Research
Title: Education for citizenship in a hacker school
Main researchers: Andrea Lapa (UFSC-Brazil)
Duration: 01/07/2022 – in progress
Finantial support: Capes (PVE/Print, nº 88887.937228/2024-00)
International cooperation project to expand and consolidate the researchers network on the field of education for citizenship with ICT. In addition, study of collaborative and participatory action research to analyze innovative practices on the subject and improve the methodology of hacker actions in schools for diverse cultural contexts.
Role: Coordinator and main researcher, Visiting Scholar at City University of New York (Cuny), USA (June-December, 2024)
Title: School-world Connection: innovative spaces for citizenship education
Main researchers: Nelson Pretto (coord.) and Karla Brunet (UFBA-Brazil); Antonio Bartolomé Pina and Mariona Grané (UB-Spain); Mário Pireddu (Roma-Tre-Italy); Fernanda Lapa (IDDH/Brazil); Fábio Goveia (UFES-Brazil); Rafael Pezzi (UFRGS-Brazil); Andrea Lapa (coord.), Marina Espíndola, André Leonel and Vinicius Ramos (UFSC-Brazil).
Finantial support: CNPq (Federal agency of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications – Brazil)
Duration: 01/08/2017 – 30/11/2022
International cooperation project, which carries out interventions in 2 basic schools in Brazil to experiment with collaborative pedagogical practices an innovative methodology for human rights education with ICT. The UFSC Group was coordinated by me and had up to 38 researchers.
Role: General co-coordination and researcher.
Title: App2five – Redesigning educative and qualitative Apps directed to early children.
Main researchers: Lucrezia Crescenzi-Lanna (coord.) and Eulàlia Massana (UVIC-Spain); Mariona Grane (UB-Spain); M. Esther Del Moral , M. Rosario Neira and Lourdes Villalustre (UNIOVI-Spain); Marta Lopez (UOC-Spain); Elisabeth Reina and Francisco José Ruiz (UMA-Spain); Silvina Casablancas (FLACSO-Argentina); Tainá Vital and Andrea Lapa (UFSC-Brazil).
Finantial support: State Program of Quality Cientific and Technical Investigation Support, Ministry of Economics, Industry and Competition/Spain.
Duration: 01/08/2019 – 31/07/2022.
International network of researchers which began with professors mobility (Andrea Lapa at UB, 2014/15; Lucrezia Crescenzi-Lanna at UFSC, 2017/18) expanding the network of researchers in the study of cognitive functions development with young children who use apps.
Role: Researcher
Title: Challenges for Research, Teacher Training and Learning in Basic Education and Cyberculture in App-Learning Age
Main researchers: (Brazil): Cristiane Porto (UNIT-coord.); Edmea Santos and Maria Luiza Oswald (UERJ); Monica Fantin (UFSC), Dulce Márcia Cruz (UFSC) and Andrea Lapa (UFSC)
Finantial support: Fapitec/Capes (Federal agency of the Ministry of Education – Brazil)
Duration: 01/02/2017- 30/01/2019.
National network of researchers and professors from 3 Brazilian universities that investigate the integration of apps and mobile devices in education, from the perspective of learning and teacher training.
Role: UFSC coordinator and researcher
Title: Education and Technology: investigating the potential of virtual social networks for the citizenship education and the collective production of knowledge
Main researchers: Tamara Cohen Egler (coord), Fabiana Mabel and Lalita Kraus UFRJ-Brazil): Andrea Lapa, Vinicius Ramos, Isabel Coelho, Andreson Lopes, Simone Schwertl, Arisnaldo Cunha, Vania Koerich and Nilza Gomes (UFSC-Brazil).
Finantial support: CAPES (Federal agency of the Ministry of Education – Brazil) and CNPq (Federal agency of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications – Brazil)
Duration: 01/04/2013 – 30/12/2016
University-school cooperation project, with national network of investigators that included 3 Brazilian public universities. The UFSC Group, coordinated by me, had 20 researchers, including 8 elementary school teachers, who made interventions in class using social networks.
Role: UFSC coordinator and researcher
Title: Redefigning university: new network-learning models
Main researchers: Andrea Lapa (coord.), Roseli Cerny, Juliana Bergmann y Marina Espíndola (UFSC-Brasil), Antonio Bartolomé (coord.), Mariona Grané y Elena Caño (UB-España).
Finantial support: CAPES (Federal agency of the Ministry of Education – Brazil) and DGU (Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, MECD/Spain)
Duration: 01/09/2011 – 31/12/2012
International cooperation Brazil-Spain
Role: Brazil coordinator