Role
Professor of Child and Family Pedagogy, Philosophy of Education, and Education on Affectivity and Sexuality at the University of Bologna.
Bio
She holds a PhD in Education and is Associate Professor of General and Social Pedagogy and Philosophy of Education at the Department of Educational Sciences at the University of Bologna. She teaches Philosophy of Education, Early Childhood Education, and Education in Affective and Sexual Relations at the Department of Educational Sciences, and teaches Sexology for the Degree Program in Midwifery.
Her research focuses on theoretical reflection, including complexity theories and, in particular, the construction of knowledge and the thought of Gregory Bateson (on whom she wrote the monograph "The Structure that Connects. Gregory Bateson in Education," ETS, 2011, winner of the first Italian prize from the SIPED Pedagogical Society). She also specializes in Early Childhood Education, with a particular interest in the protection and safeguarding of children's rights, the risks associated with the phenomenon of adultization, and the use of philosophical inquiry practices to educate children in critical, creative, and ethical thinking.
She specializes in education on relationships, affectivity, and sexuality, with a focus on enhancing diversity for inclusion and empowerment.
On the empirical research front, her interests have focused on issues of early childhood education and healthcare, the alliance between schools and families, and, currently, issues related to the media exposure of minors by their parents (spectacularization, window dressing, sharenting). On these topics, in 2013, together with Mariagrazia Contini, she produced the video documentary "Corpi Bambini/Sprechi di Infanzia" (www.corpibambini.wordpress.it), and in 2016, she published (again with Mariagrazia Contini) a volume of the same title, published by Franco Angeli. In 2016, she also published the monograph "L'infanzia inattuale. Perché le bambine e ragazzi hanno diritto al rispetto" (Inappropriate Childhood: Why Children Have the Right to Respect).