Alcides A. Monteiro

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information

• Alcides A. Monteiro
• Associate Professor with Aggregation at the Sociology Department of University of Beira Interior (UBI) - Portugal
• Universidade da Beira Interior, Departamento de Sociologia, 6201-001 Covilhã - Portugal
• Contacts - work: (+351) 275319700 / personal: 936345224/ E-Mail:
• alcidesmonteiro@yahoo.com / alcidesmonteiro@ubi.pt
• Webpages: https://ubi.academia.edu/AlcidesMonteiro / https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alcides_Monteiro2

 
Academic Degree

• PhD and Aggregation in Sociology, from UBI

 
Current Position

• Associate professor at the Sociology Department of University of Beira Interior (UBI), since 2002. Responsible for UC Exclusions and Inequalities, Project Design and Project Development (1st cycle in Sociology), Intervention Methodologies II: Project Management and Evaluation and Social Innovation Practices (2nd cycle in Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation)
• Director of the Master Degree Program in Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation at UBI.

 
Research Interests

• Main: Local and regional development.
• Others: action research, evaluation and participation methodologies, social economy, associations and volunteering, social entrepreneurship, gender studies, adult education and lifelong learning.

Research and Social Intervention Projects (Selection)

• 2019 - Member of the UBI team in the Project SPEED – Social Process Empowering Entrepreneurship Development, funded by Erasmus +.
• 2018-2019 - External Evaluator of the Project IgualAnima Alentejo - Equality is Development, promoted by ANIMAR network and funded by POISE / Portugal 2020.
• 2018: Member of the UBI team in the Laboratory of Ideas "Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship", managed and financed by the Union of Portuguese Misericórdias.
• 2017 – External Evaluator of the Project ANIMAR - Empower to Act in Networking, promoted by ANIMAR network and funded by POISE / Portugal 2020.
• 2016/2017 - Development of Structured Public Hearing initiatives under the project EIGEP / European Interaction Guidelines for Education Professionals when working with Children in Juvenile Justice Learning Contexts, funded by Erasmus +.
• 2016/2017 – External Consultant for the Participatory Budget of the Municipality of Manteigas, Portugal.
• 2014/2015 - Member of the Committee of Experts under the project DECIS - Building Training Strategies for Social Innovation, a project developed by Animar, Aliende, Ecogerminar and Seies, and funded by the EEA Grants and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Active Citizenship Programme).
• 2014/2015 - Member of the UBI Team in the Study Employability in Organizations of Social Economy - the role of active employment policies, conducted by EAPN Portugal under an agreement with the Portuguese Institute of Employment and Professional Training (IEFP).
• 2011/2013 - Scientific and pedagogical coordination of the Guarda Council Plan for Gender Equality in NGOs, funded by POPH, Typology 7.2.
• 2009/2011 - Expert invited by ANIMAR - Portuguese Association for Local Development, for collaboration in the project Project SK0097, "Education and employment support program of Handlová" Slovakia, supported by EEA financial mechanism and Norwegian financial mechanism
• 2000 / 2010 – External Consultant and Evaluator of the Adult and Lifelong Learning Courses (EFA), promoted by Fundação Solidários with the support form POEFDS and ANEFA / ANQ.

 
Publications (Selection)

