Organizing committee
Francisco A. Loiola
Francisco A. Loiola, is Full Professor at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Montreal, Department of Educational Psychology.
His main research interests revolve around the teaching activity in a university context and the development of professional development devices in the context of an enactiviste perspective. They relate to the disciplinary affiliation and pedagogical reasoning of the teacher; study of conceptions of teaching and learning; study and use of "best practices" in the pedagogical training of university teachers.
Founding member of LIRES - Interdisciplinary research laboratory on higher education. Head of GRIMTÉ - International and multidisciplinary research group on enactive theories. Since 2003, he has been responsible, at the University of Montreal, for a multidisciplinary seminar aimed at lecturers and graduate students wishing to prepare for university teaching. For several years now, he has been coordinating a collaborative and interdisciplinary mechanism for the professional development of future university professors. This educational device constitutes a learning community characterized by interdisciplinary collaboration between teachers and dedicated to the development of the teaching skills of trainees from different disciplinary fields.
Maria Grullon
Maria Grullon holds a master's degree in educational psychology on the topic of learning disabilities in college mathematics. She is a doctoral student in educational psychology at the faculty of Science Education at the University of Montreal. Her doctoral project focuses on the development and testing of an intervention model in mathematics aimed at universal intervention in secondary school from an enactive perspective.
Since 2012, she has actively participated in various research projects with interdisciplinary teams working on diversity, school inclusion, ICT in education and active pedagogies. For over a year, she has been a lecturer in the undergraduate qualification microprogram in teaching and coordinator of an artificial intelligence project to promote perseverance and supervision in higher education.
Letícia Renault
Letícia Renault holds a doctorate in psychology from UFF (Federal Fluminense University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), with a doctoral internship in the philosophy department of the University of Liège (Belgium).
She participated in the adaptation team for Brazil of the Guide for Autonomous Medication Management in Quebec mental health. She has internship experience in clinical psychology and public health. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (Portugal), at the NHUMEP (Center for Studies on Human Sciences, Migration and Peace).
Tamy Silvia Nakano
Holder of a bachelor's degree in educational sciences and a master's degree in public administration from the University of Buenos Aires, Tamy is interested in the governance of university research at the provincial and federal levels and the factors that favor coordination the production of scientific knowledge between universities and scientific organizations. Her master's thesis focused on evaluating the impact of vocational training in public administration institutions in Argentina. Her doctoral project focuses on the coordination of academic research, comparing Canadian and Argentinian federal contexts.
