Maria ANNARUMMA | Curriculum

Maria Annarumma is Associate Professor in Didactics and Special Pedagogy (scientific-disciplinary sector Mped_03) Department of Humanities, Philosophy and Education – DISUFF University of Salerno (Italy). She has achieved her PhD in Educational Research Methodology at the Faculty of Education Sciences of the University of Salerno defending the thesis “Technologies, metacognition and learning”. She has benefited from a research grant for the LEAD international project Technology-enhanced learning and problem-solving discussions: Networked learning environments in the classroom.

Winner of the 2021 Italian Pedagogy Prize awarded by SIPED for the monographic volume entitled Epistemology of play.
Director of the series "Learning Technologies, Didactic Game Media Education". Lecce: Pensa Editore from 01-09-2017 to today

Member of the International Editorial Board of the class 11/D2 scientific journal “Problem of Psychology in the 21st century” ISBN 2019-8587 Print, ISSN 2538-7197 Online
from 11-11-2017 to today

Member of the scientific committee of the series "Inclusive methodologies and didactic corporality". Avellino: Il papavero Editions, from 01-02-2019 to today

Member of prestigious scientific societies: SIREM (Italian Society of Media Research) SIPED (Italian Society of Pedagogy) SIRD (Italian Society for Educational Research) from 01-01-2012 to today

Her research interests revolve around the themes of technology, play and game in childhood.

Scientific director of the following FARB research projects (ex 60%)
• Experimentation of the Feuerstein method and its effects on teaching practice 2008;
• Cartoons between narratives and knowledge 2009
• Social learning and cognitive processes 2011
• Connectionist didactics, social media and creativity 2012
• Social Oriented Learning Management System 2013
• The playful teaching of values 2014
• Video game between media literacy and digital competence 2015
• The children's play universe from toys to video games: gender differences and educational perspectives 2016
• Touch screens, digitods and media education 2017
Participated as a component of FARB research projects (ex 60%)
• The teaching of geometry in kindergarten 2008;
• Design of materials that can be delivered via mobile learning 2009;
• Evaluation of competence in geometry in lower secondary school 2009;
• YouCampus - learning becomes a social process 2011
• Social oriented LMS project: Livecampus 2012
• Livecampus from the learning management system to the personal learning environment 2013
• Edufarm - the farm as an educational environment 2015
• Design and development of an educational software to encourage the development of the mentalization process in autistic subjects 2016
• Educational software in the learning process 2016
• Augmented reality and learning. Research and design of educational software for mobile devices 2017

Responsibility for Scientific Studies and Research entrusted by qualified institutions

• Scientific direction of the research entitled Didactics of nutrition. Perspectives and strategies for orienting towards psychophysical well-being, at the International Center for Psychology and Strategic Psychotherapy MIUR DECREE OF 02/08/2012, PUBLISHED IN G.U. OF 08/21/2012 No. 194. from 09/30/2014 to 06/30/2015

• Scientific direction of the research project entitled Yoga towards an integrated dimension of teaching: mind, body, education, at the International Center for Psychology and Strategic Psychotherapy MIUR DECREE OF 02/08/2012, PUBLISHED IN G.U. OF 08/21/2012 No. 194. from 09/30/2016 to 06/30/2017

• Scientific direction of the research project entitled Misophonia: from the theoretical approach to the psycho-pedagogical and didactic implications, at the International Center for Psychology and Strategic Psychotherapy MIUR DECREE OF 02/08/2012, PUBLISHED IN G.U. OF 21/08/2012 N. 194. from 22-03-2021 and currently in progress.

Some of her recent publications include:

Annarumma M., Barra V. (2023). Narrating beings between the visible and the invisible: metaverse and word. In Journal of inclusive methodology and technology in learning and teaching. Vol. 3. Pag.1-6 ISSN:2785-5104.

Annarumma M., Rosenthal, Zachary M. Sessa F. (2022). Misophonia: symptoms, comorbidities and perspectives of intervention. From theory approach to integrated clinical practice research. In Problems of psychology in the 21st century. Vol. 16. Pag.36-48 ISSN:2538-7197.

Annarumma M., Vitale L., (2022). Mobile devices as playful mediators for inclusive teaching: touchscreen, game and neurodiversity. In Journal of Inclusive Methodology and Technology in Learning and Teaching.

Annarumma M. (2020), Beyond covid-19: nature, technology and human identity, Editoriale. In Problems of psychology in the 21st century. Vol. 14, pag.4-6.

Annarumma, Vitale, Tedesco, Sessa, (2020) The reorganization of the family system at the time of covid-19: educational resilience and assistive technologies. In Problems of psychology in the 21st century. Vol. 14, pag.18-26.

Annarumma M., (2019). Epistemologia del gioco. Teorie, definizioni e metodi per un'educazione emozionale. p. 1-136, Lecce: Pensa editore, ISBN: 978-88-6152-267-1