Profesora_PatriciaDigon EN

I studied Education and Educational Psychology, obtaining my doctorate cum laude from the University of A Coruña with a thesis entitled ‘What Became of Nannerl Mozart?: Gender and Music in Compulsory Education’. Based on this work, I have published several articles, including “An Analysis of Gender in a Spanish Music Textbook” in Music Education Research (2000) and “Gender and Music” in Music and Education (2000), as well as the book What Happened to Nannerl Mozart?: Gender and Music in Compulsory Education, published by Publicaciones MCEP España (2005).

Due to my teaching duties, I began to specialise in the field of media education and information and communication technologies applied to education, carrying out several research projects that analysed media products, studies on their integration in schools, and publishing articles such as “The Decadent World of Disney: A Proposal for Critical Analysis in School” (2006) and “Children’s programming and sensationalist television: To Entertain, Misinform, Under-educate” (2008), both in the journal Comunicar. In these studies, my initial interest in critical pedagogy and the sociology of education remained central.

In recent years, my involvement in research projects on education for global citizenship has helped me to continue focusing my media studies on critical approaches to the curriculum, working to integrate this perspective into the formation of a digitally and media-literate citizenship, committed to social and environmental justice. In this vein, some of my most recent publications are “Educommunication in development and global citizenship education projects” (2019), in a collective work by the Graó publishing house coordinated by Renée DePalma, and “Education as fiction: market ideology and best teacher awards” in the journal Pedagogy, Culture & Society (2020) (https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2020.1801815), “Social mapping as a participatory process for mapping experiences of Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship: a description of the design” in International Journal of Research and Method in Education (2021) (https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727X.2021.1966621) or ‘Dilemmas in integrating technologies in a primary school classroom: the dialogue between teacher agency, the curriculum and digital technologies’ in Pedagogías: an international journal (https://doi.org/10.1080/1554480X.2021.2013235).