Cristiana Madureira has a bachelor degree in Education (Universidade do Minho). She has a master degree in Education: Educational Policies and Educational Sociology (Universidade do Minho). She also has a doctorate degree in Educational Sciences (Universidade do Vigo, enroled in Universidade do Minho. She is an expert in economics and Special Education.
Since 2000 she teaches in higher education. Now-a-days she teaches has an invited professor in Escola Superior de Educação e Ciências Sociais from Politécnico de Leiria.
From 2004 to 2013, she was a member of the board of directors in Escola Superior de Educação Jean Piaget Nordeste, vogal and vice-president (from 2004 to 2007) and director (from 2008 to 2013).
She started teaching aboard in 2012 at Universidade Jean Piaget in Mozambique and later in Universidade Católica also in Mozambique.
Cristiana Madureira has experience as Social-educational mediator in the group of schools Dr. Júlio Martins where she coordinated the Mediation Office, as well as the project Positive Parental and Interculturality in the field of Social Personal and Community Development Plan, by the National Programme of Scholar Success promotion. She also coordinated the The net of Schools to Intercultural Education in the group os schools at stake, following her participation as co-author in the application for the seal of Intercultural School that gave the group of schools the seal of “Intercultural School” . Her work in the project “The power of mediation between peers” also stands out in the category of civil formation that gave the distinction in the group os schools Dr. Júlio Martins as “Child Friendly Schools”.
In December 2020 as coordinator in the Office of Mediation she received honor by the Municípo de Sintra with the recognition of positive mediation project as being a good practice and an example to the other groups of schools in Portugal.
From 2019 to January 2022 she collaborated in the Centro Internacional de Ensino e Investigação Fernão de Magalhães where the she was pedagogic coordinator and researcher.
She is an integrated researcher in the Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar “Cultura, Espaço e Memória” from Universidade do Porto.
She is researcher ad hoc of articles in scientific magazines in her field of training and research. She also has participated in several jury panels of bachelor, masters and doctorate degrees to a national and international level. Cristiana Madureira is also author of several publications in the fields of research in Social Pedagogy, Social-educational Mediation, Intercultural Mediation, Positive Parental and Inclusion.
