Arianna Taddei is associate professor of Didactic and Special Pedagogy (M-Ped/03) at the faculty of Education of the University of Macerata.

Here she is involved in didactics and research activities, teaching “Methodologies and Technologies for Education and Inclusive Didactics” in the bachelor’s degree course in Education and Training Sciences (L-19), “Clinical Pedagogy” and “Pedagogy of Disabilities” in the master’s degree course in Pedagogy (LM-85). Since 2022 she has been director of Specialization Courses for Support Teachers and she is member of the Board of Professors for Research National Doctorate “Teaching & Learning Sciences: Inclusion, technologies, educational research and assessment” (Cycle XXXIX).

The main topics of her research activities concern:

- the promotion of inclusive education in international cooperation contexts;

- the application of the rights of persons with disabilities in living contexts;

- the promotion of pathways for the empowerment of people with disabilities ;

- the study of gender-disability binomial according to the intersectional approach;

- the training of teachers specialized in support activities;

According to this perspective, at the faculty of Education of the University of Macerata, she is coordinator and scientific responsible for several international research projects: "Educ-IN: Inclusive and Quality Early Childhood Education in Mozambique", funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (call 318/2020); "Including Jerusalem: promoting Inclusion as Unifying process for primary school children in fragmented communities of East Jerusalem", funded by the European Union. In the internationalization perspective, she is the scientific responsible for the Bilateral Inter-institutional Agreement between the University of Macerata and the Universidad de Oviedo (Spain) and the Bilateral Inter-institutional Agreement between the University of Macerata and the Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain), both promoted within the Erasmus+ project. She is also the scientific responsible for the international academic collaboration agreement between the University of Macerata and the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA) in El Salvador. At the same time, she also partecipates as a member in the activities of a few research groups characterized by national or international collaborations. Among these: the research group within the international agreement between the University of Macerata and the Rochester Institute of Technology of the state of New York; the European project "Inclusive Communities at Work" of the Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism of the University of Macerata. Regarding projects in Italy, she is one of the WP coordinators of the project "INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM: Innovation, digitalization and sustainability for the diffused economy in Central Italy", for the University of Macerata financed with PNRR funds. She is also the scientific coordinator of the research unit within the PRIN won with the University of Bari entitled "Learning Analytics. Across Data Processing Ethics, Instructional Design and Academic Policy".

Since 2018, she has been a member of the TIN-TEC (Research Centre on Teaching and Learning, Inclusion, Disability and Educational Technologies) of the Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism of the University of Macerata.

For her scientific and research activity, Arianna Taddei has received the award of the Italian Society of Special Pedagogy in the session "Good practices: a workshop of inclusive experiences and practices" for the proposal presented entitled "Rimini open city. New challenges for reception: education in emergency".

Arianna Taddei has participated as a speaker in numerous national and international conferences and she is a member of the scientific committee of the series 'Traiettorie Inclusive' (FrancoAngeli); and "Embodiment, Education, Inclusion" (PensaMultimedia) as well as a member of several editorial boards. She is the author of numerous national and international publications and a member of the main pedagogical societies: SIPeS, SIPED, SIRD and SIREM.