Publications made by our team
Here you can find a few publications of our team that are related to our project. Feel free to check them through the link below and, in case of any doubt, feel free to reach out to us!
Conferences
Alcantara Pla, M., & Ruiy, A. (2025). Toolkit for HE students and staff embarking in social action towards linguistic and cultural diversity. BOLD webinar “Building on Linguistic and Cultural Diversity: Fostering social action in pre-service teacher education”, 12th February 2025 (online).
Brinkmann, L. M., Gerwers, F., Heidari, N., Melo-Pfeifer, S., & Sprenger, S. (2024, December 2). Addressing linguistic equality and educational justice in two teacher education programs: Voices from pre-service French and geography teachers in Germany. In S. Pinto (Chair): Integrating social action towards linguistic and cultural diversity in initial teacher education curricula. [Symposium]. 2024 SRHE International Research Conference: Higher Education – A Place for Activism and Resistance?, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham (United Kingdom) (online).
Duarte, J., & Gerritsen, N. (2024, June 20). Principles and roundtables (voices of participants) and how this is seen in the module activism for minority and minoritized languages. In M. Lourenço (Chair): Education for social action on linguistic and cultural diversity: Teacher education resources. [Symposium]. Reimagining Teachers and Teacher Education for Our Futures Conference, University of Helsinki (Finland).
Melo-Pfeifer, S. (2024). Pre-service language teachers as creative multilinguals: Arts-based approaches for professional development. 7th November 2024, University of Ottawa (Canada).
Melo-Pfeifer, S. (2025). Métodos artísticos na formação de professores de línguas (Artistic Methods in Language Teacher Education): entre criatividade e justiça social. Talk at Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme “Ensinar Português Língua Não Materna: Cruzar Experiências, Multiplicar Recursos (4ª Edição)”, 20th June, Universidade do Porto (Zoom, Portugal).
Melo-Pfeifer, S.; Brinkmann, L.; Pinto, S.; Torres, R.; Zourou, K. (2025). Community engagement and service learning to foster (language) teacher awareness about societal multilingualism: insights from the European project BOLD. 11th EDILIC Conference, July 2025, University of Hamburg (Germany).
Pinto, S., Araújo e Sá, M. H., Carinhas, R., Lourenço, M., das Neves, A., & Teixeira, M. (2024, December 2). Promoting culturally and linguistically responsive teaching in initial teacher education programmes at the University of Aveiro. In S. Pinto (Chair): Integrating social action towards linguistic and cultural diversity in initial teacher education curricula. [Symposium]. 2024 SRHE International Research Conference, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham (United Kingdom) (online).
Pinto, S., Ulhôa, A., Simões, C., Araújo e Sá, H., Teixeira, M., Kremer, M., Lourenço, M., Carinhas, R., & Carlos, V. (2024, June 20). Module linguistic and cultural management in border regions. In M. Lourenço (Chair): Education for social action on linguistic and cultural diversity: Teacher education resources. [Symposium]. Reimagining Teachers and Teacher Education for Our Futures Conference, University of Helsinki (Finland).
Samiotis, S., Zourou, K., & Oikononou, S. (2023). Active citizenship and digital action in Higher Education. 12th Conference of the Hellenic Educational Society, University of Ioannina (Greece), 10–12 November 2023.
Zourou, K., & Oikonomou, S. (2025). Preparing Future Educators for Diversity: Integrating Social Action into Pre-Service Teacher Training. 18th Annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI), Seville (Spain), 10–12 November 2025.
Brinkmann, L. M., Gerwers, F., & Melo-Pfeifer, S. (2024, June 20). Module linguistic equality as a basis for social and educational justice. In M. Lourenço (Chair): Education for social action on linguistic and cultural diversity: Teacher education resources. [Symposium]. Reimagining Teachers and Teacher Education for Our Futures Conference, University of Helsinki (Finland).
Bohndick, C., McMonagle, S., & Melo-Pfeifer, S. (forthcoming, 2026).
Literacy in Diversity Settings: Integrating International Approaches in Research and Teaching at the University of Hamburg.
ECSPM Symposium: Internationalisation of HE, Multilingualism, Translation, 19–21 March 2026, University of Saarbrücken (Germany).
Coming soon
Duarte, J. (2024). Welcome to the teacher education program: research and practice. Opening of the academic year, 2nd December 2024, University of Groningen (The Netherlands).
Machado, M., & Pinto, S. (2025). Da teoria à prática através da aprendizagem-serviço: uma abordagem na formação inicial de professores. CNaPPES – Congresso Nacional de Práticas Pedagógicas do Ensino Superior, University of Évora, Portugal, 10–11 July 2025.
Melo-Pfeifer, S. (2024). Direitos humanos linguísticos, migração e refúgio. Plenary talk at the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito — Nupesul – Direito Internacional na Contemporaneidade: um olhar crítico para o direito, as políticas, os deslocamentos e suas repercussões, Universidade Federal do Paraná (online, Brazil).
Melo-Pfeifer, S. (2025). Arts-based Approaches in Language Teacher Education: Promoting Plurilingual Education for All. Plenary talk at 8ᵗʰ International Congress of Applied Linguistics Today, Modern Approaches to Old and New Challenges, 23–25 May, 2025, Faculty of Philology, Belgrade (Serbia).
