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MONICA FEDELI

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Position

Professoressa Ordinaria

Structure

Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sociologia, Pedagogia e Psicologia Applicata - FISPPA

Address

VIA BEATO PELLEGRINO, 28 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498271713

E-mail

monica.fedeli@unipd.it

Monica Fedeli

Since 2008 she has been working at the University of Padua where she carries out research and teaching activities.
Full professor of didactics, teaching and learning methods and organizational development.
The main areas of research in which she is engaged are: organizational development, human resource management, training methodology in formal and non-formal contexts, faculty development, work-related teaching and learning dialogue didactics and school-to-work alternance, active learning and teaching transformations in higher education and gender equity in professional contexts.
She has developed her skills in science by participating and coordinating research groups at the national and international level in collaboration with European and American universities conducting research and studies in the areas highlighted above.
At the professional and research level, she has been coordinating as Principal Investigator of numerous national and international competitive projects
She has been an adjunct professor at Michigan State University. U.S.A. and at Julius Maximilians University of Wurzburg, Germany and Visiting Scientist and Professor at California University Berkeley School of Education, and Boston University.
She has published more than 150 contributions in volumes and in national and international journals on the following topics:

- Faculty development and continuing education
- School work alternation
- Employability and work-related teaching and learning
- Participatory teaching, power, dialogue and participation
- Human resource management and development
- The value of experience and generative learning
- Active Learning and educational innovation
- Organizational development and educational innovation
- Transformative learning and the reflective dimension
- Gender equity and organizational development strategies
- Neurodidactics

Editing and publishing activities
She is the editor of the series: "Adult learning strategies, methods and contexts" and the series: "Profession Trainer. Pensa Multimedia, and co-editor of the journal: Excellence and Innovation in Teaching and Learning. Research and Practice. Member of the scientific committee of the journals: Educational Reflective Practices and Professionalism and Studies.

Some Academic Responsibilities:
Vice-Rector with responsibility for Third Mission and Territorial Relations.
Member of the doctoral college in "Pedagogical, Educational and Training Sciences" at the University of Padua.
Member of the steering committee of the doctoral college in "Pedagogical, Educational and Training Sciences" of the University of Padua.
Member for the Pedagogy section of the Working Group for Internationalization.
Member of selection committee of outgoing students of the University of Padua at Boston University.
Member of the selection committee of incoming visiting professors and scholars at the University of Padua for the area of Human Sciences.
Member of the EUA European University Association TPG group on the topic: Continuous Development of Teaching Competences.
Component of the INest (Interconnected, North -East Innovation Ecosystem) project (PNRR) regarding the creation of start-ups and spin-off and for continuing education.

Notices

All students can contact the teacher at the following e-mail address
monica.fedeli@unipd.it for information related to the courses

Office hours

  • Wednesday from 14:00 to 15:00
    at Studio 23, via Beato Pellegrino, 28
    L'orario e la modalità di ricevimento possono essere concordate con la docente scrivendo alla seguente mail: monica.fedeli@unipd.it

Teachings

Publications

Publications

Books, Authored or Co-Authored


1. Bierema, L.L., Fedeli M., Merriam, S.B (2025). Adult Learning. Linking Theory and Practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass

2. De Rossi, M., Fedeli, M. (Eds.) (2022). Costruire percorsi di faculty development. Lecce: Pensa Multimedia.

3. Fedeli, M., Tino, C. (2020). Guidelines on teaching practices. A didactical guide for instructors and practitioners to innovate practices in higher education and adult learning. Lecce: Pensa Multimedia.

Chapters in books:

1. Fedeli, M, Taylor W. E. (2024). Collaborative learning and group work. In J. Coryell, L.M. Baumgartner, J.W. Bohonos (Eds.) Methods for facilitating adult learning. Strategies for enhancing instruction and instructor effectiveness (117-136). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003446019

2. Araneta, M., Tino, C., Fedeli, M. (2023). Policies and Online Learning Environment for Adult Education and Higher Education’s Emerging Needs. In L. Breitschwerdt, J. Schwarz, S. Schmidt-Lauff (Eds.) Comparative Research in Adult Education Global Perspectives on Participation, Sustainability and Digitalisation (125-142). Wbv Publikation.

