ENPAIR 2025

Dialogic reading (DR) is acknowledged as an effective method to enhance children’s language and cognitive abilities in a daily setting (Gosen et al., 2015; Kappeler Suter & Plangger, 2018) and it should be designed as adaptive as possible to the children’s learning requirements (Beckerle et al., 2024). In this context, a relevant factor is the children’s engagement in the DR activity...

In my presentation I will discuss Herb Simon’s theory of the ‘Sciences of the Artificial’. I will suggest that it is possible to construe ‘Education’ as an Artefact of our encounters with the environment of social, political and economic policies.
In light of this perspective, we might reconsider the vulnerability of teachers and young people, and whether we are victims of forces beyond our...