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Intercultural education, Freirean studies

Biography

Luiza Cortesão is Emeritus Professor at the University of Porto and senior researcher at the Centre for Research and Intervention in Education (CIIE). Her research interests and expertise lie on in intercultural issues and Freirean studies, academic excellence and citizenship, adult education and action-research. She has developed intensive research and training and has published several books, book chapters and articles in national scientific journals in these themes. She has been involved in national and international research, action-research and training projects, particularly in Portuguese-speaking African countries. She has worked with and in international organizations such as OECD, SIDA (in Sweden), DANIDA (Denmark’s development cooperation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark), and above all, as a consultant, in UNESCO, working in Angola, Mozambique e Cabo Verde. In Portugal, she worked in different projects of Educational Innovation with the Secretary of State for Education, with Gep/Getap, with DGES and with General Directorate of Consular Affairs and Portuguese Communities, from Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At present, mainly, she develops collaborations with universities, associations and unions in Brazil. Professor Luiza chairs the Instituto Paulo Freire de Portugal (Paulo Freire’s Institute of Portugal). In 2002, she was awarded Grand Officer of the Portuguese Order of Public Instruction. The Honour recognizes her outstanding service to education and teaching.

Activities

Employment (2)

Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto: Porto, Portugal: Porto, PT

2004 to present | Emeritus Professor
Employment
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Luiza Cortesão

CIIE - Centre for Research and Intervention in Education, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto: Porto, Portugal: Porto, PT

1988 to present | Senior Researcher
Employment
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Luiza Cortesão

Education and qualifications (1)

Universidade do Porto: Porto, Porto, PT

1987-05-13 to 1988-02-23 | PhD (Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto )
Education
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Professional activities (2)

UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies: Los Angeles, CA, US

2022-11-01 | Rob Rhoads Global Citizenchip Education Ward (Paulo Frere Insitute, )
Distinction
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Luiza Cortesão

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia: Lisbon, Lisboa, PT

2022-05-18 | Medalha de Mérito (Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia e Ensino Superior)
Distinction
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Funding (4)

Xeno Tolerance – Supporting VET Teachers and Trainers to Prevent Radicalisation

2015-09 to 2017-09 | Grant
European Commission (Bruxelas, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

2015-1-FR01-KA202-015143

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Erasmus IP Education for Sustainable Development: Exploring Hopeful Pathways to Preferable Local and Global Futures

2010-09 to 2013-08 | Grant
European Commission (Bruxelas, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER:

E-464-1/07

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Luiza Cortesão

Erasmus IP: Educational Contributions to Cohesion and Wellbeing in European Social Life

2008-06 to 2010-06 | Grant
European Commission (Bruxelas, BE)
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SEARA PROJECT - SUCCESSFUL EDUCATION AND AGENCY ON RELATIVE AUTONOMY

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Works (38)

Refletindo sobre algumas das interessantes transgressões da obra de Freire<br>Reflecting on interesting transgressions in Freire's work

Saber & Educar
2022-12-07 | Journal article
Contributors: José Pedro Amorim; Luiza Cortesão
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Cortesão, L. (2021). Trabalho de Freire em África e a Pesquisa-Ação-Participativa

Revista Educação e Cultura Contemporânea, 18(55), 82-92
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Luiza Cortesão
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Procurando situar a produção de Freire no contexto de pesquisa socialmente implicadas

Centelhas de Transformação
2021 | Book chapter
Contributors: Luiza Cortesão
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Refletindo com Freire sobre formação de educadores

Unifreire
2020-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Luiza Cortesão
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Apesar de tudo… Que podemos nós, professores, fazer? [After all ... What can we, teachers, do ?]

Afrontamento
2018 | Book
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Contra o desperdício do conhecimento: Paulo Freire ontem e hoje [Against the waste of knowledge: Paulo Freire yesterday and today]. In Moacir Gadotti & Carnoy (Org.), Revisitando Paulo Freire, reinventando a educação: a práxis do Instituto Paulo Freire. (in press).Stanford, CA: IPF; University of Stanford. (in press).

2018 | Book chapter
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O pensamento de paulo freire e o "arco-íris sociocultural da sala de aula": entrevista com Luiza Cortesão

Curriculo sem Fronteiras
2018 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85047913960

Contributors: Cortesão, L.; Pavan, R.
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O valor da prática em Paulo Freire. [The value of practice in Paulo Freire]

Revista Reflexão e Ação
2018 | Journal article
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Paulo Freire working in and from Europe. In Carlos Alberto Torres (Org.), The Wiley handbook on Freire (in press).

John Wiley and Sons.
2018 | Book chapter
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Outro reencontro com a Pedagogia do Oprimido e a Pedagogia da Esperança

Educação em Perspectiva
2018-12-30 | Journal article
Contributors: Luiza Cortesão
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Educação: Algumas questões desafiantes, algumas possibilidades [Education: Some challenging questions, some possibilities]

Congresso Paulo Freire e a 'Educação como Prática Liberdade’: 50 anos depois. Centro de Formação Escolas António Sérgio. Lisboa.
2017 | Lecture
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Luiza Cortesão

A Alfabetização na Perspetiva de Paulo Freire [Literacy in Paulo Freire's Perspective].

IV ALFAeEJA: Encontro Internacional de Alfabetização e Educação de Jovens e Adultos. Universidade do Minho. Braga.
2017 | Lecture
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Luiza Cortesão

Alfabetização na perspetiva de Paulo Freire [Literacy in the perspective of Paulo Freire].

