About me
Haira Gandolfi is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK. Her teaching and research interests involve Decolonial Curricula and Social Justice Pedagogies; Science Education and Socio-scientific Issues; Science & Technology Studies; School-based curriculum development; and Teachers’ Professional Development. She has been working with educators, teachers and their students in English schools and in Teacher Education programmes for the past nine years on decolonial and social justice-informed curriculum-making, especially in the areas of Science and Technology.
Prior to her time in England, Haira worked as a Chemistry teacher for 8 years in secondary and post-secondary/technical schools in Brazil. She holds a BSc in Chemistry, a BSc in Chemistry Teaching, and a MA in Science Education, all from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP)/Brazil, and a PhD in Education from the UCL Institute of Education/UK.
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