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University of 'Tor Vergata' Rome, Italy
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Valentina D’Ascanio is Researcher in Education in the Department of Storia, Patrimonio Culturale, Formazione e Società, University of “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy. She is a member of SICESE (Sezione Italiana della Comparative Education Society in Europe), and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal I Problemi della Pedagogia and of the Series Studi sull’Educazione (UniversItalia, Roma). She is also a member of CIRSE (Centro Italiano per la Ricerca Storico-Educativa) and of SIPed (Società Italiana di Pedagogia). Her field of research regards the changes in higher education in the European and in the Italian context from the Twentieth century to today, adopting an historical-comparative perspective and giving particular attention to the concepts and works of some thinkers, like Max Weber, Thomas Mann, José Ortega y Gasset and Jean-François Lyotard. Her publications include: D’Ascanio, V (2014) Performativity and visibility: shapes, paths and meanings in the European higher education systems, in Vega Leoncio (Ed.), Empires, Post-coloniality and interculturality (pp. 151-167). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers; D’Ascanio, V (2017) ¿Como se idea el espacio educativo europeo? El discurso supranacional y la construcción del espacio europeo de educación superior, in «Journal of Supranational Policies of Education», pp. 81-106; D’Ascanio, V (2017) La polisemia della performance. L’istruzione superiore e la società̀ della conoscenza. Roma: Anicia; D’Ascanio, V (2020) Le Università del Novecento: legittimazione e governo. Roma: UniversItalia.