:Several of us recently met together at the EARLI 2025 conference in Graz. We were invited to presented a symposium on failure as part of our 4 year Earli Centre for Excellence in Research Grant. The symposium consisted of four papers and a discussant. The title of the symposium was:
Views on Error and Failure in Different Cultural and Educational Contexts
- Focusing on Failure: Supporting Professional Development, Reflection, Learning of Informal Educators (Adam Maltese (Presenting Author); Lauren Penney (Co-Author); Kelli Paul (Co-Author); Alice Anderson (University of Pittsburgh); Amber Simpson (Binghamton University)
- Promoting Error Climate in the Classroom: A Quasi-experimental Study with Secondary School Teachers (Maria Cristina Matteucci (Presenting Author); Costanza Dini (Co-Author); Annalisa Soncini (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
- Error Handling in Students with Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior Problems (Viktoria Pöchmüller (Presenting Author)
- What Do We Mean by Failure? A Systematic Review of Measuring Failure in Educational Contexts (Cheng Pang (Presenting Author); Elizabeth Peterson (Co-Author); Kane Meissel (Co-Author); Jiali Lin (Co-Author)
- Chair: Maria Tulis and Discussant: Susanne Narciss

Several of us met together at the EARLI 2023 conference in Greece. We were invited to presented a symposium on failure which was titled –
Different responses to errors: Perspectives from several educational contexts.
EARLI 2023 Symposium Papers

Error climate and alienation from teachers: A longitudinal analysis in primary school
- Gabriele Steuer (Presenting Author)
- Alyssa Laureen Grecu (Co-Author)
- Julia Morinaj (Co-Author)
Supportive error feedback fosters students’ positive emotions and motivation
- Annalisa Soncini (Presenting Author)
- Maria Cristina Matteucci (Presenting Author)
How you talk to your kids about setbacks and failures matters
- Elizabeth Peterson (Presenting Author)
- Sharma Tanvi (Co-Author)
- Amy Bird (Co-Author)
- Elaine Reese (Co-Author)
- Annette Henderson (Co-Author)
- Varun Ramgopal (Co-Author)
- Susan M B Morton (Co-Author)
The value of (learning from) mistakes in teacher education in Finland and Germany
- Annika Breternitz (Presenting Author)
- Maria Tulis (Co-Author)