[Brazil@Harvard] Presentation on Education in Brazil with Beatriz Cardoso - TODAY

Presentation on Brazilian Education with *Beatriz Cardoso*, founder and director of CEDAC, an organization that implements teacher professional development programs in Brazil. Date: Today - Monday, September 21 Time: 4 to 6pm Location: Askwith Lecture Hall (Longfellow Hall) For a map click here: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/about/campus/map.html Beatriz Cardoso An educator since 1978, Beatriz Cardoso received her Ph.D in Education from Universidade de São Paulo (USP) in 1997. She started her career as a Primary School Teacher and since then both her work and academic studies have focused in elementary education. She came back to USP in1990 as a lecturer at the Education College, where she worked for 10 years. Cardoso has also received an specialization diploma in ?Teaching languages in the Primary School? from Institut Municipal d?educació de Barcelona, in Spain. She has written several contributions to education journals and is co-author of three books that ponder about the way children are taught to read and write in school and about teacher training. She has been ahead of CEDAC (Centro de Educação e Documentação para Ação Comunitária), as president of this NGO which works for the quality of public Education in Brazil, for the last ten years. Attached is a paper describing some aspects of the work of CEDAC and below is a biography of Beatriz. Since we have a large auditorium for this presentation, feel free to invite others. http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.site63077.emailattachments/email_2009…