Members of JustEdu Project at the 2023 HDCA Conference in Sofia

Members of the JustEdu project’s team presented 3 papers at the HDCA Annual Conference “Vulnerability, human development and cooperative re-building in turbulent times”, September 11-13, 2023 in Sofia, Bulgaria and took part in the Summer School on 8th-9th September 2023. A truly global event, the conference was hosted by the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” with more than 300 participants from 60 countries from Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand,…

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New Article: Social Justice at Stake: Education of African Students in Bulgaria 1960–1990 – V. Kachakova & S. Koleva

We are very delighted to announce that a new article: Kachakova, V. & Koleva, S. (2022). Social Justice at Stake: Education of African Students in Bulgaria 1960–1990, Sociological Problems 54(1), 49-70, which was prepared within the JustEdu project, has been just published: CEEOL – Article Detail Abstract With the process of decolonization on the African continent, which began in the mid-1950s, the “battle for the minds and hearts” of formerly…

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The Vignette Method: Design and Application in Qualitative Research – Online Research Seminar of the JustEdu Team

THE VIGNETTE METHOD: DESIGN AND APPLICATION IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Online research seminar of the JustEdu team, 6 October 2021 On October 6, 2021, Raia Apostolova, Vesselina Kachakova, Svetla Koleva, and Radina Chileva – members of the JustEdu project – presented some of the main challenges that stand before researchers who apply the vignette method in qualitative research. The main topics of the seminar covered issues around the main characteristics of…

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The Moral Society – Xxi Congress of the International Association of French Speaking Sociologists, Tunis, 12-16 July 2021 – Conference Participation

Svetla Koleva from the JustEdu project presented a paper “Moral experiences in and between ‘small societies’. The case of graduates from Africa who studied in Bulgaria” at the XXIst Congress of the International Association of French Speaking Sociologists “The Moral Society” held online on 12-16 July 2021 in Tunis. The paper was presented in session 2 of the Research Committee 24 “Small Societies and Knowledge Construction”. Abstract: What are moral…

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