Visiting Scholars and Students
Samuel Mendonça
Samuel Mendonça
Full Professor, Education Postgraduate Program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas
Samuel MendonçaFull Professor, Education Postgraduate Program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas
Samuel Mendonça is a Full Professor of the Education Postgraduate Program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas. He is Productivity Fellow 1D of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, CNPq. He is the Main researcher of the CPTEn - São Paulo Center for Energy Transition Studies, Vice Coordinator of the REDPEEL - Red de Posgrados en Educación en Latinoamérica, and the Assistant Editor of the Labour and Human Development Law Journal. He is the Founder and President of the Latin American Philosophy of Education Association, ALFE (2011-2015) and was President of the Brazilian Philosophy of Education Society, SOFIE (2018-2022). Samuel is the author of Aristocratic Education in Nietzsche: Individual Achievement (Maryland: GlobalSouth, 2018).
Steven Zhao
Steven Zhao
Steven Zhao
Steven Zhao’s research largely focuses on questions around ‘meaning,’ particularly in relation to affordance theory, complex adaptive systems, and wide cognition (e.g., distributed, embodied, embedded, extended & enactive cognition). By employing an interdisciplinary approach, his dissertation examined ‘meaning’ as a potential conceptual ground to articulate the idiosyncrasies and normativity of human ‘adaptivity.’ At Teachers College, he will be working with Dr. David Hansen to examine the relationship between education and cultural polarization with specific attention to ‘hidden curricula’ and the history of education.