Professor João Formosinho

João Formosinho is President of the Childhood Association, promoting inter-cultural education in deprived city areas. He is Director of the Postgraduate Programme in Early Childhood Education at the Catholic University and President of the National Board for Accreditation of In-service Teacher Education in Portugal. He has published widely on educational policy, early childhood and teacher education and was awarded the honorific Portuguese National Order of Public Instruction in 2009.