Author
Mabel Giraldo
PhD in Human Formation, is actually Research Fellow at Department of Human and Social Science of University of Bergamo (Italy). Her research interests, resulted in the PhD thesis titled "Theatre praxis. From an aesthetic reflection to a pedagogical pathway", focus on the analysis of the intersections between theatre and education, with a particular attention to the contemporary debate on performance practices (studying authors like Richard Schechner and "movements" as Performance Studies) and the main theories about special education and autism (on which she has conducted several studies, also in the international context, such as the recent survey of the situation of autism in South Africa).