Full Professor of Social Pedagogy at the Human Sciences Department at LUMSA University of Rome, he is co-director of the magazine "Pedagogia e vita". He is a trainer in national and international AMI courses of the Perugia Montessori Training Center “M. A. Paolini”. Among his Montessorian publications: Infanzia e società in Maria Montessori. Il bambino padre dell’uomo (2007), La Grande Guerra tra educazione infantile e “pedagogia nera” (2017), Maria Montessori e le neuroscienze (with L. Fogassi) (2019).