Research Group
6: Education, Science and Culture
Research Areas
Education and Training.
Bio note
PhD in Social Anthropology, Post-doctorate in Social Work, Aggregate in Anthropology of Education from ISCTE and Master in Social Anthropology and Sociology of Culture from FCSH-UNL, graduated in Anthropology, FCSH. In 2000, he was awarded the Rui Grácio Prize, a national award for the best research work in Education carried out in Portugal, SPCE. He is currently Full Professor at the School of Education and Social Sciences of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Dean of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria and an Integrated Researcher at CICS.NOVA.IPLeiria. His research focuses on personal, social and professional identities, life stories and interculturality, intercultural mediation, social pedagogy, social intervention and social gerontology, subjects on which he has published several texts and books in Portugal and abroad. She has worked in Portugal with Raul Iturra, and in France with Pierre Bourdieu, François Bonvin, Monique Saint-Martin and Marie Elisabeth Handman.
