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Maria Manuela Pires Sanches Fernandes Ferreira

Faculdade de Educação, Universidade Técnica do Porto
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Manuela Sanches-Ferreira é Professora Coordenadora da Unidade Técnico-Científica de Educação Especial  e Inclusão da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Técnica do Porto (UTP).  Licenciada, Mestre e Doutora  em Psicologia pela Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto.

As  áreas científicas de interesse são a formação de professores e de outros profissionais para a construção de ambientes inclusivos, a avaliação de políticas educativas em educação e a optimização das condições de ensino na sala de aula, como forma de garantir a equidade de condições para a aprendizagem.

Tem estado envolvida, como coordenadora ou como participante, em vários  projectos relacionados com políticas de educação especial e inclusão, de onde destaca  a liderança  da avaliação externa da implementação da legislação portuguesa sobre educação especial (2009-2010), perita portuguesa em projectos da Agência Europeia para as Necessidades Especiais e a Educação Inclusiva, como o Teacher Education for Inclusion: Profile of Inclusive Teachers (2009-2011) e Raising Achievement for All Learners (2012, 2013; 2014-2016) e a consultoria à UNICEF-Arménia ( 2012; 2015) para a revisão  do processo de avaliação das necessidades educativas especiais. No domínio da intervenção comunitária e da educação,desenvolveu projectos,   entre 1990 e 2000, subsidiados por fundos nacionais - e.g. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundação Aga Khan, Ministério da Saúde - e europeus - e.g. Programas Leonardo da Vinci, Sócrates, Grundtvig e Comenius.

As suas publicações recentes centram-se na formação de professores para a inclusão, na utilização da CIF-CJ na avaliação e elegibilidade das necessidades de apoio adicionais e na adaptação e validação de instrumentos, cujos resultados possam servir, em simultâneo, de   indicadores para a mobilização de apoios e programas de promoção de competências para crianças/ e jovens com necessidades adicionais, e avaliação dos resultados desses programas.  

Durante  oito anos foi directora do Centro de Investigação e Inovação em Educação (inED), correspondente ao período em que o Centro passou a integrar os centros de investigação FCT com a classificação de Bom e, na segunda avaliação tendo recebido a classificação de Muito Bom. É coordenadora do Mestrado em Educação Especial: Problemas de Cognição e Multideficiência e da Unidade de Apoio à Escola Inclusiva.

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Manuela Sanches-Ferreira is a Coordinating Professor in the Technical and Scientific Unit for Special and Inclusive Education at the Faculty of Education of the Technical University of Porto (UTP). She holds a degree, a Master's degree, and a PhD in Psychology from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto.

Her main areas of expertise include teacher and professional education for inclusive environments, evaluation of educational policies, and the optimisation of teaching and learning conditions in the classroom as a means of ensuring equity and inclusion in education.

She has participated, both as coordinator and researcher, in several projects related to special education and inclusive education policies. These include leading the external evaluation of the implementation of Portuguese special education legislation (2009-2010), serving as the Portuguese expert in projects promoted by the European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education, such as Teacher Education for Inclusion: Profile of Inclusive Teachers (2009-2011) and Raising Achievement for All Learners (2012, 2013, 2014-2016), and acting as consultant to UNICEF Armenia (2012; 2015) in the review of procedures for assessing special educational needs. In the fields of community intervention and education, she also developed projects between 1990 and 2000 funded by national organisations, including the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Aga Khan Foundation, and the Portuguese Ministry of Health, as well as European programmes such as Leonardo da Vinci, Socrates, Grundtvig, and Comenius.

Her recent publications focus on teacher education for inclusion, the use of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health for Children and Youth (ICF-CY) in the assessment and determination of eligibility for additional support needs, and the adaptation and validation of assessment instruments. These instruments are intended both to support decision-making regarding educational provision and to evaluate the outcomes of interventions designed to promote the development of children and young people with additional support needs.

For eight years, she served as Director of inED – Centre for Research and Innovation in Education, a period during which the Centre achieved the classification of Good and subsequently Very Good in the evaluations conducted by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).

She currently coordinates the Master's Degree in Special Education: Cognitive Disabilities and Multiple Disabilities and the Inclusive School Support Unit.

Publicações

Journal Article
Education in The Knowledge Society (EKS) | 2018

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Having in mind the main goals of the project, the proposed activities will support European priorities of KA 2 project in national/EU international…
EMPOWER ME! project main priority addresses Social Inclusion. As described further, if people with ADHD symptoms do not receive appropriate supports…
This project integrates the primary goal of the Support Unit for Inclusive Schools to help improve the inclusion process of students with…
The idea of ​​a continuum of services in education has been the subject of interest by researchers and politicians (Berkeley et al., 2009; Björn et…
This project results from the work carried out by this team since 2009, with the translation, adaptation and standardization for the Portuguese…
The existence of increasing numbers of students with disabilities accessing higher education (HE) does not necessarily mean that HE institutions are…
It is through participation, defined as involvement in real life situations (WHO, 2001, 2007), that children form friendships, develop competencies,…
In Portugal, the Occupational Activity Centers (CAO) are the primary support response for young people and adults whose disability situation prevents…