Verónica studies how transformative pedagogies, curricula, and learning environments enable young people to grow as caring and thoughtful local and global citizens in a world of increasing complexity, mobility, and fragmentation. Through her research, she develops frameworks and tools that practitioners, researchers, and policymakers can use to advance educational innovations that respond to our complex times and construct more peaceful, just, and sustainable futures.
PZ Work
Verónica co-leads the PZ Doctoral Fellows program. She served on the executive committee and co-founded and chaired the Future of Learning Institute. Her research portfolio focuses on five interrelated lines of work:
- Global and Intercultural Competence Education: Nurturing local and global citizens
- Humane Migration: Re-imagining education for a world on the move
- Pedagogies of Voice and Dialogue: Re-thinking languages and dialogue in intercultural societies
- Learning, Healing, and Becoming for Collective Futures: New learning designs for people and planet
- Inter-Disciplines: Examining quality interdisciplinary education, research, and collaborations
Verónica is best known for her scholarship on global and intercultural competence education.
In an era of global interdependence and social fragmentation, her work examines global and intercultural competence as a vital educational goal. Her teams investigate what these competences are, why they matter, and how they can be cultivated and assessed in diverse classrooms and cultural settings. This agenda has informed innovation in public schools, international school networks, museums, and early-childhood programs worldwide, and helped shape the OECD-PISA Global Competence Framework and practice guide.
Beyond PZ
Verónica’s From Love to Action global competence framework investigates how “inquiry”, “perspective taking”, “love”, and “awe” enrich learning in, with, and for the world among young children in Japan, the United States, Greece, Colombia, and Poland.
With Daniel Wilson and the Re-Generating Education studio, she explores learning as collective and individual healing and becoming. A project centered on restoring relationships with self, others, and the planet, shaping a hopeful, futures-oriented educational paradigm.
With Paola Uccelli, her Languages for Relating project examines how language can serve as a gateway or gatekeeper to mutual integration in diverse multilingual schools.
Her Let’s Talk project, in collaboration with UNESCO, is developing a practical framework and toolkit for intercultural dialogue in regions experiencing high migratory flows.
Fun Facts
Verónica is the proud mother of Nico and Valentina. You can find her listening to good live jazz, enjoying art, and spending time with family and friends in Boston, D.C., Florianopolis, and Buenos Aires, where she is originally from.
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