Cindy Carvalho
psychologist in the education and development area
With a PhD in Education (branch of Supervision and Evaluation) from the University of Aveiro with funding from FCT, Cindy Carvalho began her academic career in the lntegrated Master’s degree in Psychology of Education, Development and Counseling at the University of Coimbra. Her main interests focus on the area of early childhood education, in particular, the processes of evaluation, planning and reflection about practice.
Over the last decade she taught several training courses aimed at professionals working in daycare and early childhood education.
Between 2017 and 2020 she worked as a Trainer for Childhood Education for the Portuguese NGO FEC in Guinea-Bissau, where she also worked as a professor at the Catholic University of Guinea-Bissau.
She is co-author of the book “Avaliação em Creche: CRECHEndo com qualidade” (Carvalho & Portugal, 2017, Porto Editora), and has also published articles, proceedings and reports. The two volumes of the report” Caracterização do Pré-escolar na Guiné-Bissau – Levantamento Nacional ” (FEC, 2019/2021), of which she was the main editor, stand out.
At ProChild CoLAB Cindy is involved since january 2022 in projects inserted in the Education and Development axis, especially the project Desenvolvimento e Educação em Creche.
as a child, i want to be a
l’ve always been fascinated by History, so I wanted to be an Archaeologist or Historian. Life took me down a different path, but I still love learning about History.
hobbies
Since my daghter is born, my free time has been running around activities with her… now, almost always whit company, 1 still love being in contact with Nature.
curiosity
Granddaughter of a German, daughter of a Belgian and a Portuguese and mother of a Guinean, diversity is a theme that not only interests me a lot but is in my own blood.