Part of my journey
I am originally from São Paulo, Brazil. I started my research career as a Biologist, and for some years, I worked with Ecology, investigating plant communities in the rich Atlantic Forests, with internships at the São Paulo Forest Institute and the Tropical Forest Ecology Laboratory at USP. During college, I became interested in science education, involving myself in outreach projects and being a volunteer science teacher in adult education at the Legion of Goodwill (a nonprofit organization providing educational and social assistance programs for economically disadvantaged communities). During my master's degree at the University of São Paulo, I started to design curriculum materials with the inquiry-based science education approach. Since then, I decided to dedicate myself primarily to science/biology education.
Images from Ecology in Restinga: a didactic argumentative sequence (published in Portuguese).
Already involved in research in science teaching, I became engaged in developing teaching materials that incorporate principles of scientific literacy. As a result, I have written science teaching materials adopted in the public school system of São Paulo, digital teaching resources for smartphones used in several Brazilian states, and for some of the leading Brazilian educational publishers. In recent years, I have had the opportunity to improve my teaching practices by teaching students from multiple contexts and levels (high school, adult education -10 year-experience -, undergraduate, graduate, and professional development). In addition, I have conducted research with a mixed-methods approach, dialoguing with the nature of science, inquiry-based education, and the design and evaluation of science education curricula.
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Illustrations of some of the didactic materials produced.
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