Person and Education Sciences

SECOND YEAR

Luciana Campomilla

She obtained a four-year degree in Primary Education Sciences at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart on April 28, 2011 with a thesis entitled: "Emotional awareness in pre-adolescents: a research contribution", supervised by Prof. Antonella Marchetti, obtaining the grade of 110/110. A kindergarten teacher, she also obtained a second level Master's degree in Interdisciplinary Counseling for Operators in Personal and Family Care, achieving the grade of: excellent  (director of the Master Prof. Maria Luisa De Natale). She is currently a PhD student in the course of "Person, development, learning. Epistemological, theoretical and applicative perspectives" of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, tutor Dr. Annalisa Valle. Her research interests focus on the development of Theory of Mind and its relationship to the understanding of irony in preschool and school children.

Chiara Gatti

In December 2009, he obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan with a thesis entitled "The concept of person in Peter Singer". Subsequently, in September 2011, he obtained a Master's Degree in Philosophy of the Person and Bioethics, at the same University, with a work entitled "Being born today: between prenatal diagnosis and procreation damage" under the guidance, as in the case of the three-year thesis, of chiar.mo Prof. Adriano Pessina, Director of the University Center for Bioethics of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and Professor of Moral Philosophy. Since November 2011 he has been collaborating in the activities and projects of the Center. She is currently a PhD student in the course of "Person, Development, Learning. Epistemological, theoretical and applicative perspectives", tutor prof. Pessina. Interested in deepening, from a philosophical point of view, the possibilities granted to reason in the moral and political spheres, her research focuses on the condition of the human person within the postmodern society strongly marked by ethical pluralism.

Juliana Ribeiro Macacari

Juliana Ribeiro Macacari, born in São Paulo, Brazil. In December 2005 he obtained a four-year degree in Pedagogy with a thesis entitled "Observing the school  through  children's drawings. Later, in January 2009 he obtained  a first level Master's degree  in Psychopedagogy with a work entitled "Fairy tales and their importance for child development. In December 2012 she obtained a second level Master's degree in Interdisciplinary Counseling for operators in the educational care of the person and the family  with a thesis entitled "The representation of a family in which there are children of separated/divorced parents, supervisor Prof. Maria Luisa De Natale. In the academic year 2012-2013 she obtained a place in the PhD in "Person, development, learning. Epistemological, theoretical and applicative perspectives", of the Doctoral School of Educational Sciences, tutor Prof. Maria Luisa De Natale. His research interests focus mainly on the Analysis of family models and family education practices through the critical reading of a Brazilian telenovela. The Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo and the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan have reached an international co-tutorship agreement that will allow Dr. Macacari to carry out alternating research periods at both institutions:  prof.  Arlete Assumpção Monteiro will participate in the preparation of the doctoral thesis as co-tutor.

Elena Pezzotti

He graduated in Philosophy in 2005 at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan with a thesis in Aesthetics and then continued his studies at the same university at the Faculty of Psychology. In 2010 she graduated in Clinical Psychology with a thesis on moral judgment and moral emotions (supervisors Prof. Gabriella Maria Gilli and Prof. Claudia Mazzucato).

She focuses her research interest on issues related to Justice and Restorative Justice with attention to the social and psychological aspects related to them: the formation of a sense of justice and adherence to the norms, juvenile delinquency, the psychological experience of victims and offenders, the role of the community in the positive prevention of crime and in the treatment of personal and social wounds caused by crime.

His research area also includes the topic of "moral emotions", the role they play in moral reasoning, the influence they exert on conduct and their connection with reflective activity.

She belongs to the Resilience Research Unit, coordinated by Prof. Cristina Castelli, and is involved in studying the link between resilience, norms and deviance.

She is currently a PhD student at the Doctoral School in "Person, Development, Learning. Epistemological, theoretical and applicative perspectives" under the supervision of Prof. Cristina Castelli. Her research project concerns the psychology of victims and the emotional-affective dynamics connected with the processing of the trauma constituted by the crime.

THIRD YEAR

Valentina Cornetti

She obtained a four-year degree in Primary Education Sciences at the University of the Sacred Heart of Milan in September 2010 with a thesis entitled "Emotions and Theory of Mind in the Mother-Child relationship", supervisor Prof. Antonella Marchetti, obtaining the grade of 110/110 with honors. Primary School teacher, she is currently a PhD student in the course of "Persona, development, learning. Epistemological, theoretical and applicative perspectives" of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, tutor Prof. Antonella Marchetti. Her research interests are focused on the study of the construct of Theory of Mind from an evolutionary perspective, in particular in relation to linguistic aspects and the construction of intersubjectivity between adult and child.

