Teresa Mendes – Comparatistas

Senior Lecturer

E-mail: teresa.mendes@ipportalegre.pt

Biographical note

PhD in Literary Studies – specialization in Comparative Literature (University of Lisbon) and professor at the Higher School of Education and Social Sciences (ESECS) of the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre (IPP), with experience in teaching in the areas of Portuguese Language and Literature, Literature for Children and Youth, Portuguese Didactics and Pedagogical Supervision, in the training of teachers and early childhood educators. She is the institutional coordinator of the Center of Languages and Cultures of the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, coordinator of the degree in Basic Education, sub-coordinator of the Graduate Program in Libraries and Promotion of Reading, and member of several statutory bodies at ESECS-IPP. She has developed research in the areas of Comparative Literature, Literature for Children and Youth, Education for Development, Didactics and Pedagogy, and she is author of several articles in national and international books and magazines and in international scientific meetings at these domains. She has also dynamised workshops in the areas of Literature for Children and Literary Education at the level of teacher education and childhood educators. She is an integrated member of the Interdisciplinary Coordination of Research and Innovation of the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre and also of the Center for Comparative Studies of the University of Lisbon.

Main areas of research

Literature for children and young people;
Comparative literature;
Education / teacher training;
Studies of memory and emotions;
Literary studies and interculturality.

Selected publications

Mendes, T. e Velosa, M. (2016). Literatura para a infância no jardim de infância: contributos para o desenvolvimento da criança em idade pré-escolar, Pro-prosições. Vol. 22. N.º 2. Campinas (Brasil), pp. 115-132. More info.
Ferreira, I., Marchão, A. Carvalho, L. & Mendes, T. (2016). A emergência de práticas educativas promotoras de educação para o desenvolvimento. In C. Mesquita, M. V. Pires & R. P. Lopes (Eds.), Livro de atas do 1.º encontro internacional de formação na docência, INCTE 2016. Bragança, Portugal: Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, pp. 227-235. (ISBN: 978-972-745-206-4). https://hdl.handle.net/10198/11435
Ferreira, I., Marchão, A., Carvalho, L . & Mendes, T. (2016). Educação para o Desenvolvimento no Ensino Superior: Investigar para Transformar. ACTAS DEL XV CONGRESO NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN COMPARADA-. Sevilha: Sociedad Española de Educación Comparada y Universidad Pablo de Olavide. ISBN: 978 – 84 – 608 – 9828 – 3
Carvalho, L. e Mendes, T. (2016). Práticas Promotoras da Igualdade de Género: para uma sociedade igualitária. ACTAS DEL XV CONGRESO NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN COMPARADA. Sevilha: Sociedad Española de Educación Comparada y Universidad de Pablo de Olavide. ISBN: 978 – 84 – 608 – 9828 – 3. More info.
Mendes, T. (2015). Literatura Infantil na Educação Pré-escolar: fruição, leitura literária e compreensão leitora. Revista Textura, v. 17- n.º 35, pp. 140-150 (Brasil), https://www.periodicos.ulbra.br/index.php/txra/article/view/1622
Mendes, T. (2013). A morte dos avós na literatura infantil: análise de álbuns ilustrados. In Educação & Realidade. Vol. 38. Nº 4. Porto Alegre: UFRGS, pp. 1113 – 1128. ISNN 0100-3143
Mendes, T. (2013). A retórica do silêncio na Literatura Portuguesa para Jovens. In Neves, B. et al (Org.). Reflexões em Torno das Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa para Crianças e Jovens – Actas. Col. Lusofonias. Lisboa: CLEPUL. https://www.lusosofia.net/textos/20130320-clepul_reflexoes_em_torno_das_literaturas_de_lingua_portuguesa.pdf
Mendes Mergulhão, T. (2012). Pelos caminhos do inefável: o percurso iniciático em A Maior Flor do Mundo, de José Saramago. In Araújo, R. e Oliveira, W. (coord.). Literatura InfantoJuvenil: diabruras, imaginação e deleite. Rio de Janeiro/Vila Velha: Editora Opção.11-23.

Aesthetics of Memory and Emotions / MORPHE