Luiz Gonçalves Junior

Degree in Physical Education by the Paulista State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP-RC, Brazil), 1989; Master in Education by the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil), 1993; PhD in Social Sciences by the PUC-SP, 1998; Post-Doctor in Social Sciences by the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS/UL, Portugal), 2003. Full Professor of the Department of Physical Education and Human Motricity and Postgraduate Program in Education of the Federal University of São Carlos (DEFMH-PPGE/UFSCar, Brazil); Associate Editor of the Motricities Journal (ISSN 2594-6463); Founder, Researcher and current Scientific Director of the Society for Qualitative Research in Human Motricity (SPQMH); Founder of the Brazilian Association of Research and Postgraduate in Leisure Studies (ANPEL); Coordinator of the Nucleus of Studies of Phenomenology in Physical Education (NEFEF), the Nucleus of Decolonial Liberation Action and Abiayala Indigenous Studies (NALDEIA) and the Joel Martins Chair. Co-Curator of Manuel Sérgio's work at the Virtual Sports Center (CEV). Coordinator and Vice-Coordinator of the Physical Education Course; Chief and Vice-Chief of DEFMH; Acted as Guest Researcher at the Faculty of Human Motricity of the Instituto Piaget, Almada (FMH-IP, Portugal), between September 2002 and April 2003; at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports of the Universidad de Quindío, Armenia (FEFD-UniQuindío, Colombia), between October and November 2016; at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES-UC, Portugal), between March and August 2016 and between April and June 2022. Coordinate social project Experiences in Diversified Leisure Activities, since 1999, and Project for Environmental Education and Leisure (PEDAL), since 2011. Develops research in the lines "Social Practices and Educational Processes" and "Sociocultural Studies of Leisure", in interface with Environmental Education, Solidarity Economy, Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations and Musical Education, having articles presented and published in journals or congresses in Brazil, Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Finland, Mozambique, Paraguay, Portugal, Spain, United States of America and Venezuela. General coordinator of the international cooperation research project "Motricities of the South: Against the Waste of the Experience", which involves researchers and students from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mozambique, Portugal, Spain and Uruguay. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)