Person and Education Sciences

Chiara BELLOTTI

In February 2003 he graduated in Educational Sciences, specialising in training processes at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Brescia. In 2005 he attended the University Specialization Course: EXPERT IN FAMILY EDUCATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS, directed by Prof. Luigi Pati.
From 2004 to 2008 he coordinated the provincial project: Training and updating of  social welfare operators of the territorial welfare system, of the Province of Brescia, on the basis of Law 328/2000 art. 7 "Framework Law for the implementation of the integrated system of social interventions and services".
From 2008 until today he has been tutor of the internship activities of the Faculty of Training and Education, at the Brescia branch of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.
She collaborates with the Chair of Social Pedagogy and the Cespef (CENTER FOR PEDAGOGICAL STUDIES ON MARITAL AND FAMILY LIFE) of the Catholic University, of the Brescia campus, taking part in research and training activities.
In recent years she has been coordinator of  training and research projects related to health and safety training in the workplace, aimed at private, national and international, and public companies in the area, including the Local Health Authority (ASL Brescia).
She is currently enrolled in the PhD in Personal and Educational Sciences, Education (XXX cycle), Tutor Prof. Luigi Pati, with a research project dedicated to the analysis of European good training practices regarding health and safety in the workplace.

Edoardo BRUNO

Born in Milan on 11 March 1987, in February 2011 he obtained a three-year degree in Historical Sciences at the University of Milan. In the academic year 2011/2012 he obtained a master's degree in Historical Sciences at the same university. He is currently a PhD student in Personal and Educational Sciences, specialising in History and Literature of the Modern and Contemporary Age at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, tutored by Prof. Danilo Zardin. His research project focuses on the figure of Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, a Jesuit who lived in the eighteenth century.

Silvia CONTI

Silvia Conti, born in Milan in 1989. In 2012 he obtained a three-year degree in Education and Training Sciences at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart with a grade of 110/110 cum laude. At the same university, she carried out her curricular internship in the Centre for Studies and Research on Education Policies and obtained a master's degree in Pedagogical Sciences in 2014 with a grade of 110/110 cum laude. In the same year he attended an advanced training course in European planning at Venice International University. 
She is currently coordinator of the second level master's degree in "Management of Educational and Training Institutions" promoted by the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart together with MIP, Politecnico di Milano.
She is now a PhD student in Personal and Educational Sciences (cycle XXX), specialising in Pedagogy (Education); tutor Prof. Renata Maria Viganò.
It deals with in-depth study of the scientific foundations, European and national policies, programs, actions and experiences of the school system and the territory. In particular, his research focuses on the theme of educational success with specific reference to the transition from secondary school to university.

Sara CORNA

He obtained his bachelor's degree in Philosophy in July 2011 at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, supervised by prof. Michele Lenoci, with a thesis entitled Heidegger reader of Nietzsche: European nihilism. She continued her studies at the same university, graduating with honors in April 2012-2013 with a Master's Degree in Philosophy, with a thesis entitled Deleuze reader of Nietzsche: desire and will to power, supervisor prof. Francesco Botturi. She is currently enrolled in the Doctoral School in Personal and Educational Sciences, at the address "Person, development, learning". His research intends to deepen, under the supervision of Prof. Silvano Petrosino, the philosophical debate around the subject-word theme, paying particular attention to the critique of the Lacanian notion of subjectivity in the thought of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida.

Paolo CUVIELLO

Paolo Cuviello studied at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. He is still a PhD student in Education and Personal Sciences with a specialization in: Person, Development, Learning. Theoretical and applicative epistemological perspectives. Under the guidance of prof. Adriano Pessina (Professor of Moral Philosophy and Director of the University Center for Bioethics for the Catholic University of Milan) and Prof. Elena Colombetti (Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy and Researcher at the University Center for Bioethics), will develop research focused on the concept of the person in the contemporary era. He will carry out an in-depth analysis of the historical reconstruction that the term person has undergone over the centuries, necessary to understand the semantic development and the divergences of the different theoretical approaches to bioethics in the current debate. Addressed from an anthropocentric perspective, attentive to the unity of the person, as a way of interpreting and understanding the relationship with the other, its analysis will focus on the doctor-patient relationship in view of the identification of a dimension of meaning in the time of illness.

The candidate is a nurse, lives in Turin and has been working as a nurse since 2001; His professional experience has developed starting from the field of anesthesiology and the critical area in general (emergency room, emergency operating room, resuscitation and peritoneal dialysis). Over the years of work, she has extended her interests in educational and relational skills by working with the person undergoing chronic-continuous dialysis treatment. In this context he has been involved in education both from the point of view of clinical care and from the point of view of empirical and theoretical research. In February 2012, he obtained a master's degree in Philosophy of the Person and Bioethics with a thesis on Advance Treatment Declarations (thesis supervisor prof. Adriano Pessina). He has participated in many seminars and conferences held by the University Center for Bioethics, in Cattolica in Milan. She currently holds the role of Clinical Nurse Educator. A new nursing look, recently arrived in Italy, which deals with enhancing clinical and pedagogical-assistance skills in the process of care and management of the sick person.

