SIG 26 Fireside Chat with Prof. Antonia Larraín

Southern paths to academia: Educational Research as Storytelling

Our popular fireside chat series continues this year. We are excited to announce our next Fireside Chat. We are honored to have Professor Antonia Larraín as our distinguished guest, sharing her personal journey as academic: Southern paths to academia: Educational Research as Storytelling.

Time: Feb 18th, 9AM (Eastern time) / 3PM (Central European Time).
Register for Fireside Chat here.

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Antonia Larrain is Full Professor at Faculty of Psychology, Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Chile. She holds a PhD. in Psychology from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. In 2010 she was a postdoc visiting scholar at Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK where she worked with Professor Christine Howe. She has been engaged in revisiting classical theories of psychology and social sciences (Vygotsky, James, Bakhin, Dewey) to re-conceptualize basic psychological concepts such as thinking, concepts, inner speech, discourse, among others. She has published on these topics in Theory & Psychology, Discourse Processes, Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, European Journal of Psychology of Education, Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, among others. She also has led more than 7 grant projects devoted to study the relation between argumentation and learning and has published more than 40 papers in journals such as Journal of Educational Psychology, The Journal of the Learning Sciences, Cognition and Instruction, Environmental Education Research, European Journal of Psychology of Education, among others. She was the former president of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology (2019 - 2022) and associate editor of the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. She is part of the editorial board of Theory & Psychology, Review of General Psychology, and European Journal of Psychology of Education.