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Agostino Portera, Professore ordinario di Pedagogia generale e interculturale all’Università di Verona; Direttore del Centro Studi Interculturali dell’Università di Verona; Presidente del Corso di Laurea in Scienze dell’Educazione.
Ambiti principali di ricerca: globalizzazione e identità, pedagogia interculturale, consulenza interculturale, libri di testo e pedagogia interculturale, famiglia nella società globale, cooperative learning, educazione alla cittadinanza, competenze interculturali.
Oltre alla realizzazione di numerosi soggiorni all’estero (fra l’altro anche come Visiting Professor presso le Università di Freiburg, Southampton, London, Salonicco, Würzburg, UCLA Los Angeles, OISE Toronto), collabora stabilmente con più riviste italiane e straniere ed è membro del comitato di redazione della rivista “Intercultural education” (Carfax Publishing, London). Dal 1.09.2002 membro del comitato direttivo dell’International Association For Intercultural Education (IAIE).
Full Professor of Intercultural Education at the University of Verona, head of the Center for
Intercultural Studies of the University of Verona (Italy) and director of the Master’s program in
“Intercultural Competences and Management”. He has published ten books and several articles on
immigration, identity, intercultural education and intercultural competence. His latest books,
Manuale di pedagogia interculturale (Handbook of Intercultural Education), Laterza, Roma 2013,
Intercultural and Multicultural Education: Enhancing Global Interconnectedness (co-edited in
2011 with C.A. Grant) Routledge New York, and Intercultural Education and Competences for the
Global World, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2017, deals with opportunities of
intercultural education and competences. He studied psychology in Rome, and pedagogy, German
studies and psychology at the Universities of Mannheim and Freiburg (Germany). He earned a
degree in Psychology at the University of Rome, a Grosses Sprachzeugnis at the University of
Freiburg, and specialized in Person Centered Diagnosis, Counseling and Psychotherapy in Cologne
(Germany). He earned his Ph.D. in Intercultural Education at the University of Freiburg. In 2000 he
was appointed Full Professor of Intercultural Education at the University of Verona. He teaches
General Pedagogy, Intercultural Education and Intercultural Communication in the Faculty of
Education and he is the director of the master’s degree program in Intercultural Competence and
Management. He was Director of the Department of Education from 2003 to 2009 and director of
the Degree in Educational Sciences from 2009 to 2015.
Research areas: migration, globalization and identity, intercultural education, intercultural
counseling, intercultural competence and management, textbooks and intercultural education,
family education in a global society, cooperative learning, intercultural communication,
intercultural counselling and mediation, intercultural education for citizenship. He has engaged in
numerous didactic and research activities in the fields of: migration, globalization and identity,
intercultural education, textbooks and intercultural education, family education in a global society,
cooperative learning, intercultural communication, intercultural counselling and mediation,
intercultural citizenship education, intercultural competence and management. He has taught and
conducted research in Italy (sponsored from Ministry of Education) and abroad (he was Visiting
Professor at the Universities of Würzburg, London, UCLA Los Angeles, OISE-Toronto, Victoria
Wellington). He writes and collaborates with several Italian and internationl journals, and is a
member of the editorial board of Intercultural Education (Carfax Publishing, London) and
Multicultural Education Review (MER). He has given lectures and organized national and
international conferences on intercultural education, including the conference “Intercultural
education and counselling in the global world”, which was held in Verona (15 – 18 April 2013) and
was organized in cooperation with the University of Toronto (Centre for Leadership and Diversity
and Centre for Diversity in Counselling end Psychotherapy), NAME (National-American
Assotiation for Multicultural Education), IAIE (Interantional Association for Intercultural
Education), and EERA (European Educational Research Association).
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CV Agostino Portera 2020_Eng.
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