Postgraduate in Educational Psychology. Master’s degree in Education from the Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). PhD in Education from the Universidad de São Paulo (USP). Postdoctoral degree in Education from the University of Paris VIII (UP-VIII) and Federal University of Sergipe (UFS). Full Professor and Researcher of the Catholic University of Santos’s Graduate Program in Education, where she was coordinator (2004-2009) and vice-coordinator (2010, 2012-2017). CNPq Researcher with a PQ Level 2 Productivity Scholarship. Author of an extensive bibliographic production, more than 40 articles in journals and about 12 books. She advised students in 46 master’s degree dissertations and 5 doctoral degree theses.