Dr. Cristiene da Silva Carvalho
Lecturer, Early Childhood
Dr Cristiene Carvalho is an Early Childhood and Primary Education lecturer at the Institute of Education, Arts, and Community at Federation University Australia. As an early-career researcher, she develops projects on rural education, social representations, critical pedagogies, social justice, and art education.
Cristiene completed her PhD in 2017 in the Education Department at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Her dissertation analysed the social representations of pedagogical and cultural practices developed by in-service teachers in rural areas committed to agrarian reform and equality.
Her previous roles as a researcher, lecturer, and coordinator of continuous education for rural teachers at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and the Federal University of Ouro Preto were crucial in shaping her teaching philosophy, emphasising social justice, inclusion, and diversity.
After moving to Australia in 2018, Cristiene engaged deeply with Australian frameworks for Early Childhood Education, working in the Early Childhood Sector while completing her bachelor's degree in early childhood teaching in 2024.
Currently, her research concentrates on inclusion and diversity practices in the Early Childhood sector and projects that apply Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy to rural education and physical education. She has presented her work at AARE and ATEA conferences, supervises placements in Early Childhood, and is actively involved in research groups such as SJIDE (Social Justice Inclusion, Diversity, and Education) at Federation University, GERES (Group of Research and Studies in Social Representations), and LeCampo (Research Group of Rural Education) in Brazil.
Cristiene’s main areas of expertise are critical pedagogies, early childhood, artistic practices, rural education, social justice, social representations, research methods and online education.
For more details and information, please see Dr Carvalho's staff profile: https://federation.edu.au/institutes-and-schools/ieac/staff-profiles/staf-profiles/dr-cristiene-a.-s.-carvalho
I discover my strength talking about my rural teacher journey Narrative interviews as a methodological approach in social justice research
"We had to fight to create schools! It is our right!": The Movement of struggling in rural Education in Brazil
Praticas artisticas no campo: A luta como categoria pedaggica para a transformacao social [Artistic practices in rural territory.: The resistance as a pedagogical category to transform society]
Social Representations in Motion: Concept Construction on Changing Subjects and Contexts
Social representations of artistic practices in rural schools
Praticas artisticas nas escolas do campo: uma forma de linguagem para ler e interpretar o mundo [Artistic practices in rural schools: a way of language to read and understand the world]
Representacoes Sociais das praticas artisticas na formacao e atuacao de professores do campo (Social representations of artistic practices in the teacher training and performance of rural teachers)
Praticas artsticas do campo (Rural artistic practices)
Representacoes sociais em movimento: uma analise de duas pesquisas no ambito da educacao do campo da FaE-UFMG [Social representations in movement: an analysis of two researches in the context of countryside education in FaE-UFMG]
Pesquisa em representacoes sociais no Brasil: cartografia dos grupos registrados no CNPq [(Research in social representations in Brazil: cartographic of the groups registered on CNPq]