Assistant Professor
PAED-01/B Storia della pedagogia
valentina.d.ascanio@uniroma2.it
Positions held
From A.Y. 2015/2016 to A.Y. 2016/2017 Post doc (M-PED/01), Department of Sciences and Technologies of Formation, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Education
International PhD in Educational Sciences of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” in co-tutorship with the University of Granada, Faculty of the Educational Sciences
Teaching Positions
A.Y. 2021/2022: History of Twentieth century Education
From A.Y. 2016/2017: General and Social Education – I.C. in Human Sciences, Degree Course in Dental Hygiene – Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
From A.Y. 2017/2018: Education – PF24, University of Rome Tor Vergata
A.Y. 2019/2020: Contemporary History of Educational Services – Intensive Course for Socio-pedagogical educator, Anicia Formazione and University of Rome Tor Vergata
Awards
2014, winner of Margaret Sutherland CESE Women’s Network Prize awarded by CESE Comparative Education Society in Europe for the essay: Performativity and visibility: shapes, paths and meanings in the European education systems, edited by Sense Publishers
Fields of research
Higher education in the European and Italian context from a historical-comparative perspective and with particular attention to some intellectuals of the 20th century, such as Thomas Mann, José Ortega y Gasset, Jean-François Lyotard
Editorial boards
Member of the editorial boards of the Journal I Problemi della Pedagogia, Editor-in chief Ignazio Volpicelli, Anicia, Rome
Member of the editorial boards of the book series Studi sull’Educazione – Co-Editors in Chief Carlo Cappa and Giuseppe Sellari – Editrice UniversItalia, Rome
Selected international colloquia and papers
Uno sguardo comparato per la formazione degli insegnanti: percorsi e tendenze (A comparative view for the teacher education: paths and tendencies)
Paper presented at the National Conference SIPed -Italian Society of Education: La formazione degli insegnanti. Problemi prospettive e proposte per una scuola di qualità aperta a tutti e tutte (Teacher education. Problems, perspectives and proposals for a quality school for everybody), University of Roma Tre, 27-29 January 2022
La formazione iniziale dei docenti nello scenario europeo: diversità, sfide e cautele.
(Initial teacher education in the European context: diversity, challenges and cautions)
Paper presented at the Round table discussion: Il sistema d’istruzione e la formazione insegnanti (System education and teacher education), organized by SICESE – Italian Branch of Comparative Education Society in Europe, Fondazione Agnelli and the Department of History, Humanities and Society, Tor Vergata, University of Rome, 12 March 2021
Guardare l’università di oggi, ipotizzare quella di domani: la didattica universitaria quale prospettiva d’analisi (To look at university of today, to imagine that of tomorrow: university teaching as a perspective of analysis)
Paper presented during the webinar: L’università dei riformismi permanenti: metodi e strumenti di analisi (The university of the continuous reformisms: methods and analysis tools), Gabriele d. Annunzio, University of Chieti, 3 November 2020
Per una governance della didattica universitaria: qualità, eccellenza e buone pratiche. Politiche europee e dinamiche nazionali. (For a governance of the university teaching: quality, excellence and good practices. European policy and national dynamics)
Paper presented at the Study day on the innovative university teaching, Department of History, Humanities and Society, Tor Vergata, University of Rome, 2017
Governing the governance: rhetoric, influence and educational space
Paper presented at the CESE Conference (Comparative Education Society in Europe), Freiburg, 10-13 June 2014
Using the network: performativity, visibility and new scenes
Paper presented at the CESE Conference (Comparative Education Society in Europe), Salamanca, 18-21 June 2012