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)
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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…