Docente
André Freitas Santos

Resume

Lecture and Researcher at the Institute of Education of Lusofona University/ Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and Development under an individual FCT-CEEC grant. I earned my PhD in Education Sciences at the University of Porto, where I maintain research collaborative work at Centre for Research and Intervention in Education, with a thesis focused on the production of subjectivity in education as governing school cultures. My research interests cover Education and Training with Art Experiences and Digital Technologies, and Research Methodologies in Education. I have more than 30 scientific publications and over 50 participations in scientific events. I am a member of the Portuguese Society of Education Sciences and actively participate in research networks focused on teacher professionalism, school education, research methodologies, and in arts/digital education. Additionally, I serve as a full member in the COST Action CA21102 – Creative Technologies, Culture-Education. I have contributed significantly as an ad hoc reviewer and editorial board member for scientific journals and have been involved in scientific and organizing committees of scientific events. My research initiatives have consistently sought to imagine innovative approaches to education and school experiences. Notably, I am the Principal Investigator of the ongoing project 'Inclusive Digital Education: Reflective practices among stakeholders' (PE-CEIED-4/002/2024) and of the project 'Future-oriented Stories of Digital Schools’ Capital: imagining times, places and sociabilities of education' (2023.08557.CEECIND), funded by individual FCT grant, and researcher in the project 'EDU-LAB' (WG4: Hearing Young People's Voices, Qualitative Case Studies) funded by Horizon Europe (HORIZON-RIA 101177428). Between 2023-2024, I was Principal Investigator of the project ‘Enhancing Teachers' Literacy and Professional Development within Art Experience,’ funded by CIIE-FCT (UIDP/00167/2020), and a researcher in the project ‘Fifty Years of Teaching: Factors of Change and Intergenerational Dialogues,’ funded by FCT (PTDC/CED-EDG/1039/2021). In recent years, I participated as a researcher in the project ‘Research Methods in Advanced Studies in Education,’ funded by FCT (EXPL/CED-EDG/1130/2021), and in the project ‘Building Educational Bridges in the City,’ funded by the European Commission (2018-1-PT01-KA201-047392). Given my expertise, I have served as an external consultant and teacher trainer for the Portuguese Ministry of Education and have been honored with a ‘Promising Practices UNESCO’ Distinction.

Graus

• Licenciatura
  First Degree in Visual Arts / Art Teacher Education
• Mestrado
  Master in Education Sciences
• Doutoramento
  PhD in Education Sciences
• Diploma de especialização
  Curriculum Development in Art Education

Publicações

Journal article

• 2025-02-26, Teachers’ professional development within art experiences: Pedagogical narratives for hopeful educational futures, Professional Development in Education
• 2025, The Impact of the Teaching Performance Assessment on the Reconfiguration of the Profession: The Last 50 Years of Teachers between Fights and Achievements, Education Policy Analysis Archives
• 2025, Ethics in Research with Children: The Aporetics of Subalternity as Methodological Knowledge in Education, European Journal of Education
• 2025, Decision-making in Narrative Inquiry in Education: Ethical Gathering-transcription, Validation and Analysis of Lived Experiences, International Journal of Research & Method in Education
• 2024-10-09, Methodological Issues in Technology-mediated Qualitative Data Collection: A Mapping of Research Undertaken in Schools During the Covid-19 Pandemic, London Review of Education
• 2024-10-01, Research Methodology Courses in Advanced Studies in Education: Trends from the Portuguese Case, International Journal of Instruction
• 2024-08-30, Narrativas de Crianças entre Produções Literárias: Reverso da Subalternidade pela Experiência Educativa [Children's Narratives amid Literary Productions: The Reverse of Subalternity through Educational Experience], Periferia
• 2024-03-01, Teaching Research Methodologies in Education: Teachers’ Pedagogical Practices in Portugal, Open Education Studies
• 2023-06-08, Teaching Research Methods Courses in Education: Towards a Research-Based Culture, Social Sciences
• 2023-02-07, Teaching and Learning Research Methodologies in Education: A Systematic Literature Review, Education Sciences
• 2020-12-18, Reconceptualizing Expressive Arts Education in Portugal through a Biographical Narrative Approach, Education Sciences
• 2020, Perspectivas históricas de la formación docente para la expresión artística del cuerpo en los caminos educativos de tres profesoras primarias [Historical perspectives of teacher education for artistic expression of the body in educational pathways of three primary teachers]., Infancia, Educación y Aprendizaje
• 2020, Controversies of Expressive Arts Education in Portugal: Insights from Policies and Practices, Knowledge Cultures
• 2018-03-26, Cosmopolitização das problemáticas da avaliação escolar no sistema de ensino português e brasileiro, Criar Educação
• 2017, Orientation of body movement through education of expressions: Perceptions by teachers from Portugal [Orientação do movimento do corpo pela educação das expressões: Perceções de professores em Portugal], Movimento
• 2016-01-01, Construction of an aesthetic hypothesis: From individual to collective [Construção de uma hipótese estética: Do individual ao colectivo], Invisibilidades