3. Fedeli, M. (2022). Lo sviluppo professionale del docente universitario. Tradizione, Potere e Collaborazione. In M. De Rossi & M. Fedeli (Eds.) Costruire percorsi di faculty development. (49-67). Lecce: Pensa Multimedia.

4. Fedeli, M., Liotino, M., Taylor, E.W., Araneta, M.G. (2022). Enhancing Learning in Higher Education Using MOOC: The Experience of the University of Padua. In: G. Casalino, M. Cimitile, P. Ducange, N. Padilla Zea, R. Pecori, P. Picerno, & P. Raviolo (Eds.) Higher Education Learning Methodologies and Technologies Online. HELMeTO 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1542. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96060-5_16

5. Fedeli M. (2022). Mai più lezioni noiose! Le trasformazioni della didattica e l’impatto delle metodologie attive in higher education in L. Fabbri, A. Romano, (Eds.) Transformative Teaching in Higher Education. Pensa Multimedia ISBN 978-88-6760-936-9

Peer reviewed Journal Articles

1. Fedeli, M; Guimares, P.; Hinzen, H.; Kando, R.; Nemeth, B.; Saam, J.; Tino, C. (2024). Higher education supporting the development of adult learning and education: Examples, experiences, expectations. FORM@RE DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/form-15996

2. Liotino, M., Fedeli, M., & Simsek, B. (2024). Il femminismo critico per re-immaginare una narrativa di genere nello sviluppo organizzativo. Educational Reflective Practices Open Access, (1). https://doi.org/10.3280/erp1-2024oa18280

3. Tino, C., Fedeli, M. (2024). The importance of soft skills for employability and the role of Higher Education: undergraduates’ perceptions. Giornale italiano della ricerca educativa, https://ojs.pensamultimedia.it/index.php/sird/article/view/7135/6685

4. Fedeli, M., & Olatunji, T. I. (2024). My Theory, my Tool, my Tribe: Unpacking Scholars’ Perspectives on the Evolution of Transformative Learning. Journal of Transformative Education, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/15413446241286481

5. Tino, C., Fedeli, M. (2024). Faculty come change agent tra cambiamenti e sfide: Il caso dell’università patavina. Excellence and Innovation in Learning and Teaching, Vol. 1, 24-39, Doi:10.3280/exioa1-2024oa18031, https://journals.francoangeli.it/index.php/exioa

Research Area

Research activities focus mainly on organizational development, higher education teaching, experiential training methodologies in formal, non-formal, informal contexts and human resource management.

The research areas in particular are:

1. Organizational development through training
2. Participatory teaching in higher education
3. The Learner Centered Teaching and Learning
4. Generative education. The values ​​of continuous education in organizational contexts.
5. Human resources management and training practices.
6. Personalized teaching; methods and instruments for participatory teaching
7. Didactics of dialogue with the world of work, university-business dialogue
8. Work-related teaching and learning
9. The alternation between school and work
10. Critical Reflection and Trasformative Learning and Teaching.
11. Transformative Learning
12. Gender Equity

These research areas are developed within national and international projects with scholars from Italian, European and American universities.

For more details see the attached CV

Thesis proposals

The master degree theses cover the research areas in which I am engaged at national and international level. In particular, experimental theses are agreed with students connected to educational organizational contexts and to companies with which I collaborate and within the projects I coordinate.
These are research on training, on the development of adult skills in different contexts, formal, informal and non-formal, on research trajectories aimed at exploring the professional development of people in communities and organizations.
Some of the themes developed in the last year:
Faculty development and teaching in higher education
Promote employability in formal contexts, didactics for dialogue with the world of work
The gender balance in the teaching of courses in the scientific area: engineering and mathematics
Reflective practices in training and management of tools
Organizational development and development of people in organizations
Professional development and training
Gender and Gender Equality in Teaching and Learning in STEM
Critical Approach in Human Resource Development
Trasformative learning and development of professional community