C Baraldi
Biographic Data
| ID | 37166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Baraldi |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Baraldi |
| SIGNATURE | BARALDI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Modena and Reggio Emilia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4471-1969 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Challenge of Facilitating Migrant Children’s Proposals in Deliberative Meetings: A Single Case Analysis of Policy Lab Meetings
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.This paper presents qualitative research on the facilitation of Policy Lab meetings held in a Belgian city. Policy Labs are types of mini-publics that aim to apply a deliberative form of democracy by increasing citizens’ participation in the elaboration of new policies, tailored to their needs. Policy Labs are held with the collaboration of specialized stakeholders and …
Interpreting Communication with Migrant Children in a Pediatric Service
This paper presents the results of research on migrant children's participation in pediatric consultations mediated by interpreters. For this purpose, it has drawn on two types of studies. First, it draws on studies on pediatric monolingual consultations showing the challenge of supporting children's exercise of agency and the importance of their parents' authority in producing knowledge about children's health problems. Second, it draws on studi…
Research on Hybrid Integration and Local Policies in the Education System
This article presents a European research project addressing migrant children's participation in the education system in seven countries. The article primarily concerns a part of the research project, based on transcribed recordings of facilitated classroom activities in primary and secondary schools, prefaced by a summary of the research findings that provides a background. The analysed facilitated classroom interactions show forms of hybrid int…
Facilitation of young migrants’ agency in policy lab meeting interactions: A case analysis in an Italian city
Policy Labs are initiatives promoted to improve citizens' participation in the elaboration of institutional policies on specific themes. Policy labs involve the collaboration of interested citizens, specialized stakeholders, and decision-makers, coordinated by at least two facilitators in plenary sessions and small group workshops. Policy Labs can be considered a type of mini-public that aims to enhance deliberative democracy. This paper investig…
Facilitation of adolescents' agency and hybrid integration
This paper is based on a Horizon 2020 research project on the enhancement of migrant children's ability to contribute to the change of their conditions of integration in the education system in seven countries ( Children Hybrid Integration: Learning Dialogue as a way of Upgrading Policies of Participation , CHILD‐UP; GA 822400). The paper draws on data collected in vocational schools, with adolescents aged 14–16, in Italy. It draws on transcribed…
Facilitative practices to promote migrant children’s agency and hybrid integration in schools: Discussing data from Italy, Poland and England
This paper discusses the interactional construction of personal trajectories of migrant children with a focus on its implications for the enhancement of children's agency. The discussion is supported by the analysis of three extracts transcripts of audio or video-recorded classroom activities that illustrate the main forms of facilitation of migrant children's agency as authorship of narratives of personal trajectories of migration, also showing …
The child as a medium. Breakdown and possible resurgence of children's agency in the era of pandemic
This paper deals with the unpredictable outbreak of the pandemic, explaining its impact on the education system, and with structural flexibility as a way to face unpredictability, based on the generalisability and coordination of manifestations of agency. The pandemic has enhanced a narrative of the child as a medium of learning, which undermines children's agency. The example of the research project CHILD-UP (Children Hybrid Integration: Learnin…
Studying Hybrid Identities in Schools: Notes on a European Project
This paper introduces CHILD-UP (Children Hybrid Integration: Learning Dialogue as a way of Upgrading Policies of Participation), a Horizon 2020 project (Grant Agreement No 822400) which started in January 2019. CHILD-UP deals with the integration of children with migrant background in seven European countries. The project is based on the concepts of migrant children’s agency and hybrid identities in relation to the education system. CHILD-UP proj…
Effective Communication and Knowledge Distribution in Healthcare Interaction with Migrants
Modern patient-centered approaches increasingly recognize the contribution of patients' knowledge in interactions with health-care personnel. Effective involvement is exceptionally difficult when patients are migrants with limited command of specialized language. Interactional practices that promote effective distribution of knowledge and access to it are needed: by doctors interacting directly with patients in a shared language and by mediators …
When Clinicians and Patients Do Not Speak the Same Language: A Preface to Interpreting in Health Care
(2021). When Clinicians and Patients Do Not Speak the Same Language: A Preface to Interpreting in Health Care. Health Communication: Vol. 36, When Clinicians and Patients do not Speak the Same Language - Interpreting in Health Care, pp. 1057-1058
Unlocking Luhmann: A Keyword Introduction to Systems Theory
Luhmann's theory is fascinating and complex. It offers incomparably enlightening insights, references and research opportunities, but reveals its utility only after a quite high competence threshold. Using the reticular form of the glossary, this book makes the theory accessible while maintaining its complexity. Without being obstructed by knowledge gaps or by references to concepts presented elsewhere, readers inside and outside sociology get th…
