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Carol da Silva

Professorial Lecturer
School of Education, Teaching and Health

  • Additional Positions at AU

    Affiliated Faculty, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies
  • Dr. Carol DeShano da Silva’s research is concerned with improving the educational and life opportunities of marginalized children. Her main areas of research are policy and practice in language and literacy and teacher education. She takes an explicitly comparative and international perspective and is especially interested in education in Latin America and Lusophone countries. Dr. da Silva has contributed to educational projects in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and with immigrant and refugee populations in the United States. She has consulted or worked on education projects for USAID, The World Bank, and Save the Children, and has conducted fieldwork in Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico and Mozambique.

  • Degrees

    Educational Policy, Leadership and Instructional Practice/International Education, Harvard University, Ed.D.

  • Languages Spoken:

    Portuguese (Advanced), Spanish (Intermediate)
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Teaching

  • Spring 2013

    • EDU-596 Selected Topics:Non-Recurring: Education in Latin America
    • Description

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Selected Publications

da Silva, C.D. (2012). “Reclutamiento de docentes: Orientaciones para el diseño de las políticas en América Latina.” Working Paper No. 62. Santiago, Chile: PREAL, http://www.preal.org/Archivos/Preal%20Publicaciones/PREAL%20Documentos/PREALDOC62.pdf

 

da Silva, C.D., Huguley, J., Kakli, Z. & Rao, R. (Eds.). (2007). The Opportunity Gap: Achievement and Inequality in Education, Harvard Education Publishing Group: Cambridge, MA, http://www.hepg.org/hep/book/64/TheOpportunityGap

 

Reimers, F., da Silva, C.D., & Trevino, E. (2006). “Where is The ‘Education’ in Conditional Cash Transfers?”, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Montreal, QC, http://www.uis.unesco.org/TEMPLATE/pdf/EducGeneral/WP4_Reimers.pdf.

 

Grants and Sponsored Research

da Silva, C.D. and Shaklee, B. (2012). Global Education for Teachers Collaborative. Funding through The Longview Foundation, $31,880.