Prof. Claudio Baraldi

Claudio Baraldi is a professor of Sociology of cultural and communicative processes at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Studies on language and culture. His research concerns communication systems and forms of communication. In particular his research focuses on forms of intercultural and interlinguistic communication, and adult-children interactions in educational contexts. His most important interest is in the analysis of methods and techniques for dialogic facilitation of participation and language and cultural mediation. Claudio Baraldi has directed or co-ordinated more than 70 empirical research programmes, and he has extensively published in national and international journals.  At present, he is principal investigator of a consortium of 10 partners in a Horizon 2020 research program on migrant children’s integration in schools (Children Hybrid Integration: Learning Dialogue as a way of Upgrading Policies of Participation). He is also coordinating a national research programme (PRIN) in Italy, researching education and health of migrant-background children.