Valeria Damiani
Valeria Damiani has a PhD in Education and is an Associate Professor at LUMSA University (Rome). She was a member of the Joint Management Committee for the second and third cycles of the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) 2016 and 2022.
She is currently part of the working group on quality EDC within the European Space for Citizenship Education (ESCE) promoted by the Council of Europe.
Democracy is not learned solely through textbooks or formal instruction; it is lived, practiced, and experienced through everyday interactions and shared decision-making. Next to the larger community, family, friends, and peers, teachers play a central role in this process. As spaces where young people encounter difference, classrooms and schools offer...