogos-accion-comunitaria.org/
Community Funds for Knowledge and Identity. Articulating Education and Social Agents in Different Contexts and Over Time (Comm4learning). Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. PID2021-127143NB-I0 (2022-2026). DEHISI Participants: José Luis Lalueza, Cristina Zhang Yu, Karen Jaramillo Solar.
Resilience Strategies for the Inclusion of Students at Risk in Social Emergency Situations (INCLUEDUX). Ministry of Science and Innovation. Reference: PID2020-118198RB-I00 (2021-2024). DEHISI Participants: Ibis Álvarez, José Luis Lalueza. https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/es/projects/estrategias-de-resiliencia-para-la-inclusion-de-alumnado-en-vulne-3/
Training in intercultural communication for the promotion of social justice in communities. Fundació Autònoma Solidària (Barcelona, ES). Reference: CT619480. (2023-2024) DEHISI Participants: Ibis M. Álvarez, José Luis Lalueza. https://dialogos-accion-comunitaria.org/
Identification and analysis of family ties and social networks of young people who migrate alone (agreement with INTRESS) (2020-2022). DEHISI Members: José Luis Lalueza, Ibis Alvarez, Marta Padrós.
Reassembling politics across children’s cultures to scale intersectional pedagogies (K‑Reporters). Horizon Europe (HORIZON). HEU-101131090 (2023-2027). IP. Montserrat Rifá. DEHISI Participant: Ibis M. Álvarez
Community Funds of Knowledge and Identity. Articulating Education and Social Agents across Settings and Time (Comm4learning). Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. PID2021-127143NB-I0 (2022-2026). IP: Moisès Esteban-Guitart (UdG). Miembros DEHISI: José Luis Lalueza, Cristina Zhang Yu, Karen Jaramillo Solar.
Resilience strategies for the inclusion of at‑risk students in situations of social emergency. (INCLUEDUX). Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Referencia: PID2020-118198RB-I00 (2021-2024). IP: Miquel Àngel Essomba y Virgina Martínez. Miembros DEHISI: Ibis Álvarez, José Luis Lalueza, Crista Weise. https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/es/projects/estrategias-de-resiliencia-para-la-inclusion-de-alumnado-en-vulne-3/
Training in intercultural communication for the promotion of social justice in vulnerable communities. Fundació Autònoma Solidària (Barcelona, ES). Referencia: CT619480. (2023-2024) Miembros DEHISI: Ibis M. Álvarez (IP), José Luis Lalueza. https://dialogos-accion-comunitaria.org/
Notable Publications
Zhang-Yu, C., Garbarino, G., Jaramillo, K. A., & Lalueza, J. L. (2025). The study group as a possible place: seven years of collaboration with a team of nursery school teachers / El grupo de estudio como lugar posible: siete años de colaboración con un equipo de maestras de Educación Infantil. Studies in Psychology: Estudios de Psicología, 46(1-3), 264-289.https://doi.org/10.1177/02109395251396970
Álvarez, I. M., y Campos, M. N. (2025). Práticas comunitárias: Resistências e empoderamento. Editora Letra1. https://ddd.uab.cat/record/32331
Macías B., Martínez-Lozano, V., Lalueza, J.L., & Alvarez, I.M. (2025): School´s challenges, affordances and resilience in COVID-19 times: helping transitions for vulnerable children in Spain. Springer (pp. 49-67). In Sustainability, care, play and the zone of proximal development. Mariane Hedegaard, Marilyn Fleer, Ditte Winther-Lindqvist, Louise Bøttcher (Eds.) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-92131-5_3
Weise, C., Álvarez, I.M, Lalueza, J.L., y Mora, J. (2025). Trayectorias migratorias y redes de apoyo de jóvenes migrantes no acompañados. Revista Internacional de Educación para la Justicia Social, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.15366/riejs2025.14.1.007
Macías-Gómez-Estern, B., Martínez-Lozano, V., & Lalueza, J.L. (2025). Re-envisioning collaborative university-community engagement through a critical ethnographic lens: transformative hybrid scenarios. Ethnography and Education, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2025.2565009
Macías-Gómez-Estern, B., & Lalueza, J.L. (2024). Navigating I-positionings in higher education Service Learning as hybrid scenarios: a case study.Learning, Cuture and Social Interaction, 45, 100805 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100805
García Romero, D., Macías-Gómez-Estern, B., Martínez-Lozano, V., & Lalueza, J. L. (2024). El aprendizaje auténtico en el aprendizaje-servicio. Educación formal, participación social y cambio identitario. Revista De Educación, 1(404), 81–107. https://doi.org/10.4438/1988-592X-RE-2024-404-618
Álvarez, I. M., & Morón, M. (2023). Linking curriculum content to students’ cultural heritage in order to promote inclusion: an analysis of a learning-through-the-arts project. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 27(13), 1487–1502. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2021.1900425
Zhang-Yu, C., Camps-Orfila, S., Lalueza, J.L., García-Díaz, S., y Viñas, D.(2022). Procesos de cambio educativo en contextos de segregación escolar: una investigación basada en el diseño. Psicoperpectivas 21(1) https://dx.doi.org/10.5027/psicoperspectivas-vol21-issue1-fulltext-2544
Weise, C., Álvarez, I. M., & Sarapura, N. (2021). Designing a deep intercultural curriculum in higher education: co-constructing knowledge with Indigenous women. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 17(2), 335–345. https://doi.org/10.1177/11771801211019027
León-Nabal, B., Zhang-Yu, C., & Lalueza, J.L. (2022). Uses of Digital Mediation in the School-Families Relationship During the COVID-19 Pandemic. In Lacasa, P., Zagalo, N., Emmer, M., eds. Digital/Online Networks in Everyday Life During Pandemics. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/978-2-88974-934-8 9
Zhang-Yu, C., García-Díaz, S., García-Romero, D., & Lalueza, J.L. (2021). Funds of identity and self-exploration through artistic creation: addressing the voices of youth. Mind, Culture, and Activity 28(2), 138-151 https://doi.org/10.1080/10749039.2020.1760300
Theses Completed in the Last 5 Years
Marin Suazo, Carolayn Andrea (2024). De máxima complejidad a máxima oportunidad: conectando la práctica escolar con el entorno comunitario. Director José Luis Lalueza. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/692030
Podestá González, S. Pía. (2023) . Propuesta de prácticum para fomentar la competencia intercultural en la formación inicial docente. Directora Ibis Álvarez. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/688794
Contreras Villalobos, Tabata Anaís Cecilia (2023). Respuestas y Resistencias al Abandono Escolar en la Educación para Jóvenes y Adultos: Significados, Experiencias y Prácticas desde Chile y España. Directors José Luis Lalueza i Verónica López.. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona y Pontificia Universidad de Valparaíso (cotutela). http://hdl.handle.net/10803/691032
García Díaz, Sarai (2023). Identit.art. Exploración de narrativas identitarias a través del arte. Director José Luis Lalueza. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/691412
Zhang Yu, Cristina. (2022). La interculturalidad crítica como propuesta político-pedagógica liberadora: nuestra experiencia en Shere Rom. Directors Moisés Esteban Guitart, José Luis Lalueza. Universitat de Girona. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/676039