Thesis / Dissertation

• 2022, PhD, Narratives of Body Artistic Expressivity as an Experience of School Signification [Narrativas de expressividade artística do corpo como experiência de significação da escola]
• 2016, Master, Artistic specificities of expressions' education in the conceptions of 1st CEB teacher [Especificidades da educação das expressões nas conceções de docentes do 1º CEB]

Book

• 2023, Designing Courses on Research Methods in Education: ReMASE Framework, João Filipe Matos; André Freitas; Ana Pedro; Carla Galego; Carolina Amado; Elsa Estrela; João Piedade; et al, CeIED - Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares em Educação e Desenvolvimento
• 2023, Designing Courses on Research Methods in Education: ReMASE Framework, 1, João Filipe Matos; Freitas, André; Ana Pedro; Carla Galego; Amado, Carolina; Elsa Estrela; Piedade, João; et al, Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares em Educação e Desenvolvimento
• 2018, Seminário Internacional EXPRESSA: Re-imaginar a Comunicação Científica em Educação ¿ Livro de Resumos [International Seminar "EXPRESSA": Re-imagining Scientific Communication in Education - Book of proceedings], Freitas, André; Figueiredo, Carla; Santos, Carolina; Pinto, Daniela; Manarte, Joana; Dotta, Leanete; Sampaio, Marta; et al

Book chapter

• 2023, Arquiteturas de Prática, A Profissão Docente em Tempos de Democracia: Fatores de Mudança, Universidade do Porto
• 2023, Arquiteturas de Prática [Institutional Frameworks for Educational Practices], A Profissão Docente em Tempos de Democracia: Fatores de Mudança [The Teaching Profession in Democracy: Drivers of Change], 1, 1, Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas da Universidade do Porto
• 2021, The body in human formation: Sound, colour and feeling in integral education [O corpo na formação humana: Som, cor e sentimento numa educação integral], Integral education: Paths for the construction of a public education as human formation [Educação integral: Caminhos para construção de uma educação pública como formação humana], 1, 1, Appris Editora
• 2021, O corpo na formação humana: som, cor e sentimento numa educação integral, Educação integral: Caminhos para construção de uma educação pública como formação humana, Appris Editora

Edited book

• 2023, 1, 1, Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas da Universidade do Porto
• 2023, 1, 1, Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas da Universidade do Porto
• 2018, 1, 1, Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas da Universidade do Porto
• 2017, 1, 1, Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas da Universidade do Porto
• 2016, 1, 1, Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas da Universidade do Porto

Book review

• Engaging in Narrative Inquiries with Children and Youth, by Jean Clandinin, Vera Caine, Sean Lessard and Janice Huber

Newspaper article

• 2025, Teacher’s Imaginations for Just Educational Futures, Reparative Futures of Education - Department of Education, University of Oxford
• 2024-07-20, Avaliar melhor em educação é pressupor a avaliação como processo formativo, de ação comunicativa ['Avaliar melhor' in education requires the assumption that evaluation is a formative process of communicative action], Observatório das Políticas de Educação e Formação
• 2024, Review highlights limited ethics discussion in recent education research, Methods News - National Centre for Research Methods

Report

• 2023-06, Estudo de avaliação do impacto do projeto manuais e tecnologias digitais da Região Autónoma da Madeira [Study on the impact of the digital textbooks and technologies in the Portuguese Autonomous Region of Madeira] (Vol. I), https://md.madeira.gov.pt/images/Estudos/Volume1_2023-11-24.pdf
• 2023-06, Estudo de avaliação do impacto do projeto manuais e tecnologias digitais da Região Autónoma da Madeira (Vol. I): Relatório, https://md.madeira.gov.pt/images/Estudos/Volume1_2023-11-24.pdf
• 2023, Project ReMASE - Research Methods in Advanced Studies in Education - Final report
• 2017, Evaluation of the educational program 'Porto de conhecimento': final report [Avaliação do programa educativo Porto de conhecimento: relatório final], https://hdl.handle.net/10216/146813