Structural variations of classroom interaction: Implications for the education system
Luhmann's theory allows for a reflection on teaching as interaction system. According to Luhmann, the interaction system of teaching accomplishes the function of the education system, i.e. transforming psychic systems in persons. The education system fixes the social structures of teaching, i.e. conveyance and evaluation of knowledge. However, the unpredictable effects of pupils' reactions to teaching has led to observe the necessity of a unity o…
Facilitare la narrazione di culture di bambini migranti
Using formulations to manage conflicts in classroom interactions
In classroom interactions, facilitation of children’s autonomous choice of acting (agency) may produce conflicts among children. While facilitation does not have the function of managing these conflicts, it shares some types of action with conflict mediation, one of which is formulation. Formulation elaborates the gist of previous utterances and enhances interlocutors’ actions. This paper provides a qualitative analysis of nine transcribed sequen…
Poisoning children: A reflection on the social constraints of children's agency and narratives of sexual abuse
Drawing inspiration from a story of abuses, involving 16 children in 1997-1998, this article deals with the social constraints on children's participation in institutional interactions, in particular for what concerns their accounts of abuse. The article explores the problem of the truthfulness of children's accounts through the lenses of an approach combining a theory of narratives, the concept of children's agency and the analysis of interactio…
Interpreting as mediation of migrants' agency and institutional support. A case analysis
Cross-disciplinary conversation in childhood studies: Views, hopes, experiences, reflections
Self-descriptions in the Education System
Career and Background
Reception and Legacy
Structural Conditions of Education
Why Luhmann Matters to Education
Luhmann and the Future of Education
Social Systems Theory
The Education System
Interpreter-mediated interaction in healthcare and legal settings: Talk organization, context and the achievement of intercultural communication
Studies of dialogue interpreting have shown that interpreters are active participants in interpreter-mediated interaction and that their contributions are not simply a gloss of the interlocutors’ turns. Wadensjö (1998), in particular, has underlined the coordinating and mediating functions of dialogue interpreters. In this paper we analyse the activity of interpreters in the interaction by looking at different ways of organizing sequences of turn…
Niklas Luhmann. Education as a social system
Promoting Self-Expression in Classroom Interactions
Self-expression is a key concept for sociological studies on childhood since it is the cue for children's self-socialization and agency. Hence promoting children's agency and social participation requires their self-expression to be facilitated in their interaction with adults. The analysis in this article of a set of interactions in Italian schools sheds light on how promotion of children's self-expression succeeded or failed through specific ad…
Cross-disciplinary conversation in childhood studies: Views, hopes, experiences, reflections
Forms of mediation: The case of interpreter-mediated interactions in medical systems
This paper analyses the forms of mediation in interlinguistic interactions performed in Italian healthcare services and in contexts of migration. The literature encourages dialogic transformative mediation, empowering participants' voices and changing cultural presuppositions in social systems. It may be doubtful, however, whether mediation can actually be effective in changing the status quo of social systems. My research analyses video-taped in…
Structural Coupling: Simultaneity and Difference Between Communication and Thought
Starting from the theory of the Germen sociologist Niklas Luhmann, it is possible to describe the relationship between communication and individual thought in a new perspective. Thought is the autonomous production of a psychic system. Communication is the autonomous production of a social system. The relationship between psychic systems and social systems can be defined as “structural coupling.” Such a coupling is realized in two steps. First, a…
New Forms of Intercultural Communication in a Globalized World
Communication is the basic concept in explaining globalization. Globalization can be observed as the worldwide expansion of a functionally differentiated European society through intercultural communication. In this society, since the 17th century, intercultural communication has assumed the form of a modernist ethnocentrism based on values such as knowledge, pluralism and individualism. During the 20th century, historical changes created the nec…
The child as a medium. Breakdown and possible resurgence of children's agency in the era of pandemic
This paper deals with the unpredictable outbreak of the pandemic, explaining its impact on the education system, and with structural flexibility as a way to face unpredictability, based on the generalisability and coordination of manifestations of agency. The pandemic has enhanced a narrative of the child as a medium of learning, which undermines children's agency. The example of the research project CHILD-UP (Children Hybrid Integration: Learnin…
Structural variations of classroom interaction: Implications for the education system
Luhmann's theory allows for a reflection on teaching as interaction system. According to Luhmann, the interaction system of teaching accomplishes the function of the education system, i.e. transforming psychic systems in persons. The education system fixes the social structures of teaching, i.e. conveyance and evaluation of knowledge. However, the unpredictable effects of pupils' reactions to teaching has led to observe the necessity of a unity o…
Interpreting as mediation of migrants' agency and institutional support. A case analysis
Facilitative practices to promote migrant children’s agency and hybrid integration in schools: Discussing data from Italy, Poland and England