• Monteiro, Alcides A. (2018) “Emancipação e o poder da aprendizagem” [Emancipation and the power of learning], in André Barata, Renato M. Carmo e Catarina Sales Oliveira (orgs.), Emancipação – O futuro de uma ideia política, Documenta, pp. 191-208
• Oliveira, Catarina Sales, Monteiro, Alcides A. & Ferreira, Sílvia Pinto (2018), “Gender consciousness through applied theatre”, RELA - European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, Pre-published 2018, pp. 1-16.
• Pinto, Ana Rosa e Monteiro, Alcides A. (2018), “As Redes Sociais de Apoio na Transição para a Parentalidade”, [Social Support Networks in the Transition to Parenthood], Sociologia On Line, nº 17, Outubro 2018, pp. 113-135.
• Carriço, Sandra e Monteiro, Alcides A. (2017), “Fundão Sénior, Território Maior: emigração, atratividade territorial e inovação social”[ Fundão Senior, Major Territory: emigration, territorial attractiveness and social innovation], in Proceedings of the 24th APDR Congress “Intellectual Capit al and Regional Development: New Landscapes and Challenges for Planning the Space”, Covilhã, APDR.
• Monteiro, Alcides A. (2017), “Empreendedorismo Social: fundamentos e dilemas de um movimento recente” [Social entrepreneurship: fundamentals and dilemmas of a recent movement], in Augusto, Nuno (org.), Sociedade em Debate, Ribeirão, Edições Húmus, pp. 45-69.
• Gomes, Isabel and Monteiro, Alcides A. (2016), “‘Why Choose One Hand Over the Other When We Can Use the Best of Two?’: Adult Educators’ Perspectives on Adult Education” in Rob Evans, Ewa Kurantowicz and Emilio Lucio-Villegas (Eds.), Researching and Transforming Adult Learning and Communities, Rotterdam / Boston / Taipei, Sense Publishers, pp. 105-118.
• Monteiro, Alcides A., & Montez, Mário M. (2015), “Sentidos de mobilização e de desmobilização da ação coletiva” [Directions of mobilization and demobilization of collective action], Opinião Pública, 21(1), 217-237.
• Monteiro, A.A., Ferreira, S., Oliveira, C.S. (2015), “Applied theatre, gender consciousness and transformative learning”, in Sabina J. Krasovec and Damijan Stefanc (eds.), Perspectives on Community Practices: Living and Learning in Community, Ljubljana, Ljubljana University Press, pp. 209-218 (digital edition – ISBN 978-961-237-752-6).
• Paiva, J., Pinto, L., Monteiro, A. and Augusto, N. (2015), Empregabilidade nas Organizações da Economia Social, o papel das políticas ativas de emprego [Employability in Organizations of Social Economy - the role of active employment policies], Porto, EAPN.
• EAPN and others (2015), Erradicar a Pobreza: Compromisso para uma Estratégia Nacional [Eradicating Poverty: Commitment to a National Strategy], Porto, EAPN.
• Monteiro, A. (2014), “The Active Role of Community-Based Organizations in the Local Redefinition of National Policies”, Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala, nº 46, pp. 203-215.
• Monteiro, A. (2011), “Autonomia e co-responsabilidade ou o lugar da Educação de Adultos na luta pela inclusão social” [Autonomy and co-responsibility or the place of Adult Education in the struggle for social inclusion], Revista Lusófona de Educação, 19 (19), pp. 67-83.
• Gomes, I. & Monteiro, A. (2011), “The landscape changes when we alter the perspective: envisaging new ways of looking at old problems through learning relationships with adults”, in A. Fragoso, E. Kurantowicz, & E. Lucio-Villegas, (eds), Between Global and Local – Adult Learning and Development, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, pp. 229-243.
• Monteiro, Alcides A., Gomes, Isabel P. e Herculano, Daniela P. (2010), “The reflective learning portfolio as a transformative tool for local development” in E. Lucio-Villegas (Ed.), Transforming/researching communities, El Masnou, diálogos.red, pp. 49-61.
• MONTEIRO, Alcides A. (2008), “Adult learning towards an autonomous and active citizenship: the example of an adult education and training plan based on a ‘pragmatics of responsibility’“, in António Fragoso, Ewa Kurantowicz and Emílio Lucio-Villegas (orgs) Local in Global – Adult Learning and Community Development, Wroclaw, Wydawnictwo Naukowe, pp. 144-156.
• Monteiro, Alcides A. (2008), “Les Initiatives de Développement Local au Portugal, entre la régulation et l’autonomie“, RECMA – Revue Internationale de l’Économie Sociale, nº 309, juillet 2008, pp. 64-75.
• Monteiro, Alcides A. e Ribeiro, Fernando Bessa (orgs.) (2008), Redes Sociais: Experiências, Políticas e Perspectivas [Social Networks: Experiences, Policies and Perspectives], Ribeirão, Edições Húmus.
• Monteiro, Alcides A. (2004), Associativismo e Novos Laços Sociais [Associativism and New Social Ties], Coimbra, Quarteto.