Laura Nicolas

Laura NICOLAS is a teacher-researcher in educational sciences and language sciences at the University of Paris Est Créteil. She is also responsible for the Sologna Nature & Culture association which offers a leisure center for children in the forest, as well as a popular university dedicated to education through nature.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) (2010 — 2014)
• Master of Arts Grenoble III University (2009 — 2010)
• Master of Arts Université de Poitiers (2008 — 2009)
• Master of Arts Universidad de Guadalajara (2007 — 2008)
• Bachelor of Arts University of Angers (2006 — 2007)
• Short term training AFPA Limoges (2005 — 2006)

Companies

• President SOLOGNA Nature & Culture (2019)
• Maître de Conférence/Associate Professor of French as a foreign language Université Paris Est Créteil (Paris12) (2015)
• Vice President Asdifle- Association de Didactique du Français Langue Etrangère (2016 — 2019)
• Teacher in Educational Sciences Université de Lille 3 (2013 — 2015)
• Freelance translator UNDP (2010 — 2013)
• French Teacher for Foreign Learners Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) (2010 — 2013)
• French Teacher for Foreign Learners Education Nationale (2010 — 2013)
• French Teacher for Foreign Students HEC Paris (2013 — 2013)
• English-French/Spanish-French translator CCFD-Terre Solidaire - Official Page (2010 — 2012)

RESEARCH TOPICS

• Teacher training
• Devices for teaching and learning “outside the walls”
• Pedagogy called “by nature”
• Analysis of didactic interactions
• “Intercultural training” in a multilingual society

SUMMARY PRESENTATION OF THE RESEARCH

Laura Nicolas' research falls within two complementary fields: that of language teaching (analysis of language mediations in foreign language training for adults) and that of educational sciences (teaching practices in class and outside the classroom, training teachers in so-called pedagogy "by nature").

The central point of this research is an interest in the processes of creating meaning and maintaining the link between the individual-learner (child or adult) and his immediate environment (the human, plant, animal and material elements with which he is in interaction and communication) and distant (the socio-biographical and cultural data that belong to him and from which he interprets the world around him).

SOME PUBLICATIONS

Nicolas, Laura (2019) Acting with and in the group. Language dynamics and teaching logics in the language class , Villeneuve d'Asq, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion.

Nicolas, Laura (2019) “Mediations of teachers and learners in the foreign language classroom: from prescribed tasks to real practices”, FLuL , vol. 48, n°2, pp.102-114.

With Baslev, K. Bronckart, E. and Laurens, V. (2022) Obstacles in language teaching, Paris: Lambert Lucas editions.

With Bretegnier, A. and Delorme, V. (2022) Intercultural training in higher education , Paris: Editions des Archives contemporaines.

Nicholas Laura (2021) Exposure to nature isn't everything, The Conversation

PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION

(in progress, to be published in 2023) Nicolas, Laura: Outside the walls of the classroom. Thinking about language teaching from an eco-social perspective .

SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATIONS

Coordination International colloquium "Practices of education by nature: what are the challenges for the training of education professionals?" (July 18-22, 2022), Ménestreau-en-Villette, France.