Melo-Pfeifer, S. (forthcoming, 2026). Förderung der glocal citizenship bei angehenden Sprachlehrkräften durch Service Learning und Social Action: Erkenntnisse aus dem Erasmus-Plus-Projekt BOLD. Keynote speaker at LEND National Conference “Educazione plurilingue per la cittadinanza globale”, Ferrara (October 23–24, 2026).
Melo-Pfeifer, S. & Orham, E. (2025). Linguistic Landscapes as Tools for Education for Sustainable Development in the Foreign Language Classroom: Perspectives of Student Teachers and Language Learners. Linguistic Landscape 16, Spaces of Collapse and Transformation, 3–5 September 2025, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany).
Pinto, S., & Lourenço, M. (2025). Integrating linguistic diversity and social justice in HE curricula: opportunities and challenges. BOLD webinar “Building on Linguistic and Cultural Diversity: Fostering social action in pre-service teacher education”, 12th February 2025 (online).
Porto, M. (2025). Transforming trauma and suffering into civic action in teacher education: A case in an Argentinian university. BOLD webinar “Building on Linguistic and Cultural Diversity: Fostering social action in pre-service teacher education”, 12th February 2025 (online).
Sprenger, S. & Heidari, N. (2024, June 13). Diversity in the curriculum: Dimensions of diversity. Example: Gender in textbooks. EUGLOH for Future Teachers, University of Hamburg (Germany).
Zourou, K., & Oikonomou, S. (2024, December 2). Academia-driven social action transforming language studies and initial teacher education: Mapping the field. In S. Pinto (Chair): Integrating social action towards linguistic and cultural diversity in initial teacher education curricula. [Symposium]. 2024 SRHE International Research Conference, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham (United Kingdom) (online).
Brinkmann, L. M., Gerwers, F., & Melo-Pfeifer, S. (2024, June 20). Presentation of BOLD (rationale, aims, work packages – modules). In M. Lourenço (Chair): Education for social action on linguistic and cultural diversity: Teacher education resources. [Symposium]. Reimagining Teachers and Teacher Education for Our Futures Conference, University of Helsinki (Finland).
Duarte, J. (2025). Social action to foster linguistic and cultural diversity in higher education: The BOLD survey and round tables. BOLD webinar “Building on Linguistic and Cultural Diversity: Fostering social action in pre-service teacher education”, 12th February 2025 (online).
Melo-Pfeifer, S. (2024). Exploring pre-service language teachers’ beliefs about plurilingualism through arts-based approaches: writing (about) plurilingual poetry. 24th November 2024, University of Toronto (Canada).
Melo-Pfeifer, S. (2025). In the kitchen… of European transnational projects. Talk at the Conference “Actions for social justice in multilingual societies. ECSPM 2025 Symposium”, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 15–16 May 2025.
Melo-Pfeifer, S. (2025). Abordagens artísticas na aula de português no ensino superior: entre criatividade e justiça social. Talk at Ensino de português como língua estrangeira na Alemanha: bases, perspetivas, best-practices. 20th June 2025, Frei Universität Berlin (hybrid format, Germany).
Melo-Pfeifer, S., & Brinkmann, L. M. (2024, August 27). Service learning in teacher education programs to foster linguistic activism and multilingual pedagogies across the curriculum. In E. Le Pichon (Chair): Empowering Change: Inclusive Pedagogy, Linguistic Diversity and Social Activism in Teacher Professional Development in Canada, The Netherlands, Germany, New Caledonia. [Symposium]. European Conference of Educational Research (ECER), University of Cyprus (Cyprus).
Pinto, S. (2025). A aprendizagem em serviço no desenvolvimento da competência intercultural no ensino superior. CAP Estudantes para Estudantes – Projeto INOV.NORTE, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, 30 May 2025 (Portugal).
Pinto, S., Melo-Pfeifer, S. & Duarte, J. (2025). Service learning in language teacher education: connecting student teachers and communities for enhanced plurilingual education at schools. PEP Conference “Bridging Voices in Plurilingual Education: Policies, Research and Practices”, October 23–24, 2025, Rome (Italy).
Ruiz Sanchez, A. (2025). Delia, un chatbot contra los delitos de odio. Closing conference of the Master’s Degree in Language and Artificial Intelligence, 30 May 2025, University Autonoma of Madrid (150 people).
Zourou, K. (2025). Social action as a catalyst of language studies and initial teacher education: mapping the field. International Applied Linguistics Research Conference, Louvain-la-Neuve, 19–21 November 2025.
Zourou, K., Oikonomou, S. (2025). Student-driven innovation for inclusive and resilient digital education: The UAnited and BOLD DigiEduHack Challenges. 2nd International Conference on Digital Education Trends and Challenges, November 8-10, 2025 Novi Sad, Serbia.
