Onderwijsactiviteiten - dr. VC (Valentina) Tassone

PhD and Post-doc supervision

Currently, I supervise the following PhD and postdoctoral projects:

• Integrating Ethics in Climate Change Education (PhD candidate Thijs Loonstra).
• Transformative learning for sustainability: living labs as powerful learning spaces (PhD candidate Marlies van der Wee)
• Towards Life affirming Higher Education in urgent times (PhD candidate Saskia Weijzen)
• The role of human agency in transdisciplinary learning for sustainable development (PhD candidate Liu Weiwei)
• Creating healthy and sustainable food cultures in secondary schools using the Whole School Approach combined with Citizen Science (PhD candidate Maria Neocleous Maliotou)
• Education for awareness: living labs for soil health and sustainability (Post-doc Divya Pandey)

Completed PhD supervisions

• Towards a Transformative Learning Ecology for fostering Socio-ecological Stewardship among small holder farmers and children in Uganda, April 2025 (Dr. Doreen Misanya)
• The transgressive gardener: Cultivating learning-based transformations towards regenerative futures, December 2019 (Dr. Thomas Macintyre)

Education

During my classes, I engage with reflexive, experiential, and arts-based teaching methods. An example of personal and artistic initiatives taken by students within my course ‘Empowerment for Sustainability’ can be found here . For the coordination of this course, I received for three times a Wageningen University Excellent Education Award.

Furthermore, I facilitate (transdisciplinary) processes of participation in between academia and society. An example of awarded students’ projects, within the course ‘Academic Consultancy Training’ connecting academia-society which I coordinate, can be found here.