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Vanessa Silva
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Research Fields
Adult Education
Lifelong learning
Literacy
low educated adults
Social Inequalities
Research Methods
Social Change
Life stories
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Education and Science
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Sociologist, PhD in Sociology, researcher at CIES, Visiting Assistant Professor at Iscte, Visiting Adjunct Professor at Escola Superior de Educação de Santarém, Pedagogical Coordinator of the STEAM Academies Project, PRR Amadora, Local Integrated Operations (Encosta do Sol and Mina de Água). Research projects in sociology related to adult education, training, and lifelong learning, focusing on less educated adults. PhD project entitled: Staying Out: Contexts, Processes, Dispositions and Reflexivities of Adults with Little Schooling Who Have Not Resumed Formal Education.Her academic career began with a degree in Sociology (2005). It continued with a Master's degree in Sociology (ISCTE-IUL, 2015), whose dissertation was entitled: The dispositions of adults with low levels of Schooling towards lifelong learning.Throughout her academic career, she has collaborated in the organisation and production of international events (ESHMS 17th biennial Conference (2018); Third International Conference of Young Urban Researchers (2018); ICSS XVIII - Lisbon (2019)); reviewing scientific articles for Revista Interações ... [more info]
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