Publications
Brinkmann, L.M., Gerwers, F., & Melo-Pfeifer, S. (2025). Ideologías lingüísticas en el paisaje lingüístico: actividades pedagógicas para introducir el activismo lingüístico en el aula de idiomas. Studia Iberystyczne/Studia Iberica, 25. (Special issue: El paisaje lingüístico en Europa: diversidad lingüística e ideologías), pp. 159–179.
Duarte, J., Gerritsen, N.; Lourenço, M., Melo-Pfeifer, S., & Pinto, S. (2024). Service Learning for Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Higher Education: Proposals for Pre-Service (Language) Teacher Education. Education Sciences 4, 750.
Melo-Pfeifer, S., & Brinkmann, L. (forthcoming, 2027). Mehrsprachigkeit und Social Activism im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen (FLuL 2/2027; special issue “Das transformative Potenzial von Mehrsprachigkeit im Kontext des Fremdsprachenlernens”).
Melo-Pfeifer, S., Pinto, S. & Torres, R. (forthcoming, 2026). Experiential education and service-learning in language education for social change. In V. Tavares (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Language Education and Social Change. Routledge.
Melo-Pfeifer, S., Pinto, S., Ruiz, A., Ulhoa, A., Simões, C., Gerwers, F., Duarte, J., Zourou, K., Brinkmann, L. M., Teixeira, M., Araújo e Sá, M. H., Defteraiou, K., Alcantara, M., Kremer, M., Machado, M. M., Lourenço, M., Gerritsen, N., Heidari, N., Afonso, N., Aramburuzabala, P., Carinhas, R., Torres, R., Sprenger, S., Samiotis, S., Papatsimpa, S., Oikonomou, S., & Carlos, V. (2025).
BOLD: service-learning for linguistic and cultural diversity in higher education.
Research@UA, 15, 39.
Duarte, J. (2025). Who’s afraid of diversity? Waar de kracht van verschillen voor kansrijker onderwijs zorgt. (Inaugural Lectures). University of Groningen Press.
Lourenço, M., & Melo-Pfeifer, S. (forthcoming, 2025). Developing Language Teachers’ Intercultural Competence: A Critical Regard on the Role of Linguistic Landscapes. In F. Dervin & D. Moore (Eds.), The International Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Teacher Education and Training. Routledge.
Melo-Pfeifer, S., Brinkmann, L., & Gerwers, F. (2025). Bildung für Nachhaltige Entwicklung im Fremdsprachenunterricht mittels Linguistic Landscapes. In E. Pustka & B. Soukup (Eds.), Mehrsprachigkeitsdidaktik: Wissenschaft trifft Schule.
Melo-Pfeifer, S., Pinto, S., Ruiz, A., Ulhoa, A., Simões, C., Gerwers, F., Duarte, J., Zourou, K., Brinkmann, L. M., Teixeira, M., Araújo e Sá, M. H., Defteraiou, K., Alcantara, M., Kremer, M., Machado, M. M., Lourenço, M., Gerritsen, N., Heidari, N., Afonso, N., Aramburuzabala, P., Carinhas, R., Torres, R., Sprenger, S., Samiotis, S., Papatsimpa, S., Oikonomou, S., & Carlos, V. (2025) BOLD: service-learning for linguistic and cultural diversity in higher education. Research@UA, 15, 39.
Torres, R., Melo-Pfeifer, S., & Pinto, S. (forthcoming, 2027).
Service-learning and social action as pathways to linguistic and cultural diversity awareness in language teacher education: A study of (student) teachers’ perspectives.
EDILIC peer-reviewed book. Waxmann Verlag.
Zourou, K., & Oikonomou, S. (2025).
Preparing future educators for diversity: Integrating social action into pre-service teacher training.
Proceedings of the ICERI Conference 2025, pp. 5732–5740, Seville, Spain.
Duarte, J., Lourenço, M., & Melo-Pfeifer, S. (2025). Linguistic landscapes as a pedagogical tool to promote global citizenship and service learning in the foreign language classroom. In Chris Shei & Der-Lin Chao (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of the Sociopolitical Context of Language Learning (pp. 490–506). London: Routledge.
Melo-Pfeifer, S. (2024). Afterword: Linguistic landscapes, activism, and service learning. In E. Krompák & D. Gorter (Eds.), Educational Agency and Activism in Public Space (pp. 345–355). Berlin: Peter Lang. ISBN: 9783631901878.
Melo-Pfeifer, S., & Islam, S. (2025). A Research Agenda for English as an International Language, Social Justice Education and Multilingual Pedagogies. In Nicola Galloway & Ali Fuad Selvi (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of English as an International Language (pp. 506–521). London: Routledge.
Lourenço, M., & Melo-Pfeifer, S. (submitted, 2025).
Developing language teachers’ intercultural competence: A critical analysis of the inclusion of Linguistic Landscapes in teacher education programs.
In F. Dervin & D. Moore (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Intercultural Teacher Education. Routledge.
Coming soon
Yanaprasart, P., & Melo-Pfeifer, S. (accepted and under review, 2025).
Learning and teaching multilingually in Higher Education.
Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
Zourou, K., & Oikonomou, S. (2025).
Insights into an action research for pre-service teachers engaged into social action with two underrepresented communities.
Proceedings of the APPLING Conference, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, November 19–21, 2025.
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