Professor: Vanessa F. A. Neves
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil). She is currently serving as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Education (2022–2026). She coordinates the research group Estudos em Cultura, Educação e Infância (Studies in Culture, Education, and Childhood – https://enlacei.com.br/). At present, she is leading a longitudinal and ethnographic research programme entitled Cultural Development in Collective Contexts, which aims to contrast the lived experiences of infants and young children across different early childhood education settings. This programme is grounded in the theoretical and methodological frameworks of Cultural-Historical Psychology and Ethnography in Education. It encompasses a range of research initiatives at undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels.

Main Publications
1. Neves, V. F. A., Silva, E. B. T., & Oliviera, V. S. (in press). A triangle of curiosity: infants, researchers, and the video camera. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2025.2514022
2. Neves, V. F. A., Silva, E. de B. T., & Oliveira, V. S. (2025). A triangle of curiosity: Infants, researchers, and the video camera. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2025.2514022
3. Neves, V. F. A., Katz, L., Silva, E. B. T., & Macário, A. P. M. (2023). Researchers’ subjectivities in a study of infants & toddlers. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 46(4), 390–407. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727X.2023.2167976
4. Neves, V. F. A., Quiñones, G., Gomes, M. de F. C., & Ribeiro, F. A. F. (2023). A cultural-historical perspective of young children gaining autonomy in the playground. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 32(3), 464–480. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2023.2262174
5. Gonçalves, J. da S., Silva, E. de B. T., & Neves, V. F. de A. (2023). “Not a box!”: transformations of the senses assigned to a cardboard box. Cadernos de Pesquisa, 53, e09934. https://doi.org/10.1590/198053149934_EN
6. Katz, L., Neves, V. F. A., Zurmehly, D., & Sanderson, M. (2020). Making visible acts of caring among infants & toddlers. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 16(3), 225–240. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554480X.2020.1763800
7. Neves, V. F. A., Katz, L., Goulart, M. I. M., & Gomes, M. de F. C. (2018). Dancing with the pacifiers: infant’s perizhivanya in a Brazilian early childhood education centre. Early Child Development and Care, 190(4), 558–569. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2018.1482891