Andrés
González Novoa

Professor in the area of Theory and History of Education. PhD in Education from the ULL (2012), he obtained the D.E.A. in 2005, having graduated in Pedagogy in 2000. He holds the title of Director of Social Centres (2010), the Expert in Immigration (2008) and the Professional Certificate in Teaching and Vocational Training for Employment (2012). Pedagogical Coordinator of the International Storytelling Festival of Los Silos since 2004, Training Coordinator of the Spanish Red Cross (2003-2004), Director of the Emergency Device for Unaccompanied Minors of the Canary Islands (2006-2011), Coordinator of the Socio-Cultural Dynamisation Programme of the Penitentiary Institution of Tenerife (2013), Pedagogical Coordinator of the Training and Employment Institute Escola (2013-2014), Coordinator of the Socio-Labour Insertion Programme of IDEO (2014), teacher of Labour Orientation, Environmental Awareness and Gender Equality of the Canary Islands Employment Service (2014-2015), coordinator of the artistic prison pedagogy programme Prisoner Words since 2016 and pedagogical advisor of the Tenerife Volunteer Office (2017). Author of children's and youth literature: He has published 14 books that are part of the ‘Proyecto Leer Canarias’ linking more than two hundred public centres of the islands. Among his works are ‘Mi primer cuento’ (3rd edition), ‘Los cuentos no regalan besos’ (2nd edition), ‘Los cuentos no tienen miedo’ (2nd edition), ‘Los PathoS. S’ (2nd edition), “Jaque de Reinas” (2nd edition), “El colour de los sueños” (2nd edition), “La coleccionista de besos”, “Indignadita”, “Cuentos para leer en el siglo XXI” (3rd edition), “La bailarina de papel”, “Voces del Malpaís”, “El libro prohibido”, “Misterio entre Muros”, “Bandera y Garfio” and “Cuentos para viajeros espaciales”. He is a member of the editorial board of the collection ‘A toda vela’ of Maresía Editorial, editorial secretary of the international magazine of oral narration Mnemósyne and member of the editorial board of the bulletin of the Spanish Society of History of Education. He has published scientific articles in Educational Sciences (Switzerland), History of Education & Children Literature (Italy), En-claves del Pensamiento (Mexico), RIESED (Mexico); Pedagogía y Saberes (Colombia), Historia de la Educación (Salamanca), Qurriculum (Tenerife) and Clépsidra (Tenerife). He has participated in specialised publications in the field of the theory and history of education with chapters in publishers referred to in the SPI2022 Dykinson (4), Octaedro (1), Grao Editorial (3), Laertes (29), UNED (27) She has coordinated and participated in the international research projects Erasmus + Programme of inclusion for Migrant People at risk of social exclusion (PIPE) (2022-2025), Erasmus + KA205 My cultural heritage & My Future (2019-2022), Erasmus + KA201 Urban Games as tool to strengthen literacy skills among prisoners (2022-2023), Erasmus + KA204 The chrysalis and the butterfly: Autobiographical paths of penitentiary pedagogy (2020-2023), Erasmus + Jean Monet HAIKU (Enhancing EU Internationalization and knowledge from the university) (2020-2023) and the Erasmus + Capacity Building in the field of Higher Education (KA2) TOGIVE (Transanlantic Open Goverment Virtual Education) project. She has coordinated the international publications ‘Handbook. Autobiographical strategies in Penitentiary Pedagogy. The Chrysalis and the Butterfly Project’. Laertes S.L. de Ediciones, 2023, ‘Repensando Tenerife desde la SOStenibilidad’. La Laguna: Proyecto Envite 2030, 2019 and ‘Best Practice in European Union and Latin American Collaborative MOOC Education’. Río Subterráneo (Mexico). She is a member of the research groups of Critical Pedagogy PEDACRI and History of Education, Educational Policies, Gender and Cultural Studies NEXUS, both at the University of La Lagun