Sueli Salles Fidalgo

Sueli Salles Fidalgo is a Professor at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). She holds a Doctoral Degree in Applied Linguistics and Language Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). Her major area of concern is teacher education focusing on those who work with children and adolescents who have been excluded from the school environment some whilst still attending schools. Most of these students have specific needs. Her dissertation thesis investigated the laws of inclusion in a country whose society and education have been excluding in practice, and that continues to educate teachers in fragmented, content-based curricular frames. In 2011, she finished a post-doctoral fellowship supported by a Brazilian Funding Body (FAPESP) in which she organized a study group with teachers from state schools, aiming at (1) studying special needs and (2) building pedagogical materials for the specific students they had in their classrooms. In terms of teaching-learning, her theoretical framework is of Socio-Cultural-Historical basis, especially focusing on notions such as mediation, conflict-collaboration-negotiation with a view to ressignifying practices. Methodologically, she works with the concept of collaborative research. She has published nationally and internationally (ANPOLL in Brazil; WAER in Chile and Cambridge Scholars Publishing in the UK). In 2011 and 2014, she was Visiting Professor at the Moscow Iscar University, and visiting professor representing Brazil at the III Inclusive Education Conference at the same university. In 2014, she was Brazilian representative at the executive committee of the International Society for Cultural Activity Research - ISCAR), as well as Brazilian ambassador for the ISCAR event in Austrália. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)