Alessandro Rovati

Alessandro Rovati, born in Milan in 1987. In December 2009 he obtained a bachelor's degree in Philosophy at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan with a thesis entitled "After virtue: new ethical perspectives. The contribution of Alasdair MacIntyre in the contemporary philosophical debate". Subsequently, in September 2011 he also obtained a Master's Degree in Philosophy at the same university, this time with a paper entitled "The contribution of Alasdair MacIntyre to the debate on natural law" directed, as in the case of the three-year thesis, by chiar.mo prof. Michele Lenoci, Dean of the Faculty of Education of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan and Professor of History of Philosophy. 

Since 2008 he has been involved in a circuit of international relations coordinated by the Centre of Theology and Philosophy of the University of Nottingham (UK) and the Institute of Theology "Lumen Gentium" of Granada (Spain), which led him to meet and collaborate with prof. Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe of Theological Ethics at the prestigious Duke University in North Carolina (US), under the direction of which he carried out a period of research abroad in preparation for the specialized thesis.

He is currently working on a research project entitled "Liberalism, State Neutrality and the Public Role of Religion" together with my doctoral tutor Prof. Evandro Botto, director of the University Center for the Social Doctrine of the Church and full professor of History of Philosophy in the Faculty of Education. Duke University and Università Cattolica have reached an international co-tutorship agreement that will allow dr. Prof. Stanley Hauerwas will participate in the preparation of the doctoral thesis as co-advisor.

Tiziana Garau

He obtained a bachelor's degree in Education Sciences (degree course in Education Sciences), at the University of Bergamo, with a thesis entitled "The concept of love in Martin Heidegger's philosophy", supervisor Prof. Enrico Renato Antonio Giannetto. Final grade 110/110 cum laude. In July 2011 she obtained a master's degree in Philosophy of the Person and Bioethics, entitled the final thesis "Paradigm of complexity and theories of education", obtaining the final grade of 110/110 cum laude, supervisor Prof. Giuseppe Mari. She is currently enrolled in the first year of the PhD School in "Person, Development, Learning. Epistemological, Theoretical and Applicative Perspectives"  at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan. Her research project moves at an interdisciplinary level between philosophy and neuroscience under the supervision of Prof. Gabriella Gilli.

DISCUSS THE THESIS WORK

Maria Acerbi

In the academic year 2007-2008 she obtained a  Master's Degree at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan in the Faculty of Education, Degree Course in Adult Education and Orientation. Final thesis work carried out in Pamplona at the Institute of Sciences for the Family, Universidad de Navarra, entitled: Transformations and analysis of the concept of family: the Spanish case,  Supervisor Prof. Maria Luisa De Natale, full professor of Pedagogy at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. Rating 110 /110. In the academic year 2009-2010 he obtained a place in the PhD in "Person, development, learning. Epistemological, theoretical and applicative perspectives", of the Doctoral School of Educational Sciences, tutor Prof. Maria Luisa De Natale. Her research interests are mainly focused on the educational relationship between grandparents and grandchildren. The subject of analysis of the work developed so far has been the educational function of grandparents in the current family, the relationships that develop in it and how these are modified. "Every time a child comes into the world, a parent and a grandparent are born: a new gift that unhinges roles to recreate new lives and educational functions, requiring a different definition of relationships in the extended family." The research hypothesis aims to deepen, through a theoretical and an empirical part, the importance and difference between families with grandparents and families without grandparents, with the aim of examining their contribution and educational relationship in the new generations. 

Floriana Bolsieri

She graduated  in Pedagogy on 21/11/1996 at the University of Verona with a thesis entitled "Experiences of peace in Costa Rica". In 2005 he obtained  the title of the II level university master in  "Pedagogical Design in the field of civil and criminal justice" at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. In 2010 he obtained a Master's degree in "Human Development and Environment" from Università Cattolica, promoted by Alta Scuola per l'Ambiente (Brescia).

A tenured teacher at the primary school, in the last two years she has carried out training activities as an internship supervisor at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Brescia. She is currently a PhD student, interested in deepening, in the field  of environmental pedagogy, the  most significant paths related to "training and sustainability" both nationally and internationally.

Francesca Bracci

She received her Bachelor's Degree in Psychological, Social and Occupational Sciences from the University of Padua in July 2007. In the same year he took part in the research "Public decision in a complex horizon" funded by the Ministry of Economy and coordinated by Prof. Erminio Gius and published the results that emerged from the empirical investigation in the article Public decision making. Il caso di un Servizio Formazione/Lavoro, in Gius E., Alfredetti A. (eds.), "Studiare le decisioni pubblici", CLEUP, Padova 2008.

She graduated in Organizational and Marketing Psychology at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in September 2009 with a thesis entitled "Psychosocial analysis of an artisan organization. History and actuality of the Bottega Veneta case".

