Ilaria Furfori is a Natural Sciences, Chemistry and Biology teacher in upper secondary school, and currently she is a Ph.D. student of the “Geoscience and Environment” PhD Programme at the Earth Science Department of the University of Pisa.
The doctoral research is in geoscience education and is mainly focused on:
- investigating the attention paid to the geosciences by Secondary School teachers;
- researching interdisciplinary teaching proposals among Earth Sciences, Biology and Chemistry in order to make the teaching of Earth Sciences more effective, considering that most of Natural Sciences teachers have a background other than a geology degree.
Her research interests include the presence of geoscience misconceptions in Secondary School students and the experimentation of teaching methodologies.
She has been working as a Secondary School teacher since 2014.
B. Sc. in Biology at University of Pisa, 2009. Thesis aims to provide the scientific basis for the design of a highly usable Bees Garden.
RESEARCH INTEREST
- Earth science education
- Teaching methodologies and practices
- Inquiry Based Science Education (IBSE)
Research project: Geoscience in upper secondary school: from a multidisciplinary to interdisciplinary approach.
Supervisors:
Professor Anna Gioncada (DST-UNIPI)
Professor Elena Bonaccorsi (DST-UNIPI)
Ilaria Furfori
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
Università di Pisa
Via Santa Maria 53
56126 Pisa
Italia