Publications and Conferences

Refereed Journal Articles

Monestel Mora, N., Vadeboncoeur, J. A., & Wedger, A. (Manuscript submitted for publication). Expanding cultural-historical scholarship through an examination of linguistic racism: Colonial systems oppressing newcomer youth in British Columbia. In Handbook of cultural historical research: Overcoming injustices through education and learning.

Sam, J., Gallardo, D., Monestel Mora, N., Pethrick, L., Nicol, C., & Hare, J. (in press). A trail to find our voice: Indigenous digital storytelling in a community-based Indigenous teacher education program. The Rural Educator and Journal of American Indian Education [(Re)centering intellectual, cultural, and political sovereignties: Indigenous education in rural spaces].

Vadeboncoeur, J. A., Monestel Mora, N., & Brooke, A. (in press). Critical geographies: Learning through walking methodologies. In Oxford encyclopedia of education. Oxford University Press.

Monestel Mora, N., & Vadeboncoeur, J. A. (in press). Learning as moving through a "fight of emotions": Newcomer youths' stories of immigrating and settling. Language, Culture, and Social Interaction.

Vadeboncoeur, J. A., Montero, I., & Monestel Mora, N. (Eds.). (in press). Making visible the experience of emotions in learning, teaching, and education: Cultural and critical perspectives [Special issue]. Language, Culture, and Social Interaction.

Monestel Mora, N., Iriarte, J., Vadeboncoeur, J. A., Temori, S., & Abraha, M. (2025). Social imagining in "Youth Taking Action": Documenting immigrating and settling through a hybrid youth participatory action research project. Occasional Paper Series, 2025(53).

Monestel, N. (2014). Moral reflection and youth from Los Chiles: Considerations about rural quality education. Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 143, 13–29.

Monestel, N. (2013). Socio-moral development in school-attending adolescents: A few psychosocial considerations about the new Costa Rican rurality. Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos, 39, 395–411.

Tapia, N., Castro, R., & Monestel, N. (2007). The socio-moral development of adolescents in Costa Rica from the model of Gibbs. Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología, 39(3), 449–471.

Refereed Book Chapters

Vadeboncoeur, J. A., Monestel Mora, N., & Brooke, A. (2025). Learning as space becomes place: Critical geographies, walking methodologies, and future-oriented entanglements. In R. J. Helfenbein & H. Taylor (Eds.), Critical geographies in/of education: Revisiting discursive and spatial reckonings. Routledge.

Vadeboncoeur, J. A., Lindquist, K., Monestel Mora, N., Panina-Beard, N., & Kumpulainen, K. (2024). Pathways towards adulthood(s) with a young, neurodiverse adult: Coupling expectations and motives through participation in meaningful places. In L. Bøttcher & C. Mathiassen (Eds.), Dialectic special pedagogy: Supporting the transitions of people with disabilities and atypical development (pp. 121–144). Bloomsbury Academic.

Reports

Vadeboncoeur, J. A., Monestel Mora, N., & Kumpulainen, K. (2024). The Human Service Career Enrichment Program (HSCEP): Mapping a model of networked webs of support. Chilliwack Social Research and Planning Council.

Monestel Mora, N. (2022). Grassroots community organizing for community well being. University of British Columbia, UBC Sustainability.

Rodino, A. M., Barillas, B., Monestel Mora, N., Molestina, M., & Villafranca, M. (2011). X Interamerican Report of Human Rights: Development of policies of school relationships and security based on a human rights perspective. IIDH.

Rodino, A. M., Barillas, B., Padilla, J., Castro, R., Monestel Mora, N., Molestina, M., & Villafranca, M. (2010). IX Interamerican Report of Human Rights: Development of the human rights education methodology in school textbooks: 10 to 14 years of age. IIDH.

Toolkits

Monestel Mora, N., Vadeboncoeur, J. A., Sam, J., & Moghtader, B. (in press). Engaging Young People as Community Co-Educators in University Classrooms: A Toolkit Based Upon the Six Rs for Decolonizing Higher Education.

Castro, R., Monestel Mora, N., Rodríguez, A., & Víquez, N. (2008). Guidelines for psychosocial analysis of videos about violations of human rights. IIDH.

Podcasts

Forde, K., & Monestel Mora, N. (Hosts). (2023, January 22). Linguistic racism: A discussion with Dr. Sender Dovchin [Audio podcast episode]. In Multimedia anti-oppression ally toolkit. University of British Columbia, Decolonizing Together Indigenizing Learning.

Conference Presentations

Learning as moving through immigrating, settling, and documenting stories: Imagining possibilities for Canadian newcomer youth

Monestel Mora, N. & Vadeboncoeur, J. A.. Paper to be presented at 2026 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, USA (April 2026).

Youth Taking Action: Social imagining, immigration and settlement through a hybrid YPAR documentary project

Monestel Mora, N. & Vadeboncoeur, J. A.. Paper to be presented at 2025 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA (April 2025).

Imagination and creativity in art-based YPAR projects: A systematic review

Monestel Mora, N. & Vadeboncoeur, J. A.. Paper to be presented at 2025 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, USA (April 2025).

Research to understand the benefits of granting practices that support grassroots organizing

Monestel Mora, N.. Report presented at 2022 UBC Sustainability Scholars Conference, Research to Action: Advancing Urban Sustainability, Vancouver, BC, Canada (September 2022).

Narrating stories of social injustice and justice: A sociocultural approach to moral dialogues

Monestel, N. & Vadeboncoeur, J. A.. Paper presented at 2019 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada (April 2019).

Responsibility as answerability: Taking action toward social justice

Monestel, N.. Discussion Panel at UBC Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Research Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada (March 2018).

Costa Rican adolescents' secure attachment and moral development: Exploring context and gender differences in prosociality

Monestel, N.. Paper accepted at 2017 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, USA (April 2017).

Colonizing "childhood": A critical analysis of human rights discourse in the UNCRC

Monestel, N. & Vadeboncoeur, J. A.. Paper presented at 2017 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, USA (April 2017).

Costa Rican youths' secure attachment and moral development: Exploring context and gender differences in prosociality

Monestel, N.. Poster presented at 2017 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Austin, TX, USA (April 2017).

Empathy and secure attachment of Costa Rican adolescents from different contexts

Monestel, N. & Tapia, J.. Paper presented at XXXV Inter-American Conference of Psychology, Lima, Perú (July 2015).

Inter-American report on human rights education

Monestel, N.. Symposium at UNESCO, San Jose, Costa Rica (August 2011).

Sociomoral development and attachment styles among adolescents from a rural zone

Monestel, N.. Paper presented at V Conferences on Social Research, University of Costa Rica, San José (October 2010).

Sociomoral development and attachment styles among adolescents from rural areas: Theoretical discussion

Monestel, N.. Symposium at Louvain University and University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica (April 2009).