Emanuela Guarcello

Emanuela Guarcello is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences at the University of Turin. She teaches Institution and History of Contemporary Pedagogy at the Degree Course in Childhood and Primary Teachers Education. Her research field referred to the critical and creative skills, the socio-emotional skills, the capacity for judgment in childhood and the critical relationship with AI and AI technologies.

Abele Longo

Abele Longo is Senior Lecturer in Translation in the Department of Education at Middlesex University, London. His main research interests relate to ecopedagogy, ecocriticism (poetry and cinema), audiovisual and literary translation.

His publications include:

with E. Guarcello (eds.) School Children as Agents of Change: Raising up Critical Thinking and Judgment in the Early Years. Routledge, 2023; Danilo Dolci – Environmental Education and Empowerment. Springer, 2020; with E. Guarcello, Children-AI Technologies Relationship (CAIRƐ). Educating to a

Reflective and Critical Relationship with AI Technologies in Primary School; in REN Research on Educational Neuroscience 2023, Italian Journal of Health Education, Sport and Inclusive Didactics, V. 7, N. 1, 2023; with E. Guarcello Educazione di qualità a scuola. La promozione del pensiero e del giudizio critico a confronto con l'insegnamento di Danilo Dolci, in M. Parricchi and

A. Vaccarelli (eds.) (2022) Sentieri di umanità nel mondo: cittadinanza, partecipazione, educazione. Zeroseiup, San Paolo d’Argon (BG); Roma, viandanza dell’esilio. Rafael Alberti tradotto da Vittorio Bodini, in N. di Nunzio and F. Ragni (eds) (2014) “Già troppe volte esuli” Letteratura di frontiera e di esilio, Morlacchi Editore, Perugia; The Cinema of Ciprì and Maresco: Kynicism as a Form of Resistance, in W. Hope (ed) (2010) Italian Film Directors in the New Millennium, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge; Subtitling the Italian South, in J. Díaz-Cintas (ed) New Trends in Audiovisual Translation, Multilingual Matters, Bristol, 2009; Palermo nei film di Ciprì e Maresco, in R. Lumley and J. Foot (eds) (2007), Le città visibili, Il Saggiatore, Milan.

Cristina Daju

Cristina Daju is a graduate of master and bachelor degree Painting study programs at West University of

Timisoara, Faculty of Arts and Design. Her PhD studies in visual arts developed at the same university, concluding her research about Florentine Renaissance’s Symbolic Imagery. As a visual artist, her works evolve around the idea that the artistic act implies an active element having the power to communicate,

interact and involve the public, transitioning through different mediums as painting, installation art, video, performance. Her artworks are approaching subjects concerning community, ecology, questioning systems and personal experiences of everyday life. Thus, the process becomes more

important than the final work, and the artistic action is found between the new space created between the static and performative object. Presently, she is a Senior Lecturer at the Visual Arts Department of Faculty of Arts and Design, WUT where she is developing her art research with the students.

Giada Maria Barrella

Giada Maria Barrella is a museum guide at the Museum of Illusions of Florence. She took the master’s degree in “Economic sciences for the environment and culture” at the University of Naples “Federico II”. She is now a research fellow at the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences at the University of Turin. 

She is working on the creation of the virtual exhibition, on the importance of virtual exhibition and technologies for children’s education, on the relationship between art and technologies and on the evolution of technologies for creating works of art.  

Tanja Cerruti 

Tanja Cerruti is Associate professor of Institutions of Public Law at the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences of the University of Turin.

Since 2021 she is qualified to hold the position of Full Professor of Constitutional Law.

Her scholarly interests include the process of European integration (among the main topics: the EU enlargement, the political criteria imposed to the candidate Countries for the accession to the EU, the relationship between integration and national identities, the EU space), Italian territorial organization (among the main topics: the share of powers between State and Regions, the role of local Authorities in the protection of social rights) and the protection of human rights.

