Education

People with expertise in this area
Research interests

Antonietta De Vita: Associate Professor
Paola Dusi: Full Professor
Marcella Milana: Associate Professor
Marta Milani: Temporary Assistant Professor

Agostino Portera: Full Professor
Chiara Sità: Associate Professor
Marco Ubbiali: Temporary Assistant Professor

Research interests
Topic	People	Description
Adolescenza: bisogni e servizi educativi.	Paola Dusi	Studi e ricerche sono volti ad indagare le nuove forme assunte dall'adolescenza nel contesto contemporaneo contrassegnato dall'affermarsi della famiglia affettiva.Particolare attenzione è rivolta ai bisogni educativi degli adolescenti e alle relazioni tra questi ultimi, genitori, istituzione scolastica e servizi educativi sul territorio.
Global active citizenship and partecipation	Antonietta De Vita	The global changes we are experiencing alter the meanings and practices of citizenship and participation, requiring spaces of thought to formulate new hypotheses for active participation, cohabitation and visions of the future. The crisis of politics and citizenship in the West shows the end of the traditional democratic forms and the emergence of elements for new configurations. My interest has focused on new citizenship practices starting from the urban contexts in an ecological and ecofeminist perspective.
Intercultural Competence	Marta Milani Agostino Portera	Analysis of intercultural educational practices and methodologies. Analysis of the concept of intercultural competence in the fields of education, intercultural mediation, business, social work and healthcare.
Cooperative Learning	Marta Milani	Study of cooperative learning as a learning method-methodology through social mediation for the promotion of educational contexts of well-being and fully inclusive.
Comparative and International Education	Marcella Milana	Examination of sources, workings, and outcomes of education systems, as well as leading education issues, from comprehensive, multidisciplinary, cross-national, and cross-cultural perspectives.
Gender education	Antonietta De Vita	Education, teaching and formation are fields strongly marked by the female presence, but the language, the symbolic, the knowledge, the organisational and managerial structures seem to reflect still neuter-masculine paradigms. These are based on hierarchizing dualisms embodied in degrees of power (nature/culture, public/private, production/reproduction, rational/emotional, object/subject, normal/abnormal). Urgent becomes to assume a posture of thought and action that takes into account the fact that the world is one but inhabited by women and men, with the variety of their unique human experiences and sexual orientation, and with expectations, desires, capabilities and educational needs that cannot be homologated.
Phenomenology of recognition	Paola Dusi	the phenomenology of recognition, insofar as it is adopted as a fundamental relational and socio-political modality of democratic and egalitarian societies, and as a prerequisite for the emergence of processes of education within the family and at school.
Intercultural Mediation and Counseling	Marta Milani Agostino Portera	Analysis and study of (inter)cultural mediation and intercultural counseling to know how to move between different cultural frames (recognizing clues of contextualization and to act effectively within a specific cultural frame) both - and above all - to know how to interact effectively in the relationship with culturally different people.
Pedagogy of work-related learning	Antonietta De Vita	The pedagogy of work-related learning considers the nature of contemporary work and employment in terms of training and education, and its implications for the individuals and organisations involved. The transformations we have witnessed in forms of work and the learning processes associated with them can be studied from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. In my research I am particularly interest in the learning landscape that has emerged in the context of work in “different”, and solidarity- and social justice-based economies, movements that attest to a period of transition from growth-centred economic and production models to more sustainable approaches that are in greater harmony with the living world.
Education Policy	Marcella Milana	Examination of statements, and of the underlying decision-making processes, aimed at promoting the change of education and training systems, in order to achieve desired solutions in response to perceived social problems.
Qualitative Research in education (particularly focused on school and families)	Paola Dusi	Qualitative research in education refers to a wide range of studies focusing their attentions on the educational contexts through the use of qualitative methods that allow to describe phenomena from the point of view of the subjects involved in them. My research activities are aimed at investigating educational contexts and issues, in particular in the following fields: ethical education, practices of engaged pedagogy, education and care in educational contexts.
Parent support	Chiara Sità	The research area concerns the actions aimed at supporting parents, put into act by professionals at school and in educational settings. These actions (information, counseling, parent training, group discussion) design contexts where parental identities and roles are negotiated in relation to specific cultural models of family, parenting and gender.
Theory of ethical education	Marco Ubbiali	To deep and develop Socrates-Plato and Aristotle's ethical position, in the light of the philosophy of care and in dialogue with the position of Paul Ricouer, in order to found a pedagogical vision that can orientate educative paths and empirical researches.