MELLO, Roseli R.

Biography

Dr. Roseli Rodrigues de Mello has been a senior professor since 2022 and full professor since 2016 at the Department of Pedagogical Theories and Practice (DTPP) at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil. She graduated in Pedagogy and completed her Masters and Doctorate in Education at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar). She has worked as a researcher and teacher trainer at UFSCar since 1992. From 1999 to 2022, she supervised 28 master's theses and 23 doctoral theses in Education. She did her first postdoctoral research in 2001-2002 with the Community for Research in Excellence for All (CREA) at the University of Barcelona / Spain. On her return, she founded the Nucleus for Research and Social and Educational Action (NIASE), being in charge of coordination. She transferred to Brazil the transformation of schools into Learning Communities and Dialogical Literary Gathering. She is the coordinator of international agreements. She coordinates and participates in national and international research. She has published dozens of articles in renowned national and international journals. She has ten books published. She was coordinator of the Affirmative Actions Program at UFSCar between 2012 and 2013. She was a CNPq research productivity fellow from 2008 to 2018 and from 2023 upto now. She was part of the Post-Graduate Monitoring Committee of Capes / Brazil, in the 2007-2009 triennium, and in the 2010-2012 triennium. In university extension, since 2002, she coordinates and/or integrates teams to train schools and teaching networks, in Brazil and in six other Latin American countries, in successful actions, in learning communities and in the prevention of gender-based violence . The emphasis of his academic work is in the line of Teaching and Learning and Teacher Training, dedicating herself to the following themes: dialogic learning, learning communities, successful educational actions, dialogic gatherings, educational research based on scientific evidence, adult education, teaching transformation activities, Freirian foundations of education, prevention of gender violence.