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Silvia Guetta has a PhD in Pedagogy and is Associate Professor at the University of Florence, where she currently holds courses in Pedagogy for Conflict Management and Social Pedagogy and Peace Education. She is the only Italian researcher who has carried out studies concerning the History of Jewish Education in Italy from the seventeenth century. She has published numerous articles, both in English and in Hebrew, that analyze the various dimensions of Jewish education. She has also conducted research and published articles in the field of General Pedagogy, with a specific focus on the Feuerstein method and how it is used to improve the quality of learning in intercultural and interreligious contexts. In addition, she is a member of the Transdisciplinary UNESCO Chair for Human Development and Culture of Peace and of the INEE international network (Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies). Furthermore, she is a member of the IHRA network (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) and has recently contributed to the writing of national guidelines for the didactics of Shoah education in Italy published by Italy’s Ministry of Education. She is coordinator of the memorandum signed between the University of Florence and Yad Vashem. Since 2015 she has overseen exchange proposals on Holocaust Education with Israeli students and researchers and has hosted several international and local training courses for teaching on Holocaust Education. The last training course proposed is “Participatory Action Research and Best Teaching Practices for Interdisciplinary Knowledge of the Holocaust”.