Revista Brasileira de Alfabetização, 1(5),139-151
2017 | Journal article
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Luiza Cortesão

Percursos de formação de professores: A vida, a escola e o trabalho sem fim da constituição profissional [Pathways to teacher training: The life, school and work endless professional constitution]. In Alexandre Costa (Org.), Diálogos continuados na formação de professores: Conjunturas, objetos e vertentes teórico-metodológicas

Imprensa Universitária da Universidade Federal de Goiás.
2017 | Book chapter
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Luiza Cortesão

Pesquisa-ação, um “escândalo epistemológico útil”? [Action research, a "useful epistemological scandal"?].

I Congresso Bienal Rede Lusófona EstreiaDialógos. Bauru (SP), Brasil
2017 | Lecture
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Transgressões em Paulo Freire [Transgressions in Paulo Freire]. In Alexandre Shigunov Neto & Ivan Fortunato (Orgs.), 20 anos sem Paulo Freire: Trajetórias de sua pedagogia libertária (pp. 133-147).

Edições Hipótese.
2017 | Book chapter
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Guliver entre gigantes: Na tensão entre estrutura e agência, que significados para a educação? [[Gulliver among giants: In the tension between structure and agency, what meanings for education?]

Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, 39, 159-177.
2013 | Journal article
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Multiculturalism and educational policy in a global context (European perspectives)

Globalization and Education: Critical Perspectives
2013 | Book chapter
EID:

2-s2.0-85071197745

Contributors: Stoer, S.R.; Cortesão, L.
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Ouvindo Ramalde: Memórias e registos[Listening to Ramalde: Memories and records]

Junta de Freguesia de Ramalde
2013 | Book
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Luiza Cortesão

Caleidoscópio de Fragmentos Culturais. Guimarães: Guimarães Capital Europeia da Cultura

Projecto Raízes, IPFP, com CRPF e CIIE.
2012 | Book
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Luiza Cortesão

Discutindo autonomia relativa com professores: A indisciplina como (contra)argumento [Discussing relative autonomy with teachers: The indiscipline as (counter) argument].

Livpsic.
2012 | Book
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Identity(ies), citizenship(s) and migration: A complex relationship.

Encyclopaideia, 8(33), 51-70.
2012 | Journal article
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O mundo todo é de todo o mundo. Guimarães: Guimarães Capital Europeia da Cultura

Projecto Raízes, IPFP, com CRPF e CIIE.
2012 | Book
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Luiza Cortesão

Professor: produtor e/ou tradutor de conhecimentos? trabalhando no contexto do arco-íris sociocultural da sala de aula

Educação & Realidade
2012 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2175-6236
Contributors: Luiza Cortesão
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'School does not teach burying the dead': The complexity of cultural dialogue

Pedagogy, Culture and Society
2011 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1080/14681366.2011.548994

Contributors: Cortesã, L.; Cuale, J.C.
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Educação e exclusões: Na tensão entre a cumplicidade e o embargo. In Eunice Macedo (Ed.), Porque uma educação outra é possível

Instituto Paulo Freire de Portugal.
2011 | Book chapter
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Porquê Paulo Freire e Amílcar Cabral?

2011 | Journal article
Contributors: Luiza Cortesão
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Ser professor: Um ofício em risco de extinção?[Being a teacher: A craft in danger of extinction?].

Cortez.
2011 | Book
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Teachers and 'resting routines': Reflections on cognitive justice, inclusion and the pedagogy of poverty

Improving Schools
2011 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1177/1365480211422284

Contributors: Cortesão, L.
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Critical inter/multicultural education and the process of transnationalization: A view from the semiperiphery

Education, Globalisation and New Times
2007 | Book
EID:

2-s2.0-84911092221

Contributors: Stoer, S.R.; Cortesão, L.
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Será a educação a "culpada"?

EccoS – Revista Científica
2005-06-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1983-9278
Contributors: Luiza Cortesão
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Action-research and the Production of Knowledge in a Teacher Education based on Inter/Multicultural Education

Intercultural Education
2001-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1467-5986
Contributors: Stephen R. Stoer; Luiza O Cortesa
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Action-research and the Production of Knowledge in a Teacher Education based on Inter/Multicultural Education

Intercultural Education
2001-04-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1469-8439
Contributors: Stephen R. Stoer; Luiza O Cortesa
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The reconstruction of home/school relations: Portuguese conceptions of the 'responsible parent'

International Studies in Sociology of Education
1999-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0962-0214
Contributors: Stephen R. Stoer; Luiza Cortesao
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Critical inter/multicultural education and the process of transnationalisation: A view from the semiperiphery

Journal of Education Policy
1995 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84948627315

Contributors: Stoer, S.R.; Cortesão, L.
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Inter/Multicultural Education on the European (Semi)periphery: Notes on an action-research project in four Portuguese schools

European Journal of Intercultural studies
1995 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84954020368

Contributors: Stoer, S.R.; Cortesâo, L.
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Notes on contributors

European Journal of Teacher Education
1995 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84959939915

Contributors: Bengtsson, J.; Busch, F.; Cortesão, L.; Coulby, D.; Cozma, T.; Cucos, C.; Dafiniou, I.; Iacob, L.; Manta, M.; Neculau, A. et al.
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The State, Curriculum and Teacher Education in Portugal: 1926–1981

European Journal of Teacher Education
1995 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84972823601

Contributors: Stoer, S.R.; CortesãO, L.
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