Professor Alexandre Anselmo Guilherme developed researches with professors from the university
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PUCRS’s School of Humanities professor Alexandre Anselmo Guilherme went to Belgium on a Work Mission at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), through the PrInt Program. On this opportunity, he met with Dutch and Belgian researchers and visited the Laboratory for Education and Society to discuss new trends and literature in the field of education at international level.
The PUCRS researcher is a specialist in studies about Austrian philosopher Martin Buber, having had his scientific productions internationally recognized by UNESCO and by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. More recently, the professor published Ilan-Gurve’ev and Education: Pedagogies of Transformation and Peace (London and New York: Routledge), based on this important Israeli education philosopher’s theory of education, which was nominated for the American Jewish Book Award, in 2019.
With these contributions, Alexandre Anselmo visited the Belgian University’s Laboratory for Education and Society, which, according to the professor, is considered by the academic community to be one of the most important European centers for Philosophy and Theory of Education, gathering important philosophers like Jan Masschelein, Maarten Simons, Stefan Ramaekers, Joris Vlieghe and Paul Smeyers.
During his work mission, the professor had work meetings and took part in a weekly seminar of the department with the presence of Dutch researchers, in addition to contributing to Joris Vlieghe’s study group discussions about Walter Benjamin and Violence.
The partnership between PUCRS and KU Leuven enabled the contribution of professors Joris Vlieghe and Stefan Ramaekers to books collaboratively published with the PUCRS researcher. In 2023, a Graduate student in Education will take her Sandwich Doctorate in the institution during six months, while professor Vlieghe has a three-month visit to PUCRS scheduled for 2024.
