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Paolo Vittoria (Naples, 1976) is an educator, professor, writer. He teaches Social Pedagogy and Adult Education at the Federico II University of Naples. Previously he was professor on philosophy of education at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro where he lived from 2008 to 2017.

He is distinguished scholar on Paulo Freire. His book “Narrando Paulo Freire. Per una pedagogia del dialogo” (Sassari, 2008) has been translated in Romanian (Bucarest, 2009), Portuguese (Rio de Janeiro, 2011), Spanish (Xativa, 2014), English (London, 2015), Turkish (Istanbul, 2017), Greek (Athens, 2018). Dr. Nita Freire, eminent educational scholar and widow of Paulo Freire remarked “the political and critical pedagogy that Paolo Vittoria develops should be read by all those interested in a critical and engaged reading about exclusion and marginalization because we find, un the field of education, responses to discrimination and the violence of neocolonialism and neoliberalism”.

Vittoria seeks to analyze the possibilities for the resistance against neoliberal and post-colonial model of education. His thought engages in such an analysis by attempting to understand how political-economic model are played out in education field. He has been an important contributor to a variety of educational alternatives including Latin American popular education, international critical pedagogy, pedagogy and theatre of the oppressed, social movements, communitarian education, dialogue-based education.

Vittoria has held visiting professorial appointments at multiple universities such as Anglia Ruskin University (UK), Lucien Blaga Universitatea (Romania), Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Chile, Universidad de La Habana (Cuba), Birmingham City University (UK). He is co-founder and co-director of International Journal Educazione Aperta. He also serves on the editorial advisory boards of several international peer reviewed journals including the Peer Review International Journal The Educational Review, USA. Hill Publisher. New York and the International Journal JCEPS: the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies – UK. London.