Cohort: POLS 39

Topic of the thesis: Intersectional feminist education: a proposal to contrast gender and sexual minorities' oppression and social injustice.

Abstract: Schools are contested sites: they are regarded as having a crucial role in shaping young minds and young citizens, yet they often end up reproducing some of the discriminatory dynamics at play in our societies. Education, in its conception, presupposes a precise separation in competencies between teaching moral principles, usually the parents' responsibility, and teaching book knowledge, a task of schoolteachers. Education, nevertheless, is never a neutral business. My Ph.D. project aims at providing a possible combination of radical pedagogies with the education rights framework to produce what would be called an "intersectional feminist education". Such an education would be best suited to fight against gender oppression and inequality because it would propose a model to diffuse educational authority while at the same time encouraging participation, political activism, and facilitating the process of creating collective conscience and care around issues of discrimination.

Research interests: Intersectional feminism, Queer studies, Norm-critical education, Critical pedagogies, Critical legal studies, Philosophy of law, Education for political participation, Neutrality and partiality in education, Collective educational responsibility

Graduated from: Università degli Studi di Milano

Degrees obtained: University of Milan - University "Vita-Salute" San Raffaele (MA); University of Bologna (BA), Utrecht University (Erasmus+)

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