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Sílvia Alves

Faculdade de Educação, Universidade Técnica do Porto
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Investigadora Auxiliar. Doutorada em Psicologia pela Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto. É Investigadora integrada no Centro de Investigação e Inovação em Educação (inED) da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Técnica do Porto, integrando a Direção desta unidade de investigação desde 2025 e Professora Adjunta Convidada no Mestrado em Educação Especial – Multideficiência e Problemas de Cognição. Há 18 anos que desenvolve a sua atividade profissional e académica em estreita ligação com escolas, professores e outros profissionais da educação, no âmbito da educação especial e inclusiva. Desenvolve investigação centrada na educação inclusiva, nomeadamente na avaliação e implementação de políticas educativas, na formação de professores para a inclusão, na participação das pessoas com deficiência e na qualidade das respostas educativas e sociais. Ao longo do percurso, tem participado em diversos projetos de investigação nacionais e internacionais na área da educação especial e inclusiva. Recentemente, coordenou o projeto "Residential Care Quality Indicators for Children and Young People with Disabilities", financiado pela Fundação La Caixa; participou no projeto centrado na evolução das políticas educativas e dos direitos das pessoas com deficiência em Portugal, financiado pela FCT “O 25 de Abril e a democracia portuguesa: visibilidade e repercussões no direito à educação e cidadania do grupo minoritário das pessoas com deficiência”.

 

Assistant Researcher. Holds a PhD in Psychology from the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences at the University of Porto. She is an integrated researcher at the Centre for Research and Innovation in Education (inED) at the Faculty of Education of the University of Porto—serving on the unit’s management board since 2025—and an Adjunct Invited Professor for the Master’s program in Special Education (focusing on multiple disabilities and cognitive impairments). For the past 18 years, she has pursued her professional and academic career in close collaboration with schools, teachers, and other education professionals within the field of special and inclusive education. Her research centers on inclusive education, specifically the evaluation and implementation of educational policies, teacher training for inclusion, the participation of individuals with disabilities, and the quality of educational and social support services. Throughout her career, she has participated in various national and international research projects in the field of special and inclusive education. Most recently, she coordinated the project "Residential Care Quality Indicators for Children and Young People with Disabilities," funded by the La Caixa Foundation. She also participated in a project—funded by the FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology)—examining the evolution of educational policies and the rights of people with disabilities in Portugal, titled "The 25th of April and Portuguese Democracy: Visibility and Repercussions for the Right to Education and Citizenship of the Minority Group of People with Disabilities."

Publicações

Artigo
Cadernos de Pesquisa | 2023

A. Ribeiro

F. Machado

M. Soares

V. Coelho

H. Azevedo

Journal Article
Child Indicators Research | 2022

Projetos

 CARES-Deaf aims to help higher education institutions and future sign language interpreters respond to the European call of deaf citizens to…
Deafness is today understood as a difference in human experience - distanced from traditional conceptions of disability and disability - which is…
The specific purpose of this project is to promote teachers in their role as key actors in realizing inclusive education. An innovative assessment…
Green guidance is a development of career guidance in which people are supported to make their education, training and employment choices with an…
I CO-COPE: Inclusão através da Colaboração Interprofissional numa Comunidade de Prática em Educação Ref: 2022-1-BE02-KA220-SCH-000089287 Duration:…
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…