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Maria Manuela Pires Sanches Fernandes Ferreira

Escola Superior de Educação do Porto
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Maria Manuela Sanches Ferreira é Professora Coordenadora da Unidade Técnico-Científica de Educação Especial da Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico do Porto (ESEP). Licenciada em Psicologia pela Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto, obteve o grau de Mestre e de Doutoramento na mesma instituição.

As suas áreas científicas de interesse e de pesquisa são a formação de professores para a inclusão, a avaliação e habilitação de contextos educativos e a incapacidade intelectual. É coordenadora do Mestrado em Educação Especial: Problemas da Cognição e Multideficiência e da Unidade de Apoio à Escola Inclusiva; e é Diretora do Centro de Investigação e Inovação em Educação – inED.

Tem estado envolvida, como coordenadora, em projetos relacionados com politicas de educação especial e inclusão, tendo conduzido a avaliação externa da implementação da legislação portuguesa de educação especial (2009-2010); e prestado consultadoria à UNICEF-Armenia para a revisão da avaliação das necessidades educativas especiais.

Salienta-se, também, a participação enquanto especialista Portuguesa em projectos da European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education , tais como o Teacher Education for Inclusion: Profile of Inclusive Teachers (2009-2011) e Raising Achievement for All Learners (2012, 2013; 2014-2016), e enquanto coordenadora da equipa portuguesa de projectos como  :” BASE - BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT TO IMPROVE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT” (2017-2020), e “BEHAViour management models across Europe” (2017-2020), projectos Erasmus+.

Ao longo dos anos desenvolveu, participou e coordenou diversos projetos na área da intervenção comunitária e da educação, subsidiados com fundos nacionais – e.g. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundação Aga Khan, Ministério da Saúde - e europeus – e.g. Programas Leonardo da Vinci, Socrates, Grundtvig e Comenius.

As suas publicações recentes focam a formação de professores para a inclusão, o uso da CIF-CJ na avaliação e elegibilidade de necessidades adicionais de suporte.

 

Maria Manuela Sanches Ferreira is a Coordinator Professor at the School of Education, Porto Polytechnic. She obtained the Licensure, Master and the PhD in Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto. Her research interests are teacher training, assessment and habilitation of educative contexts and intellectual disability. She coordinates the Master in "Special Education: Cognition and profound disabilities" and the "Support Unit for Inclusive Schools"; and she is the Coordinator of the Centre for Research and Innovation in Education (inED).

She has been involved as coordinator in projects concerning special education and inclusion policies, having conducted the national evaluation of the implementation of the Portuguese special education law 3/2008 (2009-2010), and also having provided consultancy to  UNICEF Armenia in the revision of “special education needs assessment” (from January to November 2013). 

She has been the Portuguese Specialist in projects from the European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education, such as “Teacher Education for Inclusion” and “Raising Achievement for All” and the coordinator of the Portuguese team in projects as:” BASE - BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT TO IMPROVE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT” (2017-2020), and “BEHAViour management models across Europe” (2017-2020), Erasmus+ project.

She has coordinated several educational and community intervention projects in Portugal funded, for example, by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Aga Khan Foundation, and Ministry of Health and also international projects under, for example, Grundtvig, Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci programmes.
Recent publications are in the area of teacher education for inclusion, the use of the ICF-CY in additional support needs assessment and eligibility process.

Publications

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

C. Vancraeyveldt

A. Boland

S. Grofcíková

A. Klimentova

I. Oenema-Mostert

Projects

Identifying the prevalence, course, and correlates of behavior problems across childhood is of broad interest for researchers, clinical practitioners…
Friendship; inclusive education; social participation. Many studies, especially on the social situation of students with special educational needs…
According to the most recent OECD report[1] (OECD, 2022), developed at the request of the Ministry of Education, and entitled “Review of Inclusive…
Objective 1: To describe the state of residential care for children and young people with disabilities, with regard to the characteristics and…
ProuD To Teach All’ is an ambitious Erasmus+-project which supports the fourth United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of inclusive and quality…
  A pandemia devida ao COVID-19 tem tido efeitos rápidos e amplos na nossa sociedade global, fazendo mesmo questionar-nos, a nós educadores e pais,…
What does one learn by cycling? This will be the starting point that will lead us to explore the potentialities of velomobility in response to the…
Although schools should be one of the safest places for children and students in general, the incidence of acts of school violence such as vandalism…