· Research
AREA 1: early childhood education and care services, in
particular early years education. Analysis of the relationships
involving educators, parents and children in children and parents
settings
AREA 2: professional profiles of childcare
practitioners
AREA 3: Early childhood education for
sustainability
AREA 4: Outdoor learning in the early year
AREA 5: Research methodology, in particular the
phenomenological approach
· Research
interests
Member of the research group “Professionalism and care in
childcare settings: perspectives on educators in-service
training ”. The theme is related to childcare practitioners
professional identity and to their initial/in-service training. The
study is carried out using a mixed-method approach.
(2008)
Member of the research group on the educational museum. The
educational museum is a contest of shared knowledge for learning
and reflecting upon education: researching models for project
implementation.
Research key aims: 1-To identify several models for the
implementation of an educational museum and to assess the project
feasibility, 2-to collect a range of historical materials and
didactic documents related to childhood, 3- to develop a model for
the fruition of the museum on the net. (2008)
Co-ordinator of the research group “The role of
children and parents centres in parenting education ”. The
aim of the study was to investigate and to understand the
day-to-day experience of the families attending the centres for
enhancing parents skills and to promoting good parenting
practices (2006-2008).
