Ramón Flecha

Ramón Flecha was born in 1952.^{[citation needed]}

In 1967, he collaborated in the creation of a cultural centre of activities in the most deprived area of his city of birth, Bilbao. He was a member of the clandestine opposition against Franco's dictatorship from 1969 until democracy arrived in Spain.^[9]

In 1978 he moved to a neighbourhood of Barcelona where there were shacks and founded La Verneda Adult School – Sant Martí.^{[citation needed]} He worked with Paulo Freire for more than twenty years.^{[citation needed]} He developed the practice of dialogic literary gatherings as a form of critical pedagogy.^{[citation needed]}

In 1991 Flecha founded the CREA research centre at the University of Barcelona.^{[citation needed]}

In 1997 he published his first book that included the theory of dialogic learning, subsequently published in English and in Chinese.^{[citation needed]}

In 2018, he advised the evaluation of the social impact of science in the European Framework Programme.^{[10][non-primary source needed]}

Alain Touraine wrote a promotional blurb for Flecha's 2000 book Sharing Words:

At times, as Ramón Flecha demonstrates, knowledge goes from bottom to top, when individuals without degrees produce and invent cultural analyses based on their own experience.^[11]

Ulrich Beck wrote the preface to Contemporary Sociological Theory, co-authored by Flecha in 20223, saying the book

combines rigorous research with facts, including the intention for a dialogical utopia. But this broad intention is presented in the book, joining theory with critique and empirical research with praxis, in such a charming way that it grabs its readers and captures them under its spell.^[12]

His contributions have been awarded by various institutions, some examples;

• 2007 Doctor Honoris Causa by the West University of Timișoara
• 2012 Gold Medal for Merit in Education of the Junta de Andalucía
• 2016 Research Award for his contribution to schooling and academic success of roma students – Instituto Cultura Gitana
• 2019 Catalonia Award of Sociology 2019 – Associació Catalana de Sociologia
• 2019 Muncunill Social Innovation Award – Ajuntament de Terrassa

Some of his publications are;

• Flecha, R. (2021). ‘Second-Order Sexual Harassment: Violence Against the Silence Breakers Who Support the Victims’, Violence Against Women, pp. 1–20.
• Puigvert, L., Gelsthorpe, L., Soler-Gallart, M., & Flecha, R. (2019). Girls’ perceptions of boys with violent attitudes and behaviours, and of sexual attraction. Palgrave Communications, 5(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0262-5
• Flecha, R., Soler, M. & Sordé, T. (2015).Social impact: Europe must fund social sciences, Nature, 528, 193. doi:10.1038/528193d
• Flecha, R. (2015). Successful Educational Actions for Inclusion and Social Cohesion in Europe. New York: Springer.
• Flecha, R. (2014). Using mixed methods from a communicative orientation: Researching with grassroots Roma. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 8 (3):245-254. doi:10.1177/1558689814527945
• Flecha, R. & Soler, M. (2014).Communicative Methodology: Successful Actions and Dialogic Politics. Current Sociology, 62(2): 232–242. doi:10.1177/0011392113515141
• Flecha, R., & Soler, M. (2013). Turning difficulties into possibilities: engaging Roma families and students in school through dialogic learning. Cambridge Journal of Education. doi:10.1080/0305764X.2013.819068 This paper obtained the 2013 Best Paper Prize of Cambridge Journal of Education.
• Touraine, A.; Wieviorka, M.; Flecha, R. et al. (2004). Conocimiento e identidad. Voces de grupos culturales en la investigación social. Barcelona: Roure
• Flecha, R. (2000): Sharing Words. Theory and Practice of Dialogic Learning. Lanham, M.D: Rowman & Littlefield, also available in Spanish and Chinese.
• Castells, M.; Flecha, R.; Freire, P.; Giroux, H.; Macedo, D. & Willis, P. (1999): Critical Education in the New Information Age. Lanham, M.D: Rowman & Littlefield. Foreword by Peter Mclaren. Also available in Spanish and Portuguese.
• Flecha, R. (1999). Modern and postmodern racism in Europe: dialogic approach and anti-racist pedagogies Archived 1 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Harvard Educational Review, 69(2), 150–171.