Federico Farini

Federico Farini is professor of Sociology at the University of Northampton, where he leads the Centre for Psychology and Sociological Sciences, and Visiting Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. For more than 15 years, several successful research bids have made it possible for Prof Farini to apply knowledge and skills to empirical investigations at local, national and international levels. He has been researching professionally through national and international projects in areas such as  the inclusion of migrant children and young people in education, youth subcultures and cultural studies, migrant-friendly services, conflict management, intercultural education, client-centred interpreting in healthcare and education, and the role of digital media in the diffusion of knowledge. Please find Federico’s research repository here: https://pure.northampton.ac.uk/en/persons/federico-farini

Maria Adelaide Gallina 

Maria Adelaide Gallina is associate professor in General Sociology at the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences of the University of Turin. She carries out research on socio-educational topics concerning the relationship between young people and risk in postmodern society, with particular attention to the phenomena of bullying/cyberbullying and physical and behavioral addictions. Participate in activities related to the use of educational robotics carried out at the Luciano Gallino Laboratory of Simulation of Behavior and Educational Robotics.

Smaranda Moldovan

Smaranda-Sabina Moldovan is a Romanian visual artist and PhD assistant at West University, Faculty of Arts and Design. Her research is focused on consumerism and reflecting social life in art.Born in 1986, in Timișoara, Romania, and currently lives and works in her hometown.During 2017-2020, she developed her doctoral research under the guidance of Prof. Univ.Dr. Habil Dacian Andoni. She presented her doctoral thesis entitled “From object to painting. From painting to object.” in December 2020.She has been a member of the Union of Visual Artists in Romania, Timișoara branch, since 2017.Her activity consists of numerous group events such as national and international exhibitions, salons and creative symposia (Italy, France, Finland, Poland, Turkey, Sweden, Malaysia, Korea, Hungary). She also worked in community art developing social projects both nationally and internationally.

 Selena Notaro

Selena Notaro is a primary school teacher at the I.C. Ferraris of Vercelli, PhD student in "Learning Sciences and Digital Technologies" XXXVIII, University of Foggia (assignment to the University of Turin) and collaborates with Roberto Trinchero and Daniela Robasto, professors at the University of Turin, in research and experimentation activities. He is a contract professor of supplementary teaching for the degree course in Professional Education at the University of Turin. She is part of the Edurete Research and Training team with Prof. Roberto Trinchero as scientific coordinator and is responsible for teacher training for the courses "Designing, training and evaluating by skills" and "Designing the vertical curriculum by skills"; holds training courses for teachers on new assessment in Primary School and on cognitive enhancement for Sanoma Italia. Among his publications: an example of application of the experiential learning cycle in primary school “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Using a children's book as a supplementary background for teaching, http://www.edurete.org S. Notaro (2007) and "CAE activities to improve text comprehension" (From p. 85 to p.120). In: Trinchero R. (edited by) FamiImpact research report 2. Milan: Franco Angeli (2022).

Claudia Petacca 

Claudia Petacca is a photographer and painter, currently a primary school teacher, graduated in painting from the Albertina academy of Turin and has achieved a master in photography for communication from IAAD Turin. 

Since 2019 she has been the owner of the “Barton Photographer” photographic studio located in Pinerolo (TO). 

Francesca Pileggi 

Francesca Pileggi is currently a PhD student at the Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences.

Her research topics mainly concern different fields: transversal skills with particular interest for critical-creative skills, the relationship between the human being and artificial intelligence technologies, philosophical and aesthetics practices for school education.

Angela Scollan 

Dr Angela Scollan is Associate professor in Early Childhood Studies at Middlesex University, where she obtained her Ph.D. with research on pedagogical innovation to promote children’s agency in the classroom. Previously, she has worked as Foundation Degree Coordinator in a Further Education College and as a Ofsted Inspector. Since the early 1990s, Angela has worked directly with and for children, positioning her practice within a transdisciplinary approach and as a rights-based advocate.  Her teaching philosophy, research and writing focus on the child first, touching on an array of themes relevant to education and care: adults-children interactions; rights-based pedagogies, leadership and management, curriculum studies for Early Years Education, critical education studies, social work with young children, services-families’ partnership. As an activist against educational disadvantage, Angela has worked with many local authorities in projects to support inclusion and equality in education across England and the EU, towards enhanced social mobility. Please find Angela’s research repository here: https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/profile/4258