Authors

Istanbul Bilgi University

Turkey

Kenan Çayır is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Istanbul Bilgi University. He participated into human rights education seminars of EIP Slovenia and the Council of Europe, and teacher training seminars of Gürkaynak Citizenship Institute and received certificates in this field. He works as a teacher trainer on citizenship and human rights education. Çayır also serves as a consultant for human rights projects of several NGOs. His research focuses on Islamic movements, human rights education and textbooks. His publications include Eğitim, Çatışma ve Toplumsal Barış: Türkiye’den ve Dünyadan Örnekler, (Education, Conflict and Social Peace: Examples from Turkey and the World), Kenan Çayır (ed.), İstanbul, Tarih Vakfı Yayınları, 2010, and Islamic Literature in Turkey: From Epic to Novel (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan 2007)

St. Kl. Ohridski University of Sofia

Bulgaria

Professor of sociology, Department of European Studies

Doctor; PhD in Psychology from Porto University; Assistant Researcher* at CIIE – Center for Educational Research and Intervention, Porto University.
Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto
Rua do Dr. Manuel Pereira da Silva
4200-392 Porto, Portugal.

http://sigarra.up.pt/fpceup_uk/WEB_PAGE.INICIAL
Email: pferreira@fpce.up.pt
* This position is funded by FCT, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.

Universität Köln
Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Institut für Vergleichende Bildungsforschung und Sozialwissenschaften: Politikwissenschaft
Gronewaldstr. 2
50931 Köln

Deutschland

Privatdozentin und akademische Rätin des Lehr- und Forschungsbereichs Politikwissenschaft des Instituts für Vergleichende Bildungsforschung und Sozialwissenschaft der Humanwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Köln

University of Porto

Portugal

Associate Professor with habilitation

Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences

University of Lausanne
Institute of Psychology
Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
UniL-Dorigny
1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
T: +41. 21. 692.32.54/60
Email: Nathalie.MullerMirza@unil.ch
www.unil.ch/unisciences/NathalieMullerMirza

Nathalie Muller Mirza, PhD, is a researcher and lecturer in social and cultural psychology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her main research interests focus on (inter) cultural dimensions of thinking and learning processes in various contexts and on argumentation in education settings.  

Doctor; PhD in Ethics and Contemporary Philosophy from University of Santiago de Compostela and currently involved in Post-doctoral studies on the thinking of Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy at the Faculty of Humanities, Coimbra University; Associate Professor at School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto.
IPP - Escola Superior de Educação do Porto
Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 602
4200-465 Porto, Portugal
http://www.ese.ipp.pt/international/
Email: hugomonteiro@ese.ipp.pt