Dr. Teresa M. Cappiali is an internationally recognized academic, consultant, and the founder and CEO of NOIWE – No Innovation Without Education, a Sweden-based start-up advancing educational and social innovation globally. She also serves as an Affiliated Senior Researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI). Her expertise spans critical areas such as migration, inequalities, racism, gender, intersectionality, diversity, and discrimination, with a strong focus on inclusive education and social transformation.

She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Université de Montréal and has held research and teaching appointments at leading institutions including Cornell University, the University of Toronto, Concordia University, the European University Institute, and Lund University. Dr. Cappiali has conducted extensive fieldwork across Europe, North Africa, and North America, and has trained and mentored students, teachers, and practitioners from around the world.
She is the creator of Transformative-Emancipatory Pedagogy (TEP)—a forward-looking educational model that fosters inclusive, critical, and socially engaged learning in diverse and often polarized environments. The mission of TEP is to equip learners and educators to navigate complex, sensitive, and controversial issues while fostering personal growth, civic responsibility, and collective transformation. TEP emphasizes holistic, dialogical, and experiential approaches that challenge structural inequalities and cultivate deeper engagement with today’s societal challenges.
Dr. Cappiali is the author of several international academic articles and books, including Transformative-Emancipatory Pedagogy to Reimagine Education: Teaching Controversies in Diverse Settings (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), which lays the theoretical and practical foundation of TEP and underscores its global relevance.

Residency at IAS-UM6P:

During her residency at the UM6P Institute for Advanced Studies, Dr. Teresa M. Cappiali develops the project TRANSFORM_EDUC: Transformative-Emancipatory Pedagogy (TEP) to Reimagine Education: Exploring the Application and Impact in North and Sub-Saharan Africa. The project seeks to contribute to a broader paradigm shift in education by designing and testing an integrated pedagogical framework that promotes holistic, inclusive, and experiential learning across diverse contexts.

TRANSFORM_EDUC advances Transformative-Emancipatory Pedagogy (TEP), a unified model that brings together transformative learning, socio-emotional learning, critical pedagogy, and experiential approaches to education. The framework aims to foster not only academic knowledge but also well-being, ethical awareness, critical thinking, and collective empowerment. Through an interdisciplinary and mixed-method research approach, the project works to systematize innovative pedagogical models, develop tailored interventions, and evaluate their impact across different educational environments.

Within the IAS context, the residency focuses on exploring the relevance and applicability of TEP in Morocco and across North and Sub-Saharan Africa. Through collaboration with educators, researchers, and institutional partners, the project designs and pilots training models and workshops adapted to regional educational reforms and societal challenges. By situating the research within Morocco’s evolving educational landscape, the residency contributes to advancing inclusive and transformative educational practices while strengthening international dialogue on the future of education.