Raffaella C. STRONGOLI

Associate professor of Didactics and Special Education and lecturer in Didactics and Methods and Techniques of Educational Design, Organization and Research. PhD in Language Studies and Intercultural Education, founding member and board member of the Association Orti di Pace Sicilia. She has participated in numerous international research projects and scientific and publishing initiatives on the themes of environmental education, educational innovation and valuing differences. In particular, for the project "Task 21 "EdTech & AI: Creating pedagogical material for the 21st century," she was responsible from the pedagogical point of view for an international pilot teaching experiment of flipped classroom in the Course of Methods and Techniques of Educational Design, Organization and Research (CdlM 85 Pedagogical Sciences and Educational Design) from 2019 to 2024. He is a member of the research and working group of the Italian Society of Pedagogy (SIPED) "Pedagogy of the Environment, Agenda 2030, Sustainability of Wellbeing. Next Generation EU, Justice, Educational Resilience." As part of research projects promoted by the University of Catania, she has been a component of several research projects (FIR, FIRD, PIACERI) and is currently PI of the  Starting Grant research project "EcoDidactics, Educational Innovation and Learning Environments" (EcoDiAmbi). The main lines of investigation of her research activity are related to: educational models and teaching practices in an ecological perspective with particular reference to the design of ecodidactics, design of educational spaces and outdoor learning experiences, educational metaphors related to learning-teaching processes, design of medial and flipped learning approach-inspired educational paths, gender, feminist and ecofeminist education.