Vanessa De Oliveira Andreotti

Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti is Professor of Global Education at the University of Oulu, Finland. Drawing on postcolonial and postcritical theories, her research focuses on educational patterns of representations and engagements with otherness, inequalities and global change. She has extensive international experience working inter-disciplinarily and across sectors in the areas of international development and global citizenship education. Vanessa is the coordinator of the World Educational...See more

Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti is Professor of Global Education at the University of Oulu, Finland. Drawing on postcolonial and postcritical theories, her research focuses on educational patterns of representations and engagements with otherness, inequalities and global change. She has extensive international experience working inter-disciplinarily and across sectors in the areas of international development and global citizenship education. Vanessa is the coordinator of the World Educational Research Association Global Ethics International Research Network and the author of Actionable Postcolonial Theory in Education (2011), and Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education (with Lynn Mario de Souza) (2012). See less