Building bridges in Education between Anthropology and New Audiences: local and international partnerships as crossroads of disciplines and technologies.

Abstract (English)

This panel aims to explore anthropology’s distinctive contribution to interdisciplinary research and practice in education, critically analyzing the opportunities, challenges and experiences that emerge from collaboration between different disciplines.
The role of new technologies becomes crucial in building local collaborations and international partnerships: anthropology then becomes a very useful discipline for building bridges between various experts, institutions, countries and cultures, promoting a wise pedagogical use of technologies.

Although anthropology is distinguished by its capacity to work with uncertainty and move between different analytical scales and perspectives, numerous practical, ontological, and epistemological challenges persist in conducting truly interdisciplinary research in the field of education.
The panel focuses on experiences of anthropology and education that demonstrate effective forms of collaboration between different disciplines, technologies and methodologies, with particular attention, in anthropological research, to the integration of quantitative and qualitative approaches. How, for example, can the ethnographic gaze enrich and deepen the analysis of quantitative data in educational contexts? How can anthropological tools and methods facilitate processes of listening and dialogue in educational settings? How can local and international partnerships, in which the various partners confront each other as equals, be enriched? How do these partnerships foster the development of world anthropologies?

The panel welcomes contributions addressing:
- Case studies of interdisciplinary collaborations in education, in which technologies help the local and international dialogue, with particular attention to methodological processes and epistemological challenges.
- Experiences of encounter between different research methodologies, considering data not as predefined elements, but as the result of a dynamic process of listening and collaboration among all actors involved in educational processes.
- Experiences of exchanges and twinnings of universities, schools and institutions of different territories address about specific anthropological themes.
- Reflections on new ways of communicating, pedagogical use of technologies and strategies to overcome disciplinary barriers and build effective dialogue between partners in local and global contexts.

The aim is to stimulate critical reflection on how anthropology can contribute to education, maintaining its specificity while opening up to dialogue with other disciplines and forms of knowledge.

We invite researchers, education professionals, scholars and students from various disciplines to share experiences and reflections, to build a constructive dialogue on the potential and challenges of interdisciplinarity, as well as partnerships in contemporary educational approaches to reach new audiences.