Expertise

Dr. González-Faraco's principal areas of research include: the Anthropology of Education, the Cultural History of Education, Intercultural Education, Education and Social Exclusion,  HIV/AIDS among Youth, Social Change and Cultural Transmission, the Anthropology of Protected Landscapes, Environmental Education, and the Anthropology of Religion.

He is a specialist in cultural studies of education from a fundamentally anthropological perspective.

Dr. González-Faraco has participated in numerous research projects. The most recent include, among others, the following: 

  • "Cultural Keys to the Expansion of HIV/AIDS among Youth in Spain and the United States: a Transcultural Investigation,"  undertaken with the Department of Anthropology of the University of Alabama (2015), thanks to a Salvador de Madariaga grant awarded by the Ministry of Education of Spain.
  • "The Social and Educational Exclusion of Youth with AIDS" (National Research Project, supported by The Spanish Government, 2010-2014); 
  • "DIVERSE: Diversity as a Viable Improvement Enrichment Resource for Society and Economy" (supported by the European Commission, 2014-2015). 
  • "Social Exclusion and the Education of Children and Youth with HIV/AIDS."
Communities
Anthropology
Degrees
PhD, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain, 1996
BA, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, Philosophy and Educational Sciences, 1980