Isabel Alçada
Maria Isabel Girão de Melo Veiga Vilar (Lisbon, 29 May 1950), better known by her pen name, Isabel Alçada, is a Portuguese teacher, writer, and politician. Alçada has also held a number of education-related government-appointed positions, including coordinator for the working group that would conceive the Portuguese school library network (1995–1996), and commissioner for the National Reading Plan (2006–2009). From 2009 to 2011 she was the Minister of Education in the XVIII Constitutional Government of Portugal.
Isabel Alçada
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- Name
- Isabel Alçada
- Born
- 29 May 1950
- Birthplace
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Education
- University of Lisbon, Boston University
- Full name
- Maria Isabel Girão de Melo.
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Maria Isabel Girão de Melo Veiga Vilar (Lisbon, 29 May 1950), better known by her pen name, Isabel Alçada, is a Portuguese teacher, writer, and politician. Alçada has also held a number of education-related government-appointed positions, including coordinator for the working group that would conceive the Portuguese school library network (1995–1996), and commissioner for the National Reading Plan (2006–2009). From 2009 to 2011 she was the Minister of Education in the XVIII Constitutional Government of Portugal.
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• Name — Isabel Alçada • Born — 29 May 1950 • Birthplace — Lisbon, Portugal • Language — Portuguese • Education — University of Lisbon, Boston University • Notable Works — Uma aventura series • Years Active — 1982–present
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Isabel Alçada was born in Lisbon on 29 May 1950. She attended Lycée français Charles Lepierre and took her bachelor's degree in philosophy at the University of Lisbon, later obtaining a master's degree in education sciences from the Boston University. In 1976, she decided to follow a career teaching Portuguese and History to 5th and 6th grade students (the 2nd cycle in the Portuguese basic education system); and in 1985, she joined the teaching staff of the Lisbon School of Education. She met Ana Maria Magalhães in 1976 at the Escola Básica Fernando Pessoa where they were both teachers. The two teachers formed a friendship and writing partnership, publishing their first book, Uma Aventura na Cidade, in 1982. This would be become the first book of the Uma aventura series which would go on to have dozens of books.
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- 1.17 January 2006.
- 2.18 April 2022.
- 3.Ministra da Educação. www.portugal.gov.pt.
- 4.Porto Editora. Isabel Alçada. Infopédia.
- 5.Puga, Rogério Miguel. Alçada, Isabel. E-Dicionário de Escrita de Viagens Portuguesa. CETAPS-Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Institute of Modern Languages Research-University of London, Laboratório de Interlocuções com a Ásia-University of São Paulo. 4 July 2020. ((78-972-99724-2-3)).
- 6.Isabel Alçada. Pato Lógico.
- 7.Ministra da Educação: Isabel Alçada. Expresso. 22 October 2009.
- 8.Porto Editora. Ana Maria Magalhães. Infopédia.
- 9.Puga, Rogério Miguel. Uma Aventura (colecção). E-Dicionário de Escrita de Viagens Portuguesa. CETAPS-Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Institute of Modern Languages Research-University of London, Laboratório de Interlocuções com a Ásia-University of São Paulo. 4 July 2020. ((78-972-99724-2-3)).
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