Lorenzo DE CANI

In 2008 he graduated in Economic and Social Sciences at the Bocconi University of Milan with a thesis in methodology and alternative economic theories, entitled "Critical review of de Finetti's contributions on the use of the mathematical method in economics", under the supervision of prof. Giorgio Lunghini.

He then turned his interests towards socio-cultural issues, obtaining a master's degree in Sociology at the University of Milan - Bicocca in 2011, thanks to the thesis "Hegemony in European newscasts", which sees Prof. Giorgio Grossi as supervisor, with a grade of 110/110.

Between 2011 and 2013 he continued his training as part of the II level Master "Qualitative methods for research applied to social and marketing survey" at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan.

At the same time, and until the end of 2013, he held the role of qualitative research assistant and project manager for international research at the social and market research company Lorien Consulting s.r.l. in Milan.

In 2012 he began his collaboration, which is still active, with the Research Center on Media Education, Information and Technology (Cremit) of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, as a young researcher.

PhD student in Personal and Educational Sciences, pedagogical address, at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan under the tutorship of prof. Pier Cesare Rivoltella, his main research interests are in-service teacher training and professional development strategies.

Eleonora Claudia Mirella FORNASARI

Graduated with honors in Modern Philology from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, in 2011 she obtained a Master's degree in Writing and Production for Fiction and Cinema at the same university.
After some work experience in the USA, she was the author of children's television programs broadcast on RAI Due and RAI Gulp and screenwriter of children's animation series for Italy and the United Kingdom.
A freelance journalist, specialized in television and film criticism, she has collaborated in the past with the magazine Familiaria, on issues concerning children and adolescents and is still co-author of the annual volumes Choose a film (Ares editions).
She dealt with the relationship between children and the media in the essay Difficulties and resources of television communication reserved for pre-adolescents in the volume La preadolescenza. Evolutionary passage to discover and protect (edited by Francesca Mazzucchelli and published by Franco Angeli) and has held media education lessons at some Milanese high schools.
She was a lecturer in the module "Reciprocal influences and connections between web and television in the era of digital revolution", within the course of "Digital Journalism and Digital Media in Italy" by Professor Stefania Garassini, at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. 
She is currently a doctoral student at the Doctoral School in Personal and Educational Sciences, historical-literary address. Her research project, under the supervision of Professor Angela Ida Villa and Professor Armando Fumagalli, focuses on the representation of female protagonism in children's literature, with a particular focus on adaptation for the small screen. The project also intends to investigate how the perception and representation of adolescence has changed, in the transition from traditional forms of storytelling to modern transmedia developments.

Elisabetta LOMBARDI

In March 2011 she obtained a three-year degree in Psychological Sciences and Techniques of Development and Health in Developmental Age, at the Sapienza University of Rome, with a thesis entitled "Family Adoption and Attachment". In July 2014, she obtained a master's degree in Developmental, Educational and Well-being Psychology with a thesis entitled "The representation of the economic crisis in second and fourth year high school students, illiteracy or cognitive obstacles?", supervisor Prof. Anna Maria Ajello.

She is currently a PhD student at the Doctoral School "Personal and Educational Sciences" of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan,  for the curriculum "Person, Development, Learning", tutor Prof. Antonella Marchetti, co-tutor Prof. Anna Maria Ajello.

The main research topics concern financial education at school, in particular the study of the decision-making and cognitive processes implemented by the child in the representation of the economic-financial system.

Federica ROSSETTO

Federica Rossetto, born in Como in 1987, in 2010 obtained a three-year degree in psychological sciences and techniques at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan with a paper entitled "Neurobiological bases of maternal attachment behavior", supervisor Prof. D. Perani, with a grade of 110/110 cum laude. 
In 2012 she graduated with honors in Clinical Psychology at the same university, with an experimental thesis entitled: "Attachment style and functional magnetic resonance: an experimental study", supervisor Prof. L. Sarno. 
She is currently a PhD student at the School of Personal and Educational Sciences, curriculum "Person, development, learning" at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan and the Don Gnocchi Foundation in Milan, with a project in the field of psychology of the elderly related to the study of the Theory of Mind in the healthy elderly population affected by neurodegenerative diseases.

Benedetta ZIGLIOLI

Benedetta Ziglioli, born in Milan in 1990, in December 2012 obtained a three-year degree in Modern Literature at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan with a paper on "Evangelical presences in Dante's Inferno", with Prof. Giuseppe Frasso as supervisor. In September 2014 she obtained a master's degree in Modern Philology at the same university with a thesis entitled "Saggio di commento a L'estate di San Martino di Carlo Betocchi", with a grade of 110/110 cum laude and supervisor Prof. Maria Teresa Girardi. She is now a PhD student at the School of Personal and Educational Sciences, research address "History and Literature of the Modern and Contemporary Age". The research project includes the critical edition of the unpublished correspondence between Carlo Betocchi and Giovanni Raboni (1953-1980).