Luca Tateo

Professor - Institutt for spesialpedagogikk

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Teaching responsibilities

Coordinator of International Master in Special Needs Education SNE
SNE4231 – Research Methodology
SNE4130 - Historical and Sociocultural Perspectives on Learning and Development
SNE4200 – Education for Learners with Special Needs
SPED4010 – Philosophy of Science, Research Method, and Statistics
SPED3002 – Bacheloroppgave
SPED4093 – Master's Degree Thesis - Specialisation in behavioural learning disorder
SPED1200 – Spesialpedagogisk forskningsmetode og forskningsbasert praksis

Research interests

cultural and ecological approaches in social psychology
cultural psychology of education
art-based methods, affective logic and the aesthetic dimension of psychic life
study of imagination as higher psychological process
cultural mediation of grief
decolonizing approaches and epistemic injustice in psychology and education
epistemology and history of psychological science

Luca Tateo is habilitated as Full professor in Social and Organizational Psychology (sector 11/E3) and as Associate Professor in Psychology of Development and Education (sector 11/E2) by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research (MIUR).

Research experience

Member of the research team of the project The Politics of Disability Identity, funded by the Research Council of Norway (SAMKUL).
Member of the research team of the CNPq funded project “Sob o signo da pobreza: dinâmicas psicossociais e educacionais de pessoas de camadas populares a partir da perspectiva da psicologia semiótico- cultural [Under the sign of poverty: psychosocial and educational dynamics of people in economically disadvantaged social groups in the perspective of cultural semiotic psychology]”, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.
Member of the Research Centre “The Culture of Grief”, funded by Obel Familie Fonden at Aalborg University, with the sub-project “Grief and affective logic”.
Coordinator of Carlsberg Foundation research grant 2013, project “International workshop on Giambattista Vico and imagination in psychology”
Coordinator of “Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship 2013”, project “Epistemology in psychological science, the heritage of Giambattista Vico and the cultural psychology”
Team coordinator in the project “LEAD Technology enhanced learning and problem solving discussions: Network learning environments in the classroom” FP7.
Research and trainer in the project Re-N.E.T. “Revitalizing networks and new emphasis in transfer: preventing and facing early school leaving by sharing solutions and tools”
Researcher in the project “ELeGi - European Learning GRID Infrastructure”), FP6, Consortium on Methods and Systems for Learning and Knowledge”.
Researcher in the project “Enhancing SCience Appeal in Learning through Argumentative inTEraction (ESCALATE)”.

International partnerships

Former associate professor in Epistemology and History of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University.
Former member of the Centre for Cultural Psychology, directed by Jaan Valsiner at Aalborg University.
Former honorary Associate Professor at School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, Sydney University, Australia.
Former visiting professor at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.
Member of the Kitchen Seminar network.
Co-coordinator of the network of excellence “IBEF - Ideas for the Basic Education of the Future".

Editorial work

Co-editor in chief of the Journal “Human Arenas. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Psychology, Culture, and Meaning”, Springer.
Editor in Chief of the book series “Innovations in Qualitative Research”, Information Age Publishing, USA.
Associate editor of the journal SN Social Sciences, Springer
Associate editor of the journal Trends in Psychology, Springer
Associate editor of the journal Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas).
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal journal Revista Iberoamericana de Criatividade e Inovação (RECRIAI)Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Culture & Psychology.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal QWERTY. Open and Interdisciplinary Journal of Technology, Culture and Education.

Full Curriculum Vitae and list of publications available here.

