Ana Cristina Torres
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Ana Cristina Torres is researcher at the Center for Educational Research and Intervention (CIIE) da Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto. She holds a PhD in Didactics and Training, specializing in Curricular Development in Science Education (University of Aveiro) and a Degree in Teaching Biology-Geology (University of Porto).
She has carried out research regarding curriculum and pedagogical development, professional development of teachers, student “voices” and participation in curriculum and school issues, and environmental and climate education for sustainability, resulting in several publications on other topics.
At CIIE, she is involved in the communities of practice IDEAFor – Identity, Democracy, School, Administration and Training and PCEP – Participation, Communities and Political Education, in addition to being part of the coordination team for the strategy area “Pedagogical management and democratic participation”. Currently, she is part of the coordination of the national team of an Erasmus+ KA3 project on social inclusion in schools (COSI.ed, 2021-2024), of a national project funded by CCRN on civic and political participation of young people in climate adaptation from the school (ClimActiC, 2021-2023) and a national project funded by FCT on peer observation and self-regulation of learning (WAY, 2023-2026). She also collaborates in university teaching, in curricular units of Environmental and Climate Education for Sustainability and in Psychosociology of Educational Institutions.