SENSOTRA project Meets Ageing Studies

All interested welcome - excellent opportunity to learn creative and narrative methodologies!

Please sign up via e-mail to: sonja.pollanen@uef.fi before Tuesday 20.3.2018 12.00 am. This way we know how much coffee and cookies are needed.

 

Organiser: Sensory Transformations and Transgenerational Environmental Relationships in Europe, 1950–2020 (SENSOTRA)

Place: University of Eastern Finland Joensuu campus, Agora building, room AG201, Yliopistokatu 4

Instructor: Visiting professor Laura Formenti (SENSOTRA, UEF & Milano Bicocca University)

Language: English

 

Bio

Prof. Laura Formenti (b. 1961), PhD, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy; Dept. of Human Sciences for Education.

After a degree in Psychology and Specialization in Systemic Family Therapy, she got a PhD in Pedagogy on Adult Education, centered on autobiographic methods. She teaches General and Social Pedagogy and coordinates the international interdisciplinary PhD Program "Education in Contemporary Society".  She is an Visiting professor in SENSOTRA project at the University of Eastern Finland at the moment.

She is Chair of ESREA (European Society for Research on the Education of Adults), joint Convener of the European "Life History and Biography" Research Network, and member of the Steering Committee of national and international scientific societies (RUIAP, ASSIMSS, CBLL). 

Her research interests focus on the complex, entangled epistemology and hermeneutics of adult learning and education, using aesthetic and co-operative research methods, along with critical and narrative pedagogy, to illuminate processes of individual and collective learning, especially in non formal settings, everyday life, and relationships; she looks at these processes as systemic and complex phenomena, embodied and embedded in material/symbolic contexts (such as family, organization, community, territory, society). 

She is the author of more that 100 publications, mostly in Italian, but also in English, French, Brazilian Portuguese. She recently published, in English: Embodied Narratives (Southern Denmark University, 2014, edited with L. West and M. Horsdal) and Stories that Make a Difference (Pensa, 2016, edited with L. West), and a monograph in Italian: Formazione e trasformazione. Un modello complesso (Raffaello Cortina, 2017).