The Department of Pedagogy of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore promotes and develops an intense scientific research activity in the field of education and training sciences at various faculties and campuses of the University, in dialogue with humanities and hard sciences and in collaboration with national and international heuristics, institutions, foundations, associations and companies.

Major research areas include: general and social pedagogy; history of education, pedagogy and children's literature;  special pedagogy, didactics and educational technologies; experimental pedagogy; methods and didactics of motor activities, areas that are characterized by scientific and methodological rigor, as well as by the centrality attributed to the person and the community, in a pedagogical-educational dimension.