alessandra santana soares e barros

EDC - FACULDADE DE EDUCAÇÃO

Perfil Pessoal

Descrição pessoal

I am a Full Professor at a Public Governmental University in Brazil, called “Universidade Federal da Bahia – UFBA”. I am accredited with the Graduate Program in Education and with the Teaching, Philosophy and History of Sciences Program. I maintain a dynamic collaborative exchange with UFRB, UNEB and UEFS, in order to promote research in Special Education from an Inclusive perspective. During most part of my life, I've shared my professional career with the mothering responsibilities of 2 daughters and a son, which now have grown adults.

Formação acadêmica/profissional (Onde obteve os títulos, atuação profissional, etc.)

I have a background in Biology, a master's degree in Public Health and a PhD in Anthropology. At the beginning of my career, I worked for several years at a Brazilian public health institution for Rehabilitation, dealing with educational inclusion of children and young people with severe motor impairment due to Cerebral Palsy or congenital spinal cord injuries. After, I spent a decade at another brazilian hospital coordinating the School for young patients of the Pediatric ward, which assisted long term patients on the grounds of educational needs. For more than a decade I had been part of an international collaboration network, H.O.P.E – Hospital Organization for Pedagogues in Europe, during which time I shared my practical and theoretical expertise, giving conferences and lectures presented in several countries among Latin America and Europe. Alongside Fundação Oswaldo Cruz – FIOCRUZ, in Rio de Janeiro, together with their Post-Graduate Program in ‘History of Science and Health’, I have investigated the interpretations of the concept of “Eugenics” in the debate on abortion in cases of Congenital Zika Syndrome. Since then I’ve been accredited to a scientific group from FIOCRUZ Manguinhos, called “History of Genetics in Brazil and its impacts – race, racism and population.” For this reason, I am also a fellow at the Consortium of Studies on History of Evolution and Heredity in Brazil from which I research the role of Brazilian Down Syndrome assistance entities in the history of the constitution of Genetics as a scientific field in Brazil. During 2023 and 2024 I kept engaged to a French Academic Health Institution called CERMS3 - Centre de recherche, médecine, sciences, santé, santé mentale, société - as a visiting researcher, studying the relationship between prenatal diagnosis for birth defects and social attitudes toward persons with disabilities.

Áreas de Interesse (áreas de interesse de ensino e pesquisa)

I’ve been investigating through the fields of Disease & Social Sciences, as well as Disability Studies, dedicated especially to the themes of Social Representations on Birth Defects, Congenital Syndromes and child development. I’m interested too on the conceptual and historical links between Idiocy, Asylums and Mental Disability. I work basicaly with Qualitative methods, as those supported by Discourse Analysis or ethnographic descriptions, as well as Empirical researches laid on documentary material (textbooks, childrens books, advertisement, newspaper)to identify the ways Disability is culturally represented. Among my scientific productions, alone or in collaboration with pupils or colleagues, I highlight works on the Social History of Blindness in Brazil, Ethnographies on Sickle Cell Anemia and on Cerebral Palsy, as welland also Semantic Analysis on discourses about Down Syndrome and about Congenital Zika Syndrome.

Currículo Lattes:

http://lattes.cnpq.br/8756649706124962

Formação Acadêmica

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Contatos

Endereço profissional

Faculdade de Educação da UFBA. Avenida Reitor Miguel Calmon, FACED, sala GEINE- térreo. Vale do Canela. Salvador - BA CEP. 40.110-903

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Endereço eletrônico

alssb@ufba.br