The PhD Project aims to analyze the processes of knowledge construction, learning trajectories and professional practices located and distributed in communities of practice that move in educational contexts. It is a matter of understanding and analyzing the transformative trajectories that can facilitate and/or hinder reflective processes capable of supporting professionals to become aware of the implicit and explicit epistemic structures underlying their practices, to deconstruct and reconstruct them, to produce forms of knowledge and meanings that can be recognized as frameworks common and expendable for new actions taken in a critical and responsible way. This activity has Prof. Maria Luisa De Natale as Tutor and Prof. Victoria Marsick (Columbia University) as Co-tutor.

Alessandro Buffoli

I obtained a degree in Developmental Psychological Sciences and a Master's Degree in Developmental Psychology and School Intervention at the University of Padua. The project of both theses, carried out under the supervision of Prof. Petter and Dr. Colucci, matured during the six-month internship carried out at The University of Queensland, Brisbane (Au), and was aimed at investigating the meaning of suicide in the Italian gay, lesbian and bisexual community. I am enrolled in the Register of Psychologists of Lombardy and I specialized in Distance Orientation at the Catholic University. My interests concern the field of cultural psychology, referring to the paradigms of constructivism and symbolic interactionism. My current research project aims to investigate the meanings underlying the scholastic-professional choice in people belonging to different ethnic-cultural groups.

Magda Fontanella

I obtained my bachelor's degree in Human and Philosophical Sciences in 2008 with a thesis entitled The ethical proposal of Peter Singer and in 2010 a master's degree in Philosophy of the Person and Bioethics with The concept of man in the age of technology;  both at the Faculty of Education  of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. Now the research program that I have started to carry out (under the guidance of Professor Lucia Urbani Ulivi, at the Department of Philosophy) can be titled Human Identity as a Systemic Structure. The  project is an attempt to apply the innovative concept of system to the study of the human being as such, investigating the possibilities of a philosophical anthropology that, attentive to the contributions of both the human sciences and neuroscience, supports the irreducibility of the human being to his individual capacities and expressions, in the light of a metaphysical tradition that finds its roots in Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas.

They discussed the thesis...

Samuele Busetto

At the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan I first obtained a bachelor's degree in Philosophy with a thesis entitled "A comparison between contemporary interpretations of St. Anselm" (aa. 2005-2006), and then a master's degree in History of Philosophy with a thesis on "Josef Pieper, interpreter of St. Thomas" (aa. 2007-2008). Under the guidance of Prof. Michele Lenoci, supervisor of my previous degree works, I am carrying out a research project that focuses on the thought of John Henry Newman in particular on the role of 'antecedent probabilities', of the 'real'  and the 'notional' in the maturation of the purely personal phenomenon of certainty. This investigation is conducted by clarifying Newman's proposal in the philosophical context he knows, especially with reference to the empiricist field.

My research interests are generally oriented towards the historical and theoretical understanding of contemporary Christian philosophical thought. I pay particular attention to the attempts to revive the so-called philosophia perennis in the light of the challenges of contemporary thought, for this reason I am also very interested in the cultural proposal of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham (UK), directed by Prof. John Milbank.

Paolo Meucci

Bachelor's degree in Educational Sciences obtained in 2005 at the University of Milan Bicocca with a thesis entitled "Educating to silence". Master's Degree in Pedagogy, with a specialization in Pedagogical Counseling for Disability and Marginality, obtained in December 2007 at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, with a thesis entitled "Participation in minors with Tourette's Syndrome and the design of socio-educational interventions: a project for the definition of multidisciplinary paths integrated with the ICF-CY Classification". In 2009 she attended the specialization course in Case Manager – Bioethics, Human Sciences and ICF to design and unite networks with and for people with disabilities at the Catholic University of Milan.  
From 2002 to 2008 she worked at various Educational Services, operating in areas such as: primary prevention, design of rehabilitation interventions for disabled adults and children, environmental education, residential communities for children who have suffered abuse, projects for autism and social rehabilitation projects for the mentally disabled. 
Since February 2007, researcher at the National Neurological Institute "Carlo Besta" in Milan, Scientific Direction. 
Main areas of study and in-depth study:
• Health in children and analysis of care pathways;
• school inclusion;
• Taking charge and pathways of people with disabilities;
• Disability training;
• Cooperation projects in developing countries aimed at studying and defining pathways for taking care of adults and children with disabilities. 

Luca Odini

After graduating in philosophy at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore under the guidance of Prof. A. Ghisalberti, with a thesis on Incarnation and redemption in the work of Anselm of Aosta, I am continuing these studies by developing a research project that aims to highlight the peculiarities of the theoretical contributions of Anselm's anthropology and the resumption of these problems in contemporary philosophical and theological thought.

My research interests focus mainly on the history of medieval philosophy, with particular regard to the early Middle Ages and to themes such as those of the rational investigation of faith and the vestigia trinitatis in the Neoplatonic-Augustinian vein. To this purely textual and historical in-depth study I gladly combine ideas for theoretical investigation in addressing and highlighting peculiarities of this thought also in the contemporary and interdisciplinary field.