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Margarida Marta is an Assistant Professor at the School of Education, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal, where she teaches Professional Practice and Methods and Techniques of Socio-Educational Intervention. She is also affiliated with the Center for Research and Intervention in Education (CIIE) at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto. Her academic work bridges teaching, research, and policy in early childhood education.
Her research interests include:
- Construction of professional identities of early childhood educators
- Initial teacher education and training of helping professionals
- Educational policies in early childhood
- Organizational dynamics in public and private early education sectors
- Use of digital technologies in preschool education
- Intergenerational dialogues in teaching careers
Her recent publications reflect a strong focus on teacher professionalism, heuristic play, pedagogical identity, and the impact of educational policies. She has contributed to literature on transformative education, supervised educational practices (including Pikler-inspired approaches), and curricular articulation across educational levels. Her work often emphasizes experiential and affective dimensions of learning.
Margarida Marta has participated in FCT-funded research projects such as 'Fifty Years of Teaching: Factors of Change and Intergenerational Dialogues' and 'Initial Training of Helping Professionals and Identities of Trainers'. She has co-organized scientific events and published in scholarly journals, books, and edited volumes.
She supervises master’s students in Early Years Teaching and Early Years and Primary School Teaching programs. Her work is embedded in collaborative research communities like IDEAFor (Identities, Democracy, School, Administration and Training) and involves interdisciplinary teams focused on educational transformation.
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