Vincenza FERRARA

Biography

Highly Qualified Expert - Professor M-Ped/03- Nursing degree - Pharmacy and Medicine Faculty - Sapienza University of Rome. Former Director of Art and Medical Humanities Lab at the Pharmacy and Medicine Faculty and has collaborated with the degree course in Medicine "C" of the Sapienza University of Rome. She collaborates as lecture at medicine course of L'Aquila University and at PCTO courses at Verona University. She as a scientific coorditator of activities and courses of VTSItalia association. Her research concerns the application of technologies and new methods for the enhancement of cultural heritage, especially in learning study field. Since 2014, in the field of research on Art and Learning, he has investigated issues related to the "New Museology" and pedagogy for the Re-thinking the paths and exhibit in the Museum related to pay attention to all publics. The last lines of research concern the relationship between art and medicine and especially the Visual Thinking Strategies practice as a tool for learning and social inclusion in schools and health sector. (Http://vtsitalia.it). She was coordinator of the Cultural Heritage for Science Learning project funded by the Erasmus Program KA2 2015-2017 and other national programs for the cultural heritage dissemination. She is scientific partner of many museums in Italy for the experimentation of new approaches to cultural heritage in order to put in the center of the learning process the visitor and the student. She carries out seminar and teaching activities in the field of Clinical Methodology and the Medical Humanities in Degree Courses in Medicine and Surgery, Nursing Sciences and specific training in General Medicine and in degree courses in Education Sciences. The results of the research activities developed were presented at national and international conferences and are the subject of publications. She was director of the e-learning Laboratory, museum education and school learning at the Digilab - Sapienza Research Center until July 2017.