Nicola PAPARELLA

Biography

Nicola PAPARELLA
Is the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities in the Pegasus Open University of Naples where also teaches General Didactic and Special Education.
He founded and now coordinates the management team of the PhD on "Law, education and development". In past years he founded and directed, at the University of Salento, the PhD course in "Pedagogy of the development"
Nicola Paparella worked in the University of Lecce (now University of Salento - Lecce, Italy) since 1971 as assistant and associated professor; full Professor since 1991 in Experimental Pedagogy, in 1992 he established the Department of Education, Psychology and Didactics and directed it until 1997 and also from 2003 to 2010. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Education from 1997 to 2003
In the same University, he teached Experimental Pedagogy and also General Pedagogy and Didactics. During his career he also established the first Italian undergraduate degree course in the Pedagogy of Childhood (University of Lecce and University of Aosta). He was the president of the Academic Committee in Education of the University of Aosta.
Nicola Paparella is a founding member of SIRD( Società Italiana di Ricerca Didattica ) and of SIREM (Società Italiana di Ricerca per l’Educazione Mediale) and a ordinary member of SIPED (Società Italiana di Pedagogia) too.
He was also director of the Biennal Postgraduate Courses for aid teachers and collaborated on experimental studies about the Italian school system; he designed the Ulpia Project for the study and the delivery of distance learning services and, recently, he coordinated a research unit within a PRIN (Project of National Relevant Interest) focused on the definition of a pedagogic criteriology for e-learning in university courses. Furthermore he cooperated in the international research project Socrates/Erasmus-Mod EuPa (Education Européene en Administration Publique) for the long life learnig and on line training of public and government functionary.
Prof. Paparella was national coordinator of other PRIN projects and, as Rector’s delegate, he took care of career counselling strategies and managed a FSE financed Project for Vocational Guidance and Tutoring Services at the University of Lecce.
He has an extensive research background: his own research is primarily concerned on educational issues of children education, problems of learning, educational technology. In his latter writings he emphasizes the importance of the e-learning theory and techniques in the educational planning and curricular management.
He collaborates with several scientific journals in the field of educational research; he is in the editorial board of several Italian publishers and is the author of more than 280 publications: books, essays and articles (see: http://www.studiopaparella.it/nicola/index.php/pubblicazioni/).