Cristiano Casalini
Endowed Chair, Jesuit Pedagogy and Educational History
Biography
Cristiano Casalini is a Professor and Endowed Chair in Jesuit Pedagogy and Educational History, and Academic Director for the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College. He teaches History of Jesuit Pedagogy, Social Justice in Jesuit Contexts, and Philosophy of Education. Casalini’s field of research is mainly early modern education and especially Jesuit education. He has worked on critical texts and commentaries of 16th and 17th century classics of education, especially in and around the Jesuit order. He also provided with Claude Pavur the first volume of a series devoted to the history of Jesuit pedagogy, entitled Jesuit Pedagogy. A Reader (1540–1616) (Boston: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2016). He also wrote a book on the Cursus Conimbricensis and the education at the Jesuit college of Coimbra (Rome: Anicia, 2012; and, in Portuguese, Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2015; in English, New York: Routledge, 2017), which was awarded with the Prémio Joaquím de Carvalho, 2016. Casalini serves as editor-in-chief of a series published by Brill on History of Early Modern Educational Thought.
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- EDUC7131 Social Justice in Jesuit Contexts
- EDUC7157 In the Footsteps of Leaders
- FORM1050 The Educational Conversation
- FORM4101 Readings and Research in Formative Education
- FORM7101 Readings and Research in Formative Education
- FORM7103 Readings and Research in Formative Education
- FORM7104 Readings and Research in Formative Education
- FORM8800 Colloquium in Formative Education
- JESU7131 Social Justice in Jesuit Contexts
- JESU7157 In the Footsteps of Leaders