Valentina Tassone

Valentina Tassone is an Assistant Professor at ELS, affiliated with WASS, specializing in Education for Sustainable Development. Her work bridges pedagogy, transdisciplinary competences, and socio-ecological stewardship, with a focus on Uganda and living labs as learning spaces.

Research Trends: Analysis of her recent publications reveals a focus on transformative pedagogies (e.g., pedagogy of the heart), sustainability-oriented education frameworks, and qualitative methodologies applied to agricultural and environmental learning contexts. Key subfields include human-soil relations, challenge-based learning, and affective/emotional dimensions in sustainability education.

Supervised Students: She co-promotes PhD research on topics such as sustainable food cultures, transdisciplinary competences, and responsible engineering education, working with candidates like Dorothy Misanya and Tessel Loonstra.

Projects: Active initiatives include curriculum development for sustainability, healthy food practices in schools, and transdisciplinary frameworks for sustainable development.