Raquel Augusta Melilo Carrieri, pos-doutoranda do programa Cátedra Fundep Magda
Soares de Educação Básica.
Foto: Taniara Damascena – IEAT/UFMG

Educator Raquel Augusta Melilo Carrieri, a teacher in the basic education system, began her postdoctoral research project this month at the Fundep Magda Soares Chair in Basic Education at IEAT/UFMG.

She was welcomed at the IEAT headquarters by the chair coordinator, Professor Júlio Emílio Diniz, from the UFMG School of Education, and by the director of IEAT, Professor Patrícia Kauark Leite. For Raquel Carrieri, her career as an educator is the starting point for her academic career.

“I always begin my presentation by highlighting my work as an educator. I do not consider my research to be secondary, but rather, intertwined and provoked by my teaching activity and the desire to contribute to the construction of quality public education,” she states.

This connection between teaching practice and knowledge production guides her participation in the chair. According to Raquel, participating in the program simultaneously meets her personal desires and her academic expectations. “It is a rare opportunity to think about education in an environment open to dialogue, where different views come together to build fairer and more effective paths to guarantee the right to education,” she highlights.

This research project investigates the practical and original knowledge developed by teachers throughout their professional careers. The objective is to understand how this teaching knowledge is structured and manifested, in addition to proposing methodologies that value and improve it, contributing to the initial and continuing education of teachers.

Raquel Augusta Melilo Carrieri holds a degree in Geography, with a teaching degree and a bachelor’s degree from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2012 and 2013), a master’s degree in Technological Education from the Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais (2017) and a PhD in Geography from UFMG (2023). She currently works as a high school teacher and geography analyst at Colégio Santo Agostinho. She is the author of the collection for the Final Years of Elementary School (6th to 9th grade) by Editora Bernoulli, and has produced teaching materials for institutions such as Fundação Getulio Vargas, Editora Moderna and Editora Imaginie. She has also worked as a consultant in the development of curricular references. Her research focuses on graphic visualization and didactics in teaching Geography.