Dario, Nadia & Tateo, Luca (2022). Relegated at the Margin: Visible Thinking, Visual Marginalia in Schooling. In Fossa, Pablo (Eds.), Inner Speech, Culture & Education. Springer. ISSN 978-3-031-14212-3. p. 51–70. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-14212-3_4.
CUDINA, JEAN NIKOLA; OSSA, JULIO CÉSAR; MILLÁN, JUAN DAVID; LÓPEZ-LÓPEZ, WILSON & Tateo, Luca (2022). Historical Development of Political-Critical Thinking in Colombian Psychology. Revista Colombiana de Psicología. ISSN 0121-5469. 32(1). doi: 10.15446/rcp.v32n1.98961.
Ruse, Jesse N.; Rhodes, Paul; Tateo, Luca & De Luca Picione, Raffaele (2022). Remaking time: Cultural semiotic transformations of temporality during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. Integrative Psychological and Behavioural Science. ISSN 1932-4502. doi: 10.1007/s12124-022-09711-6. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
This paper investigates one aspect of meaning making that occurs in the wake of systemic change. It addresses the question of how time is re-configured by socio-material changes resultant from the COVID-19 pandemic. Employing a semiotic perspective, we aim to describe a process of disruption and distress, which leads to a recognition of the oddness of ‘covid-time.’ This is characterised by distressing ‘suspended waiting’, a despairing frozen temporality. After this, this odd covid-time is semiotically assimilated into the old and familiar. Distressing ‘suspended time’ is transformed into ‘productive time’, ‘normal time’, and ‘transformational time’ as an attempt to regulate affect. By highlighting this semiotic shift, the theory of the Cultural Psychology of Semiotic Dynamics (Valsiner, 2014) is used to highlight how meaning is constructed using cultural resources.
Pascarella, Federica; Vicigrado, Antonietta; Tateo, Luca & Marsico, Giuseppina (2022). La drammatizzazione come spazio dialogico e liminale: riflessioni teoriche per il superamento tensionale e lo sviluppo socio-culturale dell’alunno nel contesto scolastico. Ricerche di Psicologia. ISSN 0391-6081. 45. doi: 10.3280/rip2022oa13952. Full text in Research Archive
César, Jamile & Tateo, Luca (2022). The sign of dialogue between psychoanalysis and cultural psychology. International Journal of Psychoanalysis and Education: Subject. ISSN 2035-4630. 2(1), p. 1–14. doi: 10.32111/SAS.2022.2.1.1. Full text in Research Archive
Tateo, Luca; Marsico, Giuseppina; Dazzani, Virginia & He, Min (2022). University without Borders. Integrative Psychological and Behavioural Science. ISSN 1932-4502. doi: 10.1007/s12124-022-09714-3. Full text in Research Archive
Tateo, Luca & Marsico, Giuseppina (2022). Sensing the city. Affective semiosis and urban border- zones. In petrilli, susan & Meng, Ji (Ed.), Intersemiotic Perspectives on Emotions Translating across Signs, Bodies and Values. Routledge. ISSN 9781003056652. p. 196–209. doi: 10.4324/9781003056652-14.
Tateo, Luca; Marsico, Giuseppina & Valsiner, Jaan (2022). The Pandemic Atmos-Fear. International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation. ISSN 2157-3883. 11(2), p. 125–133. doi: 10.1027/2157-3891/a000041. Show summary
Psychology has been challenged by its own terminological limitations, in which phenomena of large-scale, field-like kind force us to innovate with our theoretical tools. Phenomena with global impacts – epidemics, pandemics, famines, and the like – remain on the periphery of psychology’s theoretical efforts. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 is no different. Like previous pandemics, it reveals the difficulty of dealing with phenomena on a global scale and understanding the inherent organization of the cloud-like phenomena. Psychological research has mainly focused on individual traumatic experiences, impacts, and consequences. Less attention has been paid to how people in different societies make meaning of these changes in everyday life. Psychologically, people want to control the pandemic, while in reality we simply escape from it. All of the measures instituted in response to it are escape-oriented, not glorious accounts of winning a war on the invisible enemy. Theoretically, we learn from the current experience the relevance of how humans escalate and circumvent the proliferation of the panic of fear through building and demolishing borders in mind and society. We all are living in a sort of atmos-fear, a culturally cultivated state of affective limbo that is easy to trigger and difficult to modulate. How do human beings deal with this core issue of feeling safe/unsafe, and how does it affect individual and collective conduct? This paper attempts to demonstrate how the COVID-19 example can theoretically illuminate new perspectives of international psychology that will become increasingly more crucial in a future where global events are likely to recur.
Tateo, Luca; Marsico, Giuseppina & Valsiner, Jaan (2022). Cultural Psychology, International Handbook of Psychology Learning and Teaching. Springer. ISSN 978-3-030-26248-8. doi: https%3A/doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26248-8_28-1.
Tateo, Luca (2022). The voice of hungry minds: the relevance of Danilo Dolci for the Cultural Psychology of Education. Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas). ISSN 0103-166X. 39. doi: 10.1590/1982-0275202239e200182. Full text in Research Archive
Xu, Shuangshuang; Wang, Jing & Tateo, Luca (2021). Dramatizing Living-in-the-World: Affective Generalization in Drama-in-Education Workshop. Integrative Psychological and Behavioural Science. ISSN 1932-4502. doi: 10.1007/s12124-021-09625-9. Full text in Research Archive
De Luca Picione, Raffaele; Martini, Elvira; Cicchella, Sara; Forte, Salvatore; Carranante, Maria & Tateo, Luca [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2021). The impact of Covid-19 pandemic: Psycho-social perception of the crisis and sense-making processes. Community Psychology in Global Perspective. ISSN 2421-2113. 7(2). doi: 10.1285/i24212113v7i2p103. Full text in Research Archive
Tateo, Luca & Marsico, Giuseppina (2021). Das anthropophagische Manifest für eine wahrhaft globale Psychologie. psychosozial. ISSN 0171-3434. 165, p. 49–63.
Robles-Piñeros, Jairo & Tateo, Luca (2021). Isn’t all about trash... Children’s conceptions about ecology and their implications for biology education in Colombia. Journal of Biological Education. ISSN 0021-9266. doi: 10.1080/00219266.2021.1941189. Full text in Research Archive
de Abreu, Marcio; Tateo, Luca & Marsico, Giuseppina (2021). The affective logic of race: A cultural psychological analysis of racial signifying practices. Culture & Psychology. ISSN 1354-067X. doi: 10.1177/1354067X211027285. Full text in Research Archive
Kaipper Dias, Cristiana; Leite da Rocha, Leonardo Rafael; Tateo, Luca & Marsico, Giuseppina (2021). “Passing” and its effects on Brazilian transgender people's sense of belonging to society: A theoretical study. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. ISSN 1052-9284. doi: 10.1002/casp.2535. Full text in Research Archive
