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Sara de Barros Araújo

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Sara Barros Araújo is a teacher at the School of Education of Polytechnic Institute of Porto since 2005. She holds a Ph.D in Child Studies (Methodology and Supervision of Early Childhood Education), a MA in Educational Psychology and a graduate degree in Psychology. She is the coordinator of the Master in Early Childhood Education since 2011. For the past 20 years, she has been involved in preservice and in-service education of early childhood teachers. She has also been involved in research projects in the domains of early childhood pedagogy, quality of centre-based education and care for children under-threes and praxeological research. She was the invited Portuguese expert in the transnational project "Seepro-r: Workforce profiles in systems of early childhood education and care in Europe". She is a member of the Scientific Committee and researcher of the Centre for Research and Innovation in Education (inED). She has been collaborating with the European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA) as the Country Coordinator for Portugal and Convenor of the Special Interest Group (SIG) "Birth to Three". 

Publications

Book Chapter
Early childhood education and care in a global pandemic: How the sector responded, spoke back and generated knowledge | 2022

A. Silva

R. Rosário

Book Chapter
Teacher education and play pedagogies: International perspetives | 2022

C. Vancraeyveldt

A. Boland

S. Grofcíková

A. Klimentova

I. Oenema-Mostert

Projects

Overview: The project serves the basic need of all partners and their respective target groups to effectively address behavior problems from the…
Teacher well-being, a multidimensional concept, can be translated as the teacher's motivation and fulfilment in the face of the professional demands…
Professional Development Tools Supporting Participation Rights in Early Childhood Education (2019-1-PT01-KA202-060950) -     Since the adoption…
Across Europe, national systems of early childhood education and care (ECEC) are undergoing both expansion and consolidation, and the staff working…
Having in mind the main goals of the project, the proposed activities will support European priorities of KA 2 project in national/EU international…
The social and technological revolution has provoked the re-creation of the industrial paradigm and the birth of a new era whose sustainability…