Children after a natural disaster. Materials for educators and teachers

She is a psychologist and psychotherapist and co-ordinates the Social Planning Office of the VI Mountain Community of Velino to which belong the municipalities of Castel Sant’Angelo, Borgo Velino, Antrodoco, Micigliano, Posta, Borbona, Cittareale, Amatrice and Accumuli. From 2012 to 2017 she was Councillor for Social Policies for the municipality of Rieti, with responsibility for social and health policies, solidarity, integration, housing and social cohesion policies. She coordinated various editions of the “Rieti Città Amica dei bambini” Festival. She is technical director for the implementation of the “Velino for Children” Project (Sisma 2016). She is editor for the text: Individui, Comunità e Istituzioni in emergenza. L’intervento psico-socio-pedagogico e lavoro di rete nelle situazioni di catastrofe (with A. Vaccarelli, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2018).

He is Associate Professor of General and Social Pedagogy at the University of L’Aquila. He deals with emergency and intercultural pedagogy. He is scientific-pedagogical coordinator of the “Velino for Children” Project (Sisma 2016). His works include: Pedagogia dell’emergenza/Didattica nell’emergenza. I processi formativi nelle situazioni di criticità individuali e collettive (with M.V. Isidori, FrancoAngeli, Milan, 2013); Vaccarelli, A., Le prove della vita. Promuovere la resilienza nella relazione educativa (FrancoAngeli, Milan, 2016); Vaccarelli A., Emotions and representations of “the city” after the 2009 earthquake in L’Aquila: children’s education and social reconstruction in a post-catastrophe context, in “Ricerche di Pedagogia and Didattica – Journal of Theories and Research in Education”, 10, 3, 2015. He is editor for the text: Individui, Comunità e Istituzioni in emergenza. L’intervento psico-socio-pedagogico e lavoro di rete nelle situazioni di catastrofe (with S. Mariantoni, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2018).