Tateo, Luca & Marsico, Giuseppina (2021). Signs as borders and borders as signs . Theory & psychology. ISSN 0959-3543. doi: 10.1177/0959354320964865. Full text in Research Archive
Assis Pinheiro, Marina; Ferreira da Silva, Jandson & Tateo, Luca (2021). The Aesthetic Experience as a Central Pathway in Understanding Memory and Imagination – The Case of Quilombo Barro Branco. In Lyra, Maria C.D.P.; Wagoner, Brady & Barreiro, Alicia (Ed.), Imagining the Past, Constructing the Future. Springer Nature. ISSN 978-3-030-64174-0. p. 89–106. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-64175-7_6.
Pascarella, Federica; Vicigrado, Antonietta; Tateo, Luca & Marsico, Giuseppina (2021). Spontaneous Dramatization as Dialogical Space in the School Context. Human Arenas. ISSN 2522-5790. doi: 10.1007/s42087-021-00184-4. Full text in Research Archive
Tateo, Luca; Nugin, Raili; Jones, Alasdair; Marsico, Giuseppina & Palang, Hannes (2021). Cities of Senses: Visible and Invisible Borders in Public Spaces. In Kullasepp, Katrin & Marsico, Giuseppina (Ed.), Identity at the Borders and Between the Borders. Springer Nature. ISSN 978-3-030-62266-4. p. 7–22. doi: https%3A/doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62267-1_2.
Xu, Shuangshuang & Tateo, Luca (2020). Drama-in-Education for Understanding: an Investigation from the Perspective of Cultural Psychology of Semiotic Mediation. Human Arenas. ISSN 2522-5790. doi: 10.1007/s42087-020-00157-z. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Drama in education (DiE) is a lively and productive area of art entering into education. This article tries to establish dialogues between DiE and psychology by revisiting the phenomenological world opened by DiE from the theoretical lens of cultural psychology of semiotic mediation. First, we propose to distinguish three main approaches in DiE towards production of new understandings and conceptualize them into different models of meaning making processes from the lens of cultural psychology. Based on the three approaches, we will theorize participants’ experience in DiE into three layers: the layer of everyday, dramatic, and existential. Each layer of experience contains unique potential to produce signs from different generalization process, and the three approaches can be mapped out on different interacting zones between layers. To illuminate the theoretical discussion, the case study of a DiE workshop “The green child” is used to investigate the characteristics of its artistic form and structure, in launching participants into travelling among the three layers of experiences and in facilitating different levels of affective generalization for aesthetic experience to emerge.
Tateo, Luca (2020). The School as Semiotic Intercultural Arena. In Xu, Shuangshuang & Marsico, Giuseppina (Ed.), Social Ecology of a Chinese Kindergarten Where culture grows. Springer Nature. ISSN 978-3-030-59734-4. p. 117–128. doi: https%3A/doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59735-1_10.
Dario, Nadia & Tateo, Luca (2020). The positive side: an inquiry into mind-wanderingùin teaching- learning situations. . Formazione & Insegnamento. ISSN 1973-4778. XVIII(3), p. 255–276. doi: 10.7346/-fei-XVIII-03-20_07. Show summary
The article addresses an overlooked topic in the field of educational sciences: teachers’ experience about mind-wandering, and presents a study that analyzes the dynamics of the psychic phenomenon by a combination of a new methodology and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). First, we present the phenomenon of mind-wandering as a relevant object of study, then we suggest that it can play a positive role in teaching-learning activities. We aim to provide a richer picture of the process that is commonly understood as a shift in attention. Through the discussion based on real-life field study on seven primary and secondary Italian school teachers, we show how mind-wandering is a relevant psychological phenomenon, a space of exploration and reflection where teachers rethink completely their role with regard to the students, and reconsider their mental process engaged in planning their own work. Thanks to the proposed methodology, one can gain a deeper access to teachers’ subjectivity, both as individuals absorbed in learning situations but also in their experiences, beliefs, images and social representations of mind-wandering that are connected to a specific cultural context, fieldwork, and activities of meaning construction.
Tateo, Luca & Dario, Nadia (2020). Listen to us, grown-ups! A Research on Children’s Diaries during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Formazione & Insegnamento. ISSN 1973-4778. XVIII(3), p. 89–100. doi: 10.7346/-fei-XVIII-03-20_07. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
The article presents the preliminary analysis of Italian children’s diaries during the COVID-19 lockdown. The outbreak of the disease has posed great challenges to people’s daily lives and often children’s perspectives have been overlooked. We conducted a diary study with 28 pre-adolescents in the North–East of Italy to grasp their first-person perspective on this extraordinary event. We considered a number of relevant examples that are representative of their ideas, opinions and thoughts on the pandemic phases, family life, and education. Diaries are used as ecocultural qualitative methods able to illustrate the dynamics of children’s experiences and their sense-making, and to provide useful insights for educators.
Tateo, Luca (2020). Face masks as layers of meaning in times of COVID-19. Culture & Psychology. ISSN 1354-067X. 27(1), p. 131–151. doi: 10.1177/1354067X20957549. Full text in Research Archive
Tateo, Luca (2020). The Golem of Psychology and the Ecosystemic Epistemology. Integrative Psychological and Behavioural Science. ISSN 1932-4502. 54(2), p. 667–676. doi: 10.1007/s12124-020-09532-5. Full text in Research Archive
Dario, Nadia & Tateo, Luca (2020). A New Methodology for the Study of Mind-Wandering Process. Human Arenas. ISSN 2522-5790. 3(2), p. 172–189. doi: 10.1007/s42087-019-00075-9. Full text in Research Archive
Marsico, Giuseppina; Tateo, Luca; Cerqueira Gomez, Ramon & Dazzani, Virginia (2019). Educational processes and dialogical construction of Self. In Mercer, Neil; Wegerif, Rupert & Major, Louis (Ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of Research on Dialogic Education. Routledge. ISSN 9780429441677. p. 50–63. doi: 10.4324/9780429441677-6.
Tateo, Luca (2019). The journey of learning. Mind, Culture, and Activity. ISSN 1074-9039. 26(4), p. 371–382. doi: 10.1080/10749039.2019.1686028.
Tateo, Luca (2019). Caravaggio’s The Seven Works of Mercy and the Art of Generalization. In Højholt, Charlotte & Schraube, Ernst (Ed.), Subjectivity and Knowledge. Springer. ISSN 978-3-030-29977-4. p. 141–156. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-29977-4_8.

