Integrated member
Sílvia de Almeida
Assistant Professor
Biographical Note
Research Interests
- Sociology of Education
- Sociology of the curriculum
- Curriculum policies
- Curriculum development
- School segregation
- Inclusion of immigrant students
- Mixed methods
- Qualitative methodologies
Relevant Publications
Almeida, S. de, Viana, J., Barcelos, N., Roldão, M. C., & Peralta, H. (2023). Network curriculum design? Relational dynamics of teachers’ associations in the design of Essential Learnings in Portugal. Revista Portuguesa de Educação. 36(1). https://revistas.rcaap.pt/rpe/article/view/24086
Almeida, S. de, Firmino, J., Gabriel, J. M., Hortas, M. J., & Nunes, L. C. (2023). Students with an immigrant background in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area Evidence at the municipal, school, and class levels. Revista Cidades, Comunidades e Territórios, 46, 59-77. https://doi.org/10.15847/cct.25864
Almeida, S. de, & Joana, V. (2022). Teachers as curriculum designers: What knowledge is needed? The Curriculum Journal. 34(3), 357-374. https://doi.org/10.1002/curj.199
Almeida, S. de (2022). Knowledge and curriculum. Curriculum integration in Portugal – a socio-historical approach. In S. de Almeida, F. Sousa & M. Figueiredo (Eds.), Curriculum autonomy policies: international trends, tensions and transformations (pp. 22-44). – Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University Lisbon. https://doi.org/10.34619/qqjq-cqt0
Meehan, A., Almeida, S. de, Bäckström, B., Borg-Axisa, G., Friant, N., Johannessen, Ø. L., & Roman, M. (2021). Context rules! Top-level education policies for newly arrived migrant students across six European countries. International Journal of Educational Research Open, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedro.2021.100046
Current PhD students
Jessica Henriques
Thematic approach to the development of the History curriculum
Cahilo Catoto Piety
The relationship between skill development in secondary and technical vocational education and work – challenges and opportunities in Angola
Simone Silva Grohs
The Philosophy curriculum: an analysis from April 25th until the Essential Learning
Erika Neder of the Saints
(Social Sciences Graduate Program from the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora – PPGCSO/UFJF)
The Implementation of educational public policy: the Lusitana experience in the paths of inclusion for students with disabilities
External collaborations
- Bárbara Bäckström (Universidade Aberta, Portugal)
- Catarina Oliveira (Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
- Francisco Sousa (Universidade dos Açores, Portugal)
- Luís Catela Nunes (Nova School of Business & Economics, Portugal)
- Maria João Hortas (Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Escola Superior de Lisboa, Portugal)
- Raquel Santana (Instituto Politécnico de Beja, Portugal)
- Antonina Tereshchenko (Brunel University London, UK)
- Michael Young (University College London, Institute of Education, United Kingdom)
- Seline Keating (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Alumni
- Marcelo Cardoso da Costa (PhD finished in 2023)
- Maria Raquel Rodrigues Santana (PhD finished in 2019)