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Sandra Della Porta has a multidisciplinary background in Psychology and Education, specializing in early childhood education. She has extensive experience working with children from infancy to school-age and has developed a research program focused on studying children’s learning in both formal and informal interactions in unstructured contexts such as play, conflict, and routine exchanges. Her central research focus lies in the study of social power, examining how children understand and utilize everyday experiences in asserting their agency. Della Porta investigates concepts of equity and fairness, along with the role of social power in the learning process, providing insights into children’s social and cultural knowledge. Her work emphasizes the dynamics of power relations in early childhood education and the importance of informal learning contexts, including family exchanges and teacher-child interactions, in the teaching and learning process.
This entry applies to the general Graduate Studies standard for departments such as English Language and Literature, History, Philosophy, and Sociology.