Rosita Deluigi

Biography

Rosita Deluigi is an Associate Professor of General and Social Pedagogy at the University of Macerata (Unimc), Italy, where she teaches subjects such as General, Community, and Intercultural Education, Public Speaking, and Leadership Development. Her research is centered around fostering dialogue between cultures and generations through participatory methods, and she advocates for an arts-based and decolonial approach to addressing complex learning contexts.

Rosita is actively involved in European research projects that connect Italy with Kenya and Mozambique, with a focus on strengthening partnerships between universities and socio-educational entities to improve inclusion, education, and community empowerment. She currently serves as the principal investigator of the Unimc project "Afro-descendants, Identity Trajectories and Plural Languages: Presences, Positions and Self-Narratives from a Decolonial Perspective" and is leading the European Reform University Alliance Cluster project "Afro-descendant Communities: Multilingualism, Arts and Narratives towards an Intercultural and Transformative Citizenship."