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Dario, Nadia & Tateo, Luca (2022). New Perspectives on Mind-Wandering. Springer. ISBN 978-3031069543. 314 p.
Impedovo, Maria Antonietta & Tateo, Luca (2021). Identity and Teacher Professional Development. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-030-71366-9. 101 p.
Joranger, Line; Valerio, Tatiana; Bastos, Ana Clara & Tateo, Luca (2020). From Dream to Action: Imagination and (Im)Possible Futures. Information Age Publishing. ISBN 3-030-58190-X. 298 p.
Valerio, Tatiana; Bastos, Ana Clara & Tateo, Luca (2020). From Dream to Action Imagination and (Im)Possible Futures. Information Age Publishing. ISBN 978-1-64802-279-1. 296 p.
Tateo, Luca (2020). A Theory of Imagining, Knowing, and Understanding. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-030-38024-3.
Marsico, Giuseppina & Tateo, Luca (2019). Ordinary Things and Their Extraordinary Meanings. Information Age Publishing. ISBN 978-1641136822.
Brown, Sheldon & Tateo, Luca (2019). The Method of Imagination. Information Age Publishing. ISBN 9781641134712. 2018(2). 284 p.
Tateo, Luca (2018). An Old Melody in a New Song. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-92338-3. 220 p.
Tateo, Luca (2017). Giambattista Vico and the New Psychological Science. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 9781412864244. 242 p.