This paper discusses the interactional construction of personal trajectories of migrant children with a focus on its implications for the enhancement of children's agency. The discussion is supported by the analysis of three extracts transcripts of audio or video-recorded classroom activities that illustrate the main forms of facilitation of migrant children's agency as authorship of narratives of personal trajectories of migration, also showing …
Poisoning children: A reflection on the social constraints of children's agency and narratives of sexual abuse
Drawing inspiration from a story of abuses, involving 16 children in 1997-1998, this article deals with the social constraints on children's participation in institutional interactions, in particular for what concerns their accounts of abuse. The article explores the problem of the truthfulness of children's accounts through the lenses of an approach combining a theory of narratives, the concept of children's agency and the analysis of interactio…
Narratives of memories and dialogue in multicultural classrooms: Analysis of workshops based on the use of photography
This paper presents the analysis of a series of workshops conducted in Italian multicultural classrooms, involving children aged 9–12. The workshops were based on the collection of photos representing the children’s memory and were designed to enhance dialogic facilitation of narratives in the classroom. Starting from the collected photos, a facilitator promoted the interactional production of narratives of memory and identity. The workshops were…
Ways of overcoming linguistic barriers in healthcare intercultural communication
This paper focuses on communication between Italian midwives and migrant patients, in which the midwives deal with the patients’ limited proficiency in Italian language. The paper presents a study conducted in two women's health assistance centres in an Italian province, and is based on seven hours of audiotaped and transcribed interactions between midwives and migrant patients during prenatal check-ups. The analysis concerns those actions in whi…
Intercultural education and communication in second language interactions
This article analyses intercultural education outcomes produced in the setting of teaching Italian as a second language (ISL) in an Italian school. Intercultural education is produced in interactions which are based on specific cultural presuppositions, i.e. expectations regarding learning, role hierarchy and evaluation of student performances. Sixteen hours of interactions associated with ISL teaching in a multicultural classroom were audiotaped…
Structural Coupling: Simultaneity and Difference Between Communication and Thought
Starting from the theory of the Germen sociologist Niklas Luhmann, it is possible to describe the relationship between communication and individual thought in a new perspective. Thought is the autonomous production of a psychic system. Communication is the autonomous production of a social system. The relationship between psychic systems and social systems can be defined as “structural coupling.” Such a coupling is realized in two steps. First, a…
New Forms of Intercultural Communication in a Globalized World
Communication is the basic concept in explaining globalization. Globalization can be observed as the worldwide expansion of a functionally differentiated European society through intercultural communication. In this society, since the 17th century, intercultural communication has assumed the form of a modernist ethnocentrism based on values such as knowledge, pluralism and individualism. During the 20th century, historical changes created the nec…
The relevance of interactions in functionally differentiated society: The contribution of conversation analysis to the theory of social systems
Während die Funktionssysteme der modernen Gesellschaft kulturelle Voraussetzungen schaffen und zur Geltung bringen, die sich in Form von strukturierten Erwartungen in Interaktionen widerspiegeln, können im Gegenzug Interaktionen kulturelle Voraussetzungen beeinflussen, indem sie Beiträge fördern, die zuweilen neu definieren, was jeweils erwartet wird. Die Konversationsanalyse als eine Methode zur Untersuchung von Interaktionen scheint ein besonde…
Promoting Self-Expression in Classroom Interactions
Self-expression is a key concept for sociological studies on childhood since it is the cue for children's self-socialization and agency. Hence promoting children's agency and social participation requires their self-expression to be facilitated in their interaction with adults. The analysis in this article of a set of interactions in Italian schools sheds light on how promotion of children's self-expression succeeded or failed through specific ad…
The Promotion of Children's and Adolescents’ Social Participation in Italy and Scotland
This article presents the theoretical framework, methodology and the main results of a comparative research on the promotion of children's social participation in Italy and Scotland, which was based on politicians’, managers’ and practitioners’ representations. Promotion of participation here is considered a form of social intervention in which adults construct and treat children as citizens entitled to be involved in decision‐making processes, d…
Forms of mediation: The case of interpreter-mediated interactions in medical systems
This paper analyses the forms of mediation in interlinguistic interactions performed in Italian healthcare services and in contexts of migration. The literature encourages dialogic transformative mediation, empowering participants' voices and changing cultural presuppositions in social systems. It may be doubtful, however, whether mediation can actually be effective in changing the status quo of social systems. My research analyses video-taped in…
Children's Citizenships: Limitations and Possibilities of Childhood Sociology in Italy
