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CIÊNCIA VITAE

Teresa Teixeira Lopo

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Teresa Teixeira Lopo is a researcher at CeiED, co-director (since 2022) of the Observatory for Education and Training Policies (partnership with CES - Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra) and an Assistant Professor at Lusófona University – University Center of Lisbon.

She is a sociologist, has a Master and a PhD (2021) in Education Sciences - Education, Society and Development from NOVA University of Lisbon. Her research portfolio covers education policies, comparative research, deliberation, discursive participation and political decision-making in education, and discourse analysis. Currently she leads the project “And After the Pandemic? Recovery, Continuities and Changes in Basic Education (ISCED 1) in Portugal”, co-leads “The Thought of Amílcar Cabral and Education” pilot project and participates in the work of the COST Research Network “Interdisciplinary Studies of Transhistorical Deliberative Democracy”.

At Lusófona University she teaches Curricular Units and Seminars in the Undergraduate Courses of Social Education (since 2021) and Sociology (since 2022) and in the PhD in Education (since 2022). She is also an Invited Adjunct Teacher at the School of Education of IPLUSO - the Polytechnic Institute of Lusofonia (since 2023).

She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Standing Group on Knowledge and Governance of  ECPR -  European Consortium for Political Research. She is an Expert on Quality Assessment of the National Erasmus+ Education and Training Agency (since 2021). She is an expert of the Unesco Inclusive Policy Lab and a member of the Network of Experts in Social aspects of Education and Training (since 2023). She is an adhoc reviewer for The International Journal of Qualitative Methods (since 2020) and for Education Policy Analysis Archives (since 2022).

She is an Elected Member of the University Council of the Lusófona University. She is an Elected Member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Education and Administration of the Lusófona University. She is also a Member of the Board and of the Scientific Council of CeiED.

Áreas de interesse académico e científico Areas of academic and scientific interest

  • Education policies
  • Comparative research
  • Deliberation, discursive participation and political decision-making in education
  • Discourse analysis

Publicações Selecionadas Selected Publications

  • Lopo, T. T., Teodoro, A., & Borges, L. (2024). Why did Portugal enter PISA? Divergent political views, the national agenda and the OECD push. European Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2023.2299940
  • Fluckiger, C., Bernardo, L. M., Bart, D., & Lopo, T. T. (2023). Recherche en éducation et discours institutionnels sur l'École : débats et approches critiques. Revista Lusófona de Educação, 59, 215-231. https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/rleducacao/article/view/8832
  • Teodoro, A., & Lopo, T. T. (2023). The OECD again: legitimization of a new vocationalism in the educational policies in Portugal (1979-1993). Paedagogica Historica, 59(5), 766-779. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2021.1941143
  • Carita, A., Lopo, T. T., & Teodoro, V. D. (2022). PISA in the media discourse: Prominence, tone, voices and meanings. In A. Teodoro (Ed.), Critical perspectives on PISA as a means of global governance. Risks, limitations, and humanistic alternatives. Routledge.
  • Lopo, T. T. (2021). The political decision on Portugal’s entry into PISA: A research note. Policy Futures in Education, 19(6), 723-729. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478210320971537