Associate Professor of Social Pedagogyin Scientific
Department of Education "Giovanni Maria Bertin".
University of Bologna
Education
1992 Degree in Pedagogy at the Science of Education
Faculty - University of Bologna – with full marks,
distinction (110 out of 100, lode). Thesis in The Intercultural
Pedagogy, title: “Presenza, identità, cultura dell'infanzia
immigrata” – “Presence, identity and culture of immigrated
childhood”. Tutor Prof. Antonio Genovese.
2000-04 PhD in Intercultural Pedagogy, Tutor Prof. Antonio
Genovese, at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna .
Title of thesis: “Io, in questa scuola, mi sono sempre sentita
diversa” - “At this school I always felt
different”.
2004 Visiting scholar at the
Laboratory of Sociology (Lames) and at the University Institute of
Teacher Training, University of Provence (France).
2006-2008 Research subvension at the
Science of Education Department “G. M Bertin”, University of
Bologna.
Professional involvement
I realised more professional experiences in the following
context:
Educator of handicapped children and handicapped adults
Educator with gipsy comunities
Pedagogist, responsable of educational and school services
Teacher of Kindergarden and primary school.
Academic and didactic employment
2004-2008 Teaching contract as director of intercultural
laboratories at the Faculty of Science of Education
2006-2007 Teaching tutor of Intercultural Pedagogy which
includes assistance during exams for students, direction of
seminars and lessons, co-tutoring of degree thesis etc.
2006-2007 Professor at the Special University Course to qualify
as a teacher in elementary and Kindergarden schools and secondary
schools, Educational Science Faculty, Bologna.
2006-2007 Teaching tutor of Seminar of Intercultural
Education
2007-2008 Teaching tutor of Intercultural Pedagogy
2008-2020 Professor of Intercultural Pedagogy at the
Educational Science Faculty, Bologna.
Institutional assignments
2017-18 Director of the Master "Management and organization of educational institutions in multicultural contexts", University of Bologna
Editorial bord
From 2004 Member of the editing commitee of Intercultural
Education Review.
From 2015 Member of the Scientific Committee of la
melgrana, Franco Angeli.
2018-19 Collaboration with the journal "Scuola dell'infanzia" of the Giunti Editor for the Intercultural Education section.
Prize
2016 - Italina Prize of Pedagogy, Siped
Didactic employment outside the University
1994-2020 Formation course in the field of Intercultural
Education, as professor and spokeswoman at conferences and seminars
that have been involved nursery educators, kindergarden teachers
and primary school teachers in differents districts of the Emilia
Romagna and of other italian regions.
2011-2012 Collaboration with Istituto degli innocenti
(Firenze)
Conferences
2006-2015 Participation in the national and international conferences for the presentation of educational research in a multicultural context:
2015 Partecipation national conference SIPED for the presentation of the researc h "Kindergarden, primary school and intercultural dialogue"
2015 Partecipation in the international conference AIFREF for the presentation of the research "Engaging children and migrant parents in the learning process at school: coeducative approch European research project EMPAC".
2017 Partecipation in the intenational conference IAIE -International Association for Intercultural Education- for the presentation of the continuation of the research Empac "School success of children with migrant back- grounds".
Research projects
1990-1991 Research to experiment an intercultural project at the
Kindergarden school of the City of Bologna with the collaboration
of the Science of Education Departement, University of Bologna
1991-1993 Research to experiment an intercultural Project at the
primary school (Quarto Inferiore – Bologna) coordinated by the
Science of Education Departement
1992-1993 Observation Research that implicated a group of
forgeign chidren at the Kindergarden school of the city of Bologna
with the collaboration of the Science of Education Departement,
University of Bologna.
2002-2004 Observation Research that implicated a group of
foreign children of the primary school. Tutor Prof. Antonio
Genovese.
2004-2005 Science of Education Department Research that focused
on : “The educational care at the early childhood services in
multicultural contexts” directed by Prof. Maria Grazia Contini e
Prof. Milena Manini.
2006-2009 Department Research "Infanzie e famiglie come
snodi di possibilità e criticità socio-educative" directed by prof.
Mariagrazie Contini
2009-2010 Project studies and research on students with
dsabilities, children of immigrants, in collaboration with the
Education and Policies of differences of the Municipality of
Bologna, directed by prof. Roberta Cardin
2012-2013 Action research conducted in kindergartens of the
district Navile, within the agreement between Department of
Training and the Comune di Bologna
2013-2015 Action research conducted in kindergartens and primary
school in Comune di Bologna within the European project EMPAC
(Engaing Migrant Parents and children).
2015-2016 Action research conducted in some primary schools of Bologna (IC 4 and IC15) about the co-education betwen teachers and partens in Comprensive Sc
2015-2016 Research to analyze the somatic representations of the difference in the books for children in some kindegartens of Bologna and of the region Emilia Romagna.
2015-2017 Action research conducted in some kindergartens and primary school of Treviso within in project RICE coordinated by Jan Pierre Pourtois.
2016-17 Action research with the kindergartens (FISM) of Bologna and the province focusing on the theme of parental participation in the school.
2017-20 Action-research of european project Justice: RISE Towards best practices on inclusive education of Roma Children, coordinated by dott.ssa MariaTeresa Tagliaventi of the Dipartiment of Science of Education, University of Bologna.
form 2015 Coordinator of Erasmus+ Programme with Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge, UK).