During the 1970s and 1980s, sociological studies in Italy were exclusively concerned with 'adolescence' as distinct from the general category of 'childhood'. In the 1990s, local administrations and national government promoted new opportunities for children's participation in society, and sociologists began to analyse the various aspects of this participation. Since the 1990s, sociological research has included the legal and political bases of ch…
Dialogic mediation in international groups of adolescents
Mediation is the action of a third party that helps two conflicting parties to reach a mutually acceptable settlement. This action implies promoting the parties’ empowerment and new narratives by facilitating their communication. The analysis of dialogue, and in particular of mediators’ dialogic actions in the interaction, is a way to gain an empirical knowledge of mediation. It shows the ways in which dialogue may promote empowerment and new nar…
Experimental study on Satureja montana as a treatment for premature ejaculation
Interpreter-mediated interaction in healthcare and legal settings: Talk organization, context and the achievement of intercultural communication
Studies of dialogue interpreting have shown that interpreters are active participants in interpreter-mediated interaction and that their contributions are not simply a gloss of the interlocutors’ turns. Wadensjö (1998), in particular, has underlined the coordinating and mediating functions of dialogue interpreters. In this paper we analyse the activity of interpreters in the interaction by looking at different ways of organizing sequences of turn…
Dialogue, agency and experiential learning in international camps
Experiential learning may be conceived as a social communicative process that displays agency, which indicates autonomous construction of meanings during social process. This paper explores social conditions and cultural presuppositions of experiential learning, showing that it can be successfully enhanced through a form of dialogue which empowers participants' personal expression of ideas and emotions. The specific meanings of empowering dialogu…
Intercultural education and communication in second language interactions
This article analyses intercultural education outcomes produced in the setting of teaching Italian as a second language (ISL) in an Italian school. Intercultural education is produced in interactions which are based on specific cultural presuppositions, i.e. expectations regarding learning, role hierarchy and evaluation of student performances. Sixteen hours of interactions associated with ISL teaching in a multicultural classroom were audiotaped…
Formulations in dialogic facilitation of classroom interactions
Formulations are turns of talk that address both interlocutors’ perspectives (in previous turns) and participation (in subsequent turns). This paper examines formulations in interactions, taking place during classroom workshops held with children aged 10–13 and coordinated by facilitators. The analysis shows the ways in which facilitators’ formulations combine reference to the children’s previous statements with the projection of children’s posit…
Intercultural Communication Systems and Discourses of Cultural Identity
The analysis of intercultural communication, which is adopted in mainstream applied linguistics and communication studies, aims to explain the meaning of cultural differences and identities in the present global world. The present analysis of intercultural communication is based on theories of cultural variability, which highlight the basic distinctions between values determining cultural differences and identities. Some studies in applied lingui…
An Interactional Perspective on Interpreting as Mediation
The importance of mediation in dialogue interpreting has been highlighted in a number of recent studies. Franz Pöchhacker has outlined three analytical dimensions to look at interpreting as mediation: (1) linguistic/cultural mediation, including intercultural mediation, is basically a synonym for interpreting; (2) cognitive mediation explains the subjectivity of interpreters; (3) contractual mediation involves facilitation of communication, confl…
Ways of overcoming linguistic barriers in healthcare intercultural communication
This paper focuses on communication between Italian midwives and migrant patients, in which the midwives deal with the patients’ limited proficiency in Italian language. The paper presents a study conducted in two women's health assistance centres in an Italian province, and is based on seven hours of audiotaped and transcribed interactions between midwives and migrant patients during prenatal check-ups. The analysis concerns those actions in whi…
L'entretien clinique en présence d'un interprète: La Traduction Comme Activité De Coordination
Le recours à un interprète est une des solutions adoptées par les institutions de santé en Europe pour faciliter la communication entre des participants de langues différentes. Dans l'interaction médicale, rendre le sens des contributions des participants et leurs fonctions peut impliquer bien plus que traduire le contenu des tours successifs : différents doutes, problèmes, difficultés peuvent nécessiter une élaboration plus complexe dans les deu…
Niklas Luhmann. Education as a social system
Ad-hoc interpreting in international educational settings: The problem of renditions
This paper examines interactions during educational activities in international camps for children, with English used as a lingua franca. Data were collected mostly at different camps in Italy (2006–7), but also in Brazil and the USA (both in 2013). The study focuses on 11 extracts from transcribed video and audio recordings of occasions when Italian children experience difficulty understanding and speaking English. On such occasions, Italian edu…
Self-descriptions in the Education System
Career and Background
Reception and Legacy
Structural Conditions of Education
Why Luhmann Matters to Education
Luhmann and the Future of Education
Sociology (36 works) · Psychology (28 works) · Social science (28 works) · Political science (23 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (14 works) · Pedagogy (14 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Philosophy (13 works)