Dr Michele Poretti
Associate Professor, University of Teacher Education, Lausanne, Switzerland
Email: michele.poretti@hepl.ch
Profile
Michele Poretti is associate professor at the University of teacher education in Lausanne, Switzerland. He has a multi-disciplinary academic background, including economics, children's rights, anthropology and sociology. After working for several years in the humanitarian field, he has conducted research into child rights-based policies and practices for more than a decade. His inquiries explore the moral and political logics of decision-makers and professionals, as well as the perspectives of children and young people.
Research
Publications
Poretti, M. (2025). Les transformations de l’école publique pendant la pandémie de Covid en Suisse. Dans S.-A. Alix (Dir.). Crises de l’éducation. Perspectives internationales (pp. 133-148). Grenoble, France : Presses Universitaires de Grenoble.
Poretti, M. (2025, janvier). Entre visible et invisible : les inégalités socio-économiques à l’école et en formation d’enseignants. Dossier du mois. Association romande et tessinoise des institutions d’action sociale (ARTIAS).
Poretti, M. (2020). Adolescence, History of. Dans D. T. Cook (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies (pp. 12-13). Thousand Oaks, United States: Sage Publications. Online: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12162/4516
Poretti, M. (2020). International Child Saving. Dans D. T. Cook (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies (p. 988). Thousand Oaks, United States: Sage Publications. Online: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12162/4519
Poretti, M. (2019). Rights, participatory spaces and the daily fabric of children and young people's voices in Switzerland. Children's Geographies, 17(4), 467-479. Online: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12162/2050
Poretti, M. (2018). Unexpected allies : Expanding the theoretical toolbox of the children’s rights sociologist. Dans C. Baraldi, & T. Cockburn (Eds.). Theorising childhood. Citizenship, rights and participation (pp. 111-134). Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan/Springer.
Poretti, M., Hanson, K., Darbellay, F., & Berchtold, A. (2014). The rise and fall of icons of ‘stolen childhood’ since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Childhood, 21(1), 22-38.