Luana Hallai
About the presentation:
The presentation discusses teacher education in dialogue with community-based practices through a case study of Comunidade Cultural Quilombaque, located in São Paulo, Brazil. It analyzes interviews conducted with a community educator and a teacher educator from the Regional Directorate of Education in the same territory, seeking to understand how teacher education experiences grounded in place and community can contribute to the development of a Decolonial Environmental Education capable of fostering more just and sustainable futures.
About Luana:
Luana Hallai is a biologist, educator, and master's student in Science Education at the University of São Paulo (USP). She works as a Pedagogical Analyst at Instituto Canoa, where she supports the professional development of science and mathematics teachers across a network of 28 higher education institutions in Brazil. She is also a co-founder of a community-based college preparatory program for high school students from disadvantaged backgrounds in her hometown. Currently, she is a Visiting Student Researcher at the Lemann Center at the Stanford Graduate School of Education.
Taianá Pinheiro
About the presentation:
This ongoing research project investigates approaches to School Financial Education in Brazilian and U.S. high schools, based on curriculum documents, instructional materials, and the perspectives of teachers working at this educational level. Taianá Pinheiro will present partial findings from her doctoral research, including analyses of curriculum documents from both countries and interviews conducted with Brazilian teachers. The presentation will discuss how these findings contribute to a deeper understanding of School Financial Education.
About Taianá:
Taianá Silva Pinheiro is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Program in Mathematics and Technological Education at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). She holds a Master’s degree from the State University of Santa Cruz (UESC) and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Bahia (IFBA – Eunápolis Campus). She is an Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Southern Bahia (UFSB), Sosígenes Costa Campus, in Porto Seguro. Her research interests include financial education, continuing teacher education, and supervised teaching internships. She is currently a Visiting Student Researcher at Stanford University, where she is conducting part of her doctoral research.
