Chrysi Rapanta (Ph.D. Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland, 2011) works as a post-doctoral researcher at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Before that, she was Assistant Professor of Communication at Zayed University, United Arab Emirates. Her current research focuses in the field of Philosophy of Education, especially in the study of implementation of philosophical tools, such as theory of argumentation, to educational contexts, such as teacher-students’ interactions. Her background is highly interdisciplinary, as shown by her versatile publications on topics ranging from business communications to the use of technologies, and from argumentative competence analysis to teacher training and education. She has published in top journals in the field of Education, such as the Review of Educational Research, the Journal of Philosophy of Education, and the British Journal of Educational Technologies.
Chrysi will assist in all tasks, especially in the ones related to the Cultural Literacy Learning Programme (WP3) and the analysis of dialogue and argumentation (WP5).