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Tateo, Luca & Marsico, Giuseppina (2022). Symposium: Theory of Psychology Facing Environmental Challenges . Show summary
To what extent the theory of psychology is equipped to understand the global perspective of environmental challenges? Global warming, resources over-consumption and the recurrent climatic, sanitary and migratory crises have made clear that the future challenges for humankind will be systemic and interconnected. An individualistic, trauma-based, and single-minded psychology does not seem ready to face the future challenges. In our understanding, psychology shall built a theoretical system based on an ecosystemic perspective, considering the local configurations of unique ecosystems where biodiversity, anthropodiversity and psychodiversity thrive. In this direction, ecopsychology and decolonizing perspective have shown how the way we relate to the rest of the planetary ecosystem is also a matter of social justice, which involves the rights of all the human and non-human communities. The current theory in psychology has few conceptual tools to locate human mind within the global ecosystem. Some approaches have been developed, which can serve as starting points for the reterritorialization of psychology. Eco-psychology, developed in the 1980’s, and currently experiencing a resurgence; deep ecology and Gaianism, both built on the work of Bateson and Margolis; the feminist and ecologist post-humanities elaborations; the relativistic and indigenous epistemologies; all are sensitive interlocutors and fertile ground for psychology. In this session, we aim at provoking a collective effort to define the most promising theoretical notions that can be developed into an ecosystemic theory of psychology. This should also represent the stem of an ecosystemic international psychology network, which urges to develop new imaginaries and practices, and able to move beyond the dichotomy between anthropocentrism and environmentalism.
Dario, Nadia; Lund, Kristine & Tateo, Luca (2022). Mapping Visual Marginalia in Educational Contexts: A Model for New Types of Self-Regulation of Learning.
Tateo, Luca & Marsico, Giuseppina (2022). Commitment for Change. Human Arenas. ISSN 2522-5790. 5(1). doi: 10.1007/s42087-022-00275-w.
Tateo, Luca (2021). Psicologia cultural da pandemia: construindo sentidos.
Tateo, Luca (2021). THE NEED OF A UNIFIED THEORY OF IMAGINING. THE JUNKYARD A scholarly blog devoted to the study of imagination.
Tateo, Luca & Marsico, Giuseppina (2021). The Creative Synthesis and the Global Psychology. Human Arenas. ISSN 2522-5790. 4(1). doi: 10.1007/s42087-021-00201-6.
Carriere, Kevin J. & Tateo, Luca (2021). Luca Tateo Interview Culture & Psychology . [Internet]. Facebook.
Tateo, Luca (2020). Cognitive dynamics. Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics. 6(2), p. 253–259. doi: 10.18680/hss.2020.0032.
Tateo, Luca (2020). Injustiça Epistêmica na Educação.
Tateo, Luca & Marsico, Giuseppina (2020). Psychodiversity and anthropophagic psychology.
Tateo, Luca; Valerio, Tatiana & Bastos, Ana Clara (2020). TOWARDS A GENERAL STUDY OF IMAGINATIVE PROCESSES IN HUMAN PURPOSEFUL ACTION. In Valerio, Tatiana; Bastos, Ana Clara & Tateo, Luca (Ed.), From Dream to Action Imagination and (Im)Possible Futures. Information Age Publishing. ISSN 978-1-64802-279-1. p. xiii–xx.
Tateo, Luca (2020). Injustiça epistêmica e educação.
Tateo, Luca (2020). APA Div 52 Webinar:Face Masks as New Interface in Human Relations After Pandemic.
Tateo, Luca (2020). O conceito de tensão psicossocial e como ela se encaixa no contexto ambiental de uma comunidade urbana.
Tateo, Luca (2020). PANDEMIC DIALOGUES.
Tateo, Luca (2020). Atmos-Fear and Semiotic Devices: How to Turn the Right to Healthcare Into a War.
Tateo, Luca (2020). International frygtforsker om danskernes panik: »Har du et problem, så køber du noget«. [Newspaper]. Denmark.
Tateo, Luca (2020). Bases Históricas da Psicologia do Desenvolvimento.
Tateo, Luca (2020). Psicologia cultural e ensino das ciências: papel dos processos imaginativos.
Tateo, Luca & Marsico, Giuseppina (2020). Reviewing as Dialogical Development of Ideas. Human Arenas. ISSN 2522-5790. 3(1), p. 1–5. doi: 10.1007/s42087-020-00100-2.
Tateo, Luca (2019). An Epistemological Exchange Between Philosophy and Cultural Psychology on Reflection.

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Projects

The Politics of Disability Identity

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Challenges of Sustainability in Educational Research (COSER)