Dr. Juliana Pasqualini

Biography

Juliana Pasqualini is a Professor and Early Childhood Education leader at the Conceptual PlayLab at Monash University. Before relocating to Australia, she served as an Assistant Professor at São Paulo State University (UNESP) for fourteen years, where she supervised master’s and doctoral candidates in the Graduate Program in Education. She has extensive experience in professional learning projects for teachers and has led the design of early years curriculum guidelines for municipalities in Bauru and Presidente Prudente, located in the State of São Paulo. Throughout her career, she has conducted comprehensive studies on the epistemological foundations of cultural-historical psychology. Juliana was a Visiting Academic at the University of Bath in 2009 and at the State University of Campinas in 2018. Her international experience includes research activities at the University of Oxford and Cardiff University in the United Kingdom, Aarhus University in Denmark, and Universitas Negeri Jakarta in Indonesia. Her research primarily focuses on early childhood education and care from a cultural-historical perspective. She is currently investigating educational practices that support play complexity and the emergence of a sense of collectiveness in early years education, advancing the Danish emerging framework for sustainability education and the world-care pedagogy of the PlayLab's intervention model.

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