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
Um olhar sobre a experiencia de formacao no Programa Escola da Terra Minas Gerais- oferta 2014-2016 [The experience of the program Escola Terra Minas Gerais-oferta 2014-2016]
Autonomia, indignaao e esperana: O legado de Paulo Freire e Educaao do Campo (Autonomy, indignation and hope: The legacy of Paulo Freire and Rural Education)
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
A mistica como um elemento pedagogico e poltico no contexto da Educaao do Campo. (The practice of mistica in social movements as a pedagogical and political element in the scenario of rural education in Brazil)
As repercussoes da experiencia da mstica: Um projeto para os estudantes da Escola famlia agrcola Bontempo.(Repercutions of mstica experience: A project in the Family School in Alternance Bontempo)
Educar E Um Ato Poltico Educacao Do Campo E Seus Principios [Educating is a political act: Rural education and its principles]
Educar E Um Ato Poltico Educacao Do Campo, Pedagogia Da Alternancia E A Universidade [Education is a Political Act Rural Education, Pedagogy Of Alternation And The University]
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]
Tecendo reflexes sobre a educao do Campo como uma proposta poltica. (Reflections about rural education s a critical and political education in Brazil
24 e 25 de dezembro.(Reflections about the Paulo Freire Theorys in Pedagogy of Indignation in the days 24 and 25 of December)
Formacao, pratica e reinvencao da docencia (Teacher education, practical pedagogies and teachers practices reelaborations)
Escola da Terra: construcoes teorico/metodologicas na formacao continuada de educadores na perspectiva da Educacao do Campo. (Escola da Terra Project of teacher training: theorical and methodological reflections in the context of rural education in Brazil)
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)
Praticas Artsticas Na Formao De Educadores Do Campo - Um Estudo Na Perspectiva Das Representaes Sociais
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]
Praticas artisticas na formacao de professores do campo: Uma analise a partir das Representacoes Sociais [Artistic practices in the training of rural teachers - An analysis based on Social Representations]
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]