Research
PhD programme in Methods of Inclusion, Mentoring and Competence Development in New Contexts of Knowledge and Work, 39th cycle, Pegaso Digital University (since 2023).
Doctoral research
Mentoring and strategic competences
Doctoral thesis (in progress) Mentoring e competenze strategiche nei contesti educativi. Un modello pedagogico per l’inclusione e l’autodirezione formativa
The doctoral research develops a pedagogical model of mentoring for strategic competences, inclusion and self-direction in learning across educational contexts, including digital environments.
Along the way it has proposed a three-level mentoring model (educational, workplace and intergenerational digital) to counter functional illiteracy, and the MSI model, which treats mentoring as a sensemaking infrastructure in complex organisations. Co-authored work addresses the diagnostic assessment of existential disorientation and the design of workshops for strategic competences.
Related work
- Una proposta formativa per sviluppare l’“imparare a imparare” nei formatori della IeFP
- Phronesis. La progettazione di un laboratorio educativo per lo sviluppo delle competenze strategiche
- Mentoring for inclusion: A relational model for learning, agency and social participation
- Mentoring and organisational learning in complex contexts: The MSI model for leadership beyond boundaries
- Educare gli abiti in risposta al disorientamento esistenziale: Verso un dispositivo di valutazione diagnostica
- Mentoring e competenze chiave: Un modello per l’inclusione e la prevenzione dell’analfabetismo funzionale
- Mentoring from a synecological perspective: A research path for sustainable education
Literature review
Scoping review on mentoring
A scoping review, reported following PRISMA-ScR, maps studies on structured mentoring and competence development in educational contexts. The manuscript is under review.
Related work
AI in teaching and learning
AI tutoring and mentoring
Generative AI tutors are automating part of the work of teaching. This strand separates tutoring from mentoring and proposes a framework for AI tutors that attend to digital well-being, arguing that the relational dimension of education cannot be automated. It includes work on AI-supported personalised teaching and on emotion, algorithms and learning.
Related work
- AI tutoring and mentoring between proto- and deutero-learning: Habits, internal feedback, and assessment anxiety
- The irreducible dimension: Toward an integration of automated tutoring and mentoring in AI-supported education
- Artificial intelligence and personalized teaching: New paradigms for learning
- Emotion and learning, algorithms and ethical forgetting: A necessary reflection in the age of digitization
Ef.Ate project
Self-assessment and peer mentoring in secondary school
Within the Ef.Ate project, this strand brings together school-to-work pathways (PCTO), e-portfolios and educational mentoring to develop the strategic competences of students in the last two years of upper-secondary school. Self-assessment with the Learning Strategies Questionnaire (QSA) is the starting point for designing workshops and peer-mentoring pathways towards self-direction.
Related work
- Dall’autovalutazione all’azione: Competenze strategiche, laboratori e peer mentoring per l’autodirezione
- Il contributo dell’e-portfolio allo sviluppo delle competenze strategiche e dell’identità professionale nella scuola secondaria di secondo grado
- Building self-awareness in school guidance: Strategic skills, e-portfolio and educational mentoring
- The contribution of teachers to the development of students’ professional identity through the e-portfolio as a transformative tool
- Constructing the self in school guidance: Strategic competencies, e-portfolio, and educational mentoring