Aneta Mechi

Aneta Mechi is a senior lecturer at the University of Geneva within the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences. Her research interests include perception, reasoning, decision-making processes, and action in specific situations, including interindividual and intergroup relations in heterogeneous settings. Bridging social psychology, higher education, and teachers’ training, she focuses on factors enabling or constraining learning, inspiration, and arousing potentials to elaborate the basis for sustainable pedagogy and conflict resolution. Additionally, she is interested in developing original teaching tools, accessible learning resources, and trials of new approaches toward creativity, innovation and forward thinking in order to identify new concepts and to elaborate custom-designed curricula for learning, teaching and managing diversity and inclusion.

Publications

New Educational Mission: School as Students' Aspiration Builder
Aneta Mechi. © 2022. 14 pages.
The last chapter proposes to go not only beyond the epistemic dimension to improve it, but also beyond the lesson content. The German's lesson shows how easily we can exceed...
Decreasing School Violence, Bullying, and Delinquency With Epistemic Inclusion
Aneta Mechi. © 2021. 267 pages.
When asked what inclusion means, most people immediately think about relatedness: being accepted by a group or having the opportunity to belong. However, there are multiple needs...
The Role of Social Cognitive Flexibility in Effective Teaching
Aneta Mechi, Margarita Sanchez-Mazas. © 2016. 30 pages.
In response to teachers' uncertainty and helplessness facing some types of cross-domain educational situations (CDESs), such as aggressive or impolite behavior, lack of...