Actualité
International Research Seminar. Thursday, November 27 COLLECTIVE NARRATION AND COMMUNITY-BASED PRIOR LEARNING, from environemental to mental health
Date(s)
le 27 novembre 2025
Lieu(x)
Villa Rabelais, Tours (FRANCE)
This seminar examines the interdependence between narrative practices and their effects on the formalization of experiential knowledge, at the scale of collectives and communities of life, practice, citizens, and patients. It has both an interdisciplinary and international dimension and brings together researchers from the fields of education, anthropology, sociology, and psychology. The case studies are located in Japan, France, Brazil, and Argentina. These diverse settings allow, through narrative research, for an understanding of experiential knowledge acquired at the collective level in the contexts of environmental and mental health. Morning : Collective narration and community-based prior learning, from environmental to mental health in Japan. With Dai Matsumoto (Tohoku University), Masayoshi Morioka (Ritsumeikan University), Miki Noda (Ritsumeikan University), Chiara Ramponi (Tohoku University), Sophie Houdart (CNRS), Jérôme Lafitte ( University of Tours), Hervé Breton (University of Tours). Afternoon : Collective narration and community-based prior learning. Researchaction from mental to environmental health. With Thomas Sigaud (Université de Tours, Caroline Giraudeau (Université de Tours), Yumi Garcia dos Santos (University Fedéral of Minas Gerais, Brésil), Natalia Duarte Cáceres ( Vice Ministry of Water and Basic Sanitation (VASB), Bogotá, Colombia), Hervé Breton (University of Tours).