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Andres Gonzalez Novoa

Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia, la Educación y el Lenguaje · Universidad de La Laguna

https://researchid.co/agonzaln
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5Scopus Publications
108Google Scholar Citations
6Google Scholar h-index
1Google Scholar i10-index

Research Interests

Oral storytelling & narrative pedagogy; Prison education / penitentiary pedagogy; Children’s & Young Adult Literature (LIJ) and reading mediation; Education (Critical Pedagogy; Intercultural Education; Social Pedagogy); History (History of Education; Educati...

Biography

Trained as an educator and grounded in critical pedagogy and hermeneutics, I hold a permanent lectureship at the University of La Laguna's Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Education and Language. My scholarship connects applied educational research with an enduring commitment to social justice and intercultural education, taking me beyond the university — into prisons, reception centres, and the lives of migrants finding their footing in unfamiliar worlds. Through European Erasmus+ projects, I have explored autobiographical and narrative approaches with people in contexts of vulnerability. As Director of ULL's Oral Storytelling Cultural Unit, I bridge academic and community life through storytelling, reading mediation, and arts-based methodologies. I also serve in postgraduate coordination and faculty quality processes. My current thinking centres on a pedagogy of hospitality, oral culture, and the conditions that make transformative education possible.

Education

Education anchors my academic and professional work. I study how critical pedagogy and hermeneutics can support inclusion, literacy, and democratic citizenship, especially in contexts of vulnerability. In teaching and supervision, I connect theory with practice through narrative pedagogy, oral storytelling, and reading mediation. I have coordinated and contributed to Erasmus+ projects on migrant inclusion and prison education, producing open training resources and good-practice handbooks. Methodologically, I combine qualitative inquiry, design-based interventions, and reflective practitioner r...

Recent Scopus Publications

  1. Pedagogy of Hospitality: Critical Reflection on Teaching Language to Migrants
    Education Sciences, 2025
  2. The Need to Slow Down Higher Education: Beyond a Centrifugal Entertainment University
    En Claves Del Pensamiento, 2024
  3. How to Imagine a New Community from Science Fiction: A Pedagogical Dramaturgy of Silence, for a Slow Education
    Education Sciences, 2023
  4. The pedagogical potential of fairy tales
    History of Education and Children S Literature, 2023
  5. The nineteenth-century fantastic literature of Latin America in the shaping of the marvellous citizenship. The pedagogical construction of the imagined community
    History of Education and Children S Literature, 2022

Research Outputs

No patents registered. Research outputs include transferable educational toolkits, guides and open resources developed within European projects on migrant inclusion and prison education (e.g., digital toolbox/platform and training...

Grants / Consultancy

Erasmus+ KA204 “The Chrysalis and the Butterfly: Autobiographical paths of penitentiary pedagogy” (Ref.

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