Working paper

• 2024-12-03, Digital Ethics - Methods Futures - National Centre for Research Methods
• 2024-12-03, Digital Ethics

Online resource

• 2025, Teacher’s Imaginations for Just Educational Futures - Reparative Futures of Education, Department of Education, University of Oxford, https://www.repair-ed.uk/klebers-imaginations-for-just-educational-futures/
• 2024, Methods Futures Briefing on Digital Ethics, https://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/id/eprint/4973/1/Method%20Futures%20Briefing_Digital%20Ethics.pdf
• 2023, Framework for Designing Courses on Research Methods in Education, https://research.ulusofona.pt/en/publications/designing-courses-on-research-methods-in-education-remase-framewo
• 2020-05, Recurso educativo - Imaginómetro: Máquinas para imaginar de dentro para fora [K-12 education resource - Imaginometer: Machines for imagining from the inside out], https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/project-result-content/bdc8654b-c6ab-4a8c-83a7-0575c7935ea5/LIVRO_BRIDGING_2021_LR.pdf

Website

• 2024-01, Portuguese Society of Education Sciences [Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências da Educação], http://spce.org.pt/
• 2022-01, Comunidade de Investigação Formação, Profissionalismo e Identidades Docentes [Research Community Education, Teacher Professional Development and Identity] - Lusofona University, Lusófona University, https://sites.google.com/view/profid/página-inicial
• 2016-01, Comunidade de Investigação Escola, Professores e Saberes Docentes [Research Community School, Teachers and Teaching Knowledge] - University of Porto, University of Porto, https://www.weebly.com/copin-epsai
• 2015, Observatório da Vida nas Escolas [Portuguese Observatory of Life in Schools] - University of Porto, University of Porto, http://obviept.weebly.com

Conference paper

• Corpo em movimento na educação básica [Body and movement in basic education], Encontro internacional de investigadores em educação
• 2018, Body movement’ expressions in basic education, I International Seminar Expressa: Re-imagining scientific communication in education
• 2018, (In)Visibilities of the expressive body movements in the first years of basic education: teachers and students perceptions and experiences, Arts Education Winter School
• 2017, Basic education with artistic body expression, II ENJIE-Encontro Nacional de Jovens Investigadores em Educação
• 2016, The communicative effect of lectures and communications in high school, Curriculum Studies: Policies, perspectives and practices

Conference abstract

• 2023-01, Valor pedagógico do ensino de metodologias de investigação em educação: contributos para a criação de espaços sociais de aprendizagem [Pedagogical value of teaching research methodologies in education: contributions towards the creation of social learning spaces], XXX Colóquio da AFIRSE Portugal “Espaços Educativos - Políticas, Atores e Aprendizagens
• 2023-01, Caraterísticas espácio-temporais das componentes curriculares em metodologias de investigação em educação nos programas doutorais em ciências da educação em Portugal: mapeando o cenário curricular nacional [Space-time characteristics of course syllabus in research methodologies in education in doctoral programs in education sciences in Portugal: mapping the Portuguese curricular scenario], XXX Colóquio da AFIRSE Portugal ¿spaços Educativos - Políticas, Atores e Aprendizagens
• 2022-09, Ensinar metodologias de investigação em educação numa sociedade intensiva em dados [Teaching research methodologies in education in a data-intensive society], XVI Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências da Educação – Educação e cidades. Tempos, espaços, atores e culturas
• 2022-07, Research Methods in Advanced Studies in Education: Trends and Pitfalls, 1st International Conference on Education and Training – thinking education in transition times
• 2022-07, Pedagogic culture of research in teacher education programs: revealing implications of research methodologies courses in research-teaching nexus., Porto III International Conference on Research in Education
• 2022-07, Conteúdo e forma artística como evento pedagógico na escola: experiências educativas de crianças e de adultos para a mudança de premissa [Artistic content and form as a pedagogical event at school: children's and adults' educational experiences towards the change of assumptions], I Congresso Internacional Escola, Identidades e Democracia | International Congress School, Identity and Democracy
• 2018-06, Movimentos expressivos do corpo na educação básica: início de um projeto [Body Artistic Expressivity in basic education: the beginning of a project], I Seminário Internacional Expressa: Re-imaginar a comunicação científica em educação
• 2018, Movimentos expressivos do corpo na educação básica: início de um projeto [Expressive movements of the body in basic education], I Seminário Internacional Expressa. Re-imaginar a comunicação científica em educação