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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Educação Física (FEF) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Graduated (Full Degree) in Physical Education - Methodist University of Piracicaba (1997), Master's in Physical Education - State University of Campinas (2000), Ph.D. - University of Lleida / National Institute of Physical Education of Catalonia (INEFC) in Spain (2004), and Associate Professor (Livre Docente) at FEF-UNICAMP (2016). Postdoctoral internship at the Faculty of Human Motricity (FMH) of the University of Lisbon (Portugal, 2010-2011), University of Manitoba (Canada, 2018), and Concordia University (Canada, 2023). Visiting professor at the University of A Coruña (Spain, 2011), National University of La Plata (Argentina, 2017), University of the Republic (Uruguay, 2022), and University of Freiburg (Germany, 2025). Acrobatics teacher at the Barcelona Circus School (Spain, 2001-05). DRT Circus Artist 0056352/SP. Associate Professor MS5.2 of the Department of Physical Education and Humanities (DEFH) at the Faculty of Physical Education at UNICAMP. Member of the Gymnastics for All Committee (GPT 2012-24), President of the Education Commission (2017-24), and Honorary Member of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG). Member of the Board of the Circus Research Platform (CARP) and Senior Researcher at HURP (National Circus School of Montreal - Canada). Research in the field of Performing Arts, Education, and Physical Education-Sports, with an emphasis on Circus and Gymnastics, focusing on the following topics: pedagogy and safety of circus activities; artistic gymnastics training culture; training in Gymnastics for All; elastic technologies and acrobat training. The research is mainly based on Motor Praxiology, Anthropology, Pedagogy, and Sociology. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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In contemporary society, the importance of physical activity and sport has been extensively addressed in academic and scientific circles, as well as by sports organisations and health agencies. Consequently, sports participation has become the subject of extensive research, as involvement in various physical activity programmes and sporting disciplines has come to be regarded as a social …
This project aims to study the pedagogical experience of art education developed in the Social Circus project held at the Instituto Entrando Em Cena (Bragança Paulista-SP), emphasizing on the participants' perspective on their own bodies. To do so, we invoke the notion of body and culture developed in the field of anthropology, more precisely in the work of the Frenchman David Le Breton, …
In the last three decades the teaching of circus activities in formal education (schools), especially at the elementary level, has revealed one of the main innovation of this discipline. As recent studies point out, this fact is seen in the international scenario and also a trend in Brazil. The interesting of educational professionals (pedagogy; arts and physical education) in circus art …
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