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Tenured associate professors | CHAT, Change Laboratory

Daniele Morselli

Daniele.Morselli@unibz.it

+39 0472 014121

Faculty of Education
Regensburger Allee 16 - viale Ratisbona, 16
39042
Brixen-Bressanone
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In 2014, I obtained a jointly awarded PhD from the University of Melbourne and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. My doctoral research focused on Change Laboratory–type workshops for vocational education and training (VET) students at the boundary between school and work.

Between 2014 and 2015, I worked as a junior researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

From 2015 to 2017, I was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki. The project aimed to develop and test a Change Laboratory intervention for teachers’ entrepreneurship education.

Between 2017 and 2018, I was a Fulbright Research Scholar at Ohio University (USA), where I investigated innovative practices in entrepreneurship education.

From 2018 to 2021, I served as a junior fixed-term researcher (RTD-A) at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. From 2021 to 2024, I was a senior fixed-term researcher (RTD-B) at the same institution. Since 2024, I have been Associate Professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.

During my career, I received the SIPED Award in 2021 for my Springer monograph (2019) and the SIRD “Aldo Visalberghi” Award in 2022 for my publication in the journal Teaching and Teacher Education.

Courses

Educational and Instructional Design

84010 · PAED-02/B · Training Course for Substantial Suitability · IT

Evaluation and Development of Kindergarten and Primary School

11420C · PAED-02/B · 5 year master degree in Primary Education - Italian section · EN

General Didactics with an Emphasis on the Age Range 5-12 (Lab.)

11407D · PAED-02/A · 5 year master degree in Primary Education - Italian section · IT

General Didactics with an Emphasis on the Age Range 5-12 (Lab.)

11407D · PAED-02/A · 5 year master degree in Primary Education - Ladin section · IT

General Didactics: Planning and Evaluation

11407C · PAED-02/A · 5 year master degree in Primary Education - Italian section · IT

General Didactics: Planning and Evaluation

11407C · PAED-02/A · 5 year master degree in Primary Education - Ladin section · IT

Innovative Practices in Educational Contexts

53150A · PAED-02/A · Master in Social Work and Social Policy · EN

Media Pedagogy and Didactics

12420A · PAED-02/A · 5 year master degree in Primary Education - German section · EN

Media Pedagogy and Didactics

12420A · PAED-02/A · 5 year master degree in Primary Education - Ladin section · EN

Preparation for the Master Thesis (Lab.)

11420D · PAED-02/B · 5 year master degree in Primary Education - Italian section · IT

Preparation for the Master Thesis (Lab.)

13420D · PAED-02/B · 5 year master degree in Primary Education - Ladin section · IT

Students Sprint (23-27/02/2026)

25577 · ECON-07/A · Master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation · EN

Working for competences 2

84004 · PAED-02/B · Training Course for the teaching qualification procedure · IT

Research Focuses

Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT)

My research is primarily grounded in Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT).

Within third-generation CHAT, I study and implement the Change Laboratory as an intervention methodology in schools and organizational settings, aimed at fostering social change, educational innovation, and the development of collective transformative agency.

Within fourth-generation CHAT, my work explores multiple and interconnected Change Laboratories as infrastructures for collaborative transformation, with the aim of advancing utopian horizons of equity and inclusion in education.

Entrepreneurship Education

Entrepreneurship education in compulsory schooling, with particular attention to its pedagogical foundations and innovative teaching practices.

Curriculum Design and Competence Development

Curriculum design and competence development, with a focus on the constructive alignment between learning outcomes, assessment practices, and teaching and learning activities.

Selected publications

Morselli, D., & Weyland, B. C. (2025). Transitioning to Open Classrooms: Analysing Discursive Manifestations of Contradictions Prior to a Change Laboratory in a Kindergarten. Sustainability, 17(18), 8413.
Morselli, D. & Schumacher, S. (2025). The Age of AI in faculty development. Survey insights on integration of digital tools and AI. Pedagogia oggi, 23(1), 99-106. https://doi.org/10.7346/PO-012025-12
Morselli, D., & Favaretto, M. (2025). A mapping review of Vygotskian formative interventions. Formazione & insegnamento, 23(1), 182- 189. https://doi.org/10.7346/-fei-XXIII-01-25_22
Morselli, D. (2024). To assess or not to assess an entrepreneurship competence in vocational education and training? Results from a case study of Italy. Education+ Training, 66(10), 29-41.
Morselli, D., & Orzes, G. (2023). Evaluating an interfaculty entrepreneurship program based on challenge-based learning through the EntreComp framework. The International Journal of Management Education, 21(3), 100869.
Kakouris, A., Morselli, D., & Pittaway, L. (2023). Educational theory driven teaching in entrepreneurship. The International Journal of Management Education, 21(2), 100814.
Morselli, D., & Marcelli, A. M. (2022). The role of qualitative research in Change Laboratory interventions. Journal of Workplace Learning, 34(2), 215-228.
Morselli, D. (2022). Creativity as expansive learning. In How to Develop Entrepreneurial Graduates, Ideas and Ventures (pp. 66-73). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Morselli, D., Kakouris, A. (2022). Teaching Entrepreneurship to Undergraduates: A Vygotskian Perspective. In: Larios-Hernandez, G.J., Walmsley, A., Lopez-Castro, I. (eds) Theorising Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87865-8_4
Morselli, D., & Gorenc, J. (2022). Using the EntreComp framework to evaluate two entrepreneurship education courses based on the Korda Method. The International Journal of Management Education, 20(1), 100591.
Morselli, D. (2021). A three-levels analysis of double stimulation in a Change Laboratory. Journal of Workplace Learning, 33(7), 505-522.
Morselli, D., & Sannino, A. (2021). Testing the model of double stimulation in a Change Laboratory. Teaching and Teacher Education, 97, 103224.
Kakouris, A., Morselli, D. (2020). Addressing the Pre/Post-university Pedagogy of Entrepreneurship Coherent with Learning Theories. In: Sawang, S. (eds) Entrepreneurship Education. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48802-4_3
Morselli, D. (2019). The change laboratory for teacher training in entrepreneurship education: A new skills agenda for Europe (p. 143). Springer Nature.
Morselli, D. (2018). How do Italian vocational teachers educate for a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship? Development and initial application of the SIE questionnaire. Education+ Training, 60(7/8), 800-818.
Morselli, D. (2018). Teaching a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship with constructive alignment in tertiary non-business contexts. Education+ Training, 60(2), 122-138.
Morselli, D. (2017). Boundary crossing workshops for enterprise education: A capability approach. In Entrepreneurship Education (Vol. 7, pp. 283-306). Emerald Publishing Limited.
Morselli, D. (2016). Enterprise education in vocational education: A comparative study between Italy and Australia. Springer.
Morselli, D., & Ajello, A. (2016). Assessing the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship in vocational students using the European qualification framework. Education+ Training, 58(7/8), 797-814.
Morselli, D., Costa, M., & Margiotta, U. (2014). Entrepreneurship education based on the Change Laboratory. The International Journal of Management Education, 12(3), 333-348.
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