Roberta Silva received her PhD in Education from the University of Verona (BA and MA at Milan University). She has been Research Assistant and Associate Lecturer and she is currently Temporary Assistant Professor at the Verona University. Her main research fields are on side epistemology and qualitative methods and on the other side Cognitive Cultural Studies and their relationship with Audience Studies.She is currently member of AERA (American Educational Research Association), SIPED (Società Italiana di Pedagogia e Didattica), SIRD (Società Italiana di RicercaDidattica) and CRED (Center of Educational and Didactic). Among her publications:Mortari, L., & Silva, R. (2017). Analyzing How Discursive Practices Affect Physicians’ Decision-Making Processes: A Phenomenological-Based Qualitative Study in Critical Care Contexts. INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing and Silva R. (2013), "Representing Adolescent Fears: Theory of Mind and Fantasy Fiction." International Research in Children's Literature 6.2.
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Topic | Description | Research area |
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Epistemology of qualitative Inquiry | In order to fund an empirical rigorous research in the field of the human sciences, it has been elaborated a qualitative epistemology that has as epistemic core: Bateson’s ecology, naturalistic inquiry, phenomenology and pragmatism. A specific attention is devoted to the elaboration of an “empirical phenomenology” (Ep). It has been developed a specific version for the healthcare environment. |
Research methods in the Human Sciences
Theory and practice of education |
Teacher Education | The expression “Teacher education” refers to a research field, characterized by a plurality of voices, which is focused in reflecting on the nature of teaching and learning in the teachers' professional trainings. |
Training and Organisations
Education |
Service learning and Community engagement | To deep theory and practice of Service learning and Community engagement in scientific debate, and in their application in educational contexts, schools and universities. To build a model of Service learning in the university courses, and to monitor, through empirical researches, their educative value relating to students learning, and their performative value for school and community contexts. |
Training and Organisations
Theory and practice of education |
Title | Starting date |
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REsearch at the SERvice of Educational fragilitiesS (RE-SERVES) | 8/19/19 |
Transnational Youth Forum on the Right to Education: Building a Brighter future for the Children on the Move | 11/1/18 |
Office | Collegial Body |
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member | Collegio Didattico di Scienze della Formazione Primaria - Department Human Sciences |
Comitato del Corso di formazione per il conseguimento della specializzazione per le attività di sostegno didattico agli alunni con disabilità nella scuola dell'infanzia | |
member | Comitato scientifico del Corso di aggiornamento professionale in Promuovere la lettura e la letteratura a bambini, ragazzi e adolescenti (6-14/16 anni): formare lettori motivati e critici (entry level/livello base) - Department Human Sciences |
Comitato scientifico del Corso di formazione per il conseguimento della specializzazione per le attività di sostegno didattico agli alunni con disabilità nella scuola PRIMARIA | |
Comitato scientifico del Corso di formazione per il conseguimento della specializzazione per le attività di sostegno didattico agli alunni con disabilità nella scuola secondaria di PRIMO GRADO | |
Comitato scientifico del Corso di formazione per il conseguimento della specializzazione per le attività di sostegno didattico agli alunni con disabilità nella scuola secondaria di SECONDO GRADO | |
member | Comitato Scientifico del Corso di Perfezionamento e di aggiornamento professionale in Promuovere la lettura e la letteratura dalla scuola primaria alla scuola media: formare lettori motivati e critici (entry level/livello di base) |
member | AQ management group for Master's degree in primary education - LM85 bis - Collegio Didattico di Scienze della Formazione Primaria - Department Human Sciences |
member | Commissione Terza Missione |
researcher | Consiglio del Dipartimento di Scienze Umane - Department Human Sciences |
Rappresentante della macro-area "Scienze umanistiche" | Quality Assurance Board |