Professor Luciana Venâncio

Luciana Venâncio is a Professor at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), where she teaches in the Professional Master's Program in Physical Education (ProEF-UFC), and is also a Professor in the Graduate Program in Physical Education at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). She served as Coordinator of ProEF-UFC (2021–2023), led the Physical Education Pedagogical Residency Program (2018–2024), and currently coordinates the Institutional Program for Teaching Initiation Scholarships (PIBID, 2024–2026).
 

She holds a bachelor's degree in physical education from São Paulo State University (UNESP), a Specialisation in School Physical Education from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), a Master's in School Physical Education from UNESP, and a PhD in Education from UNESP. She was a FAPESP Doctoral Fellow (2010–2014) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Education at the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS) under the supervision of Professor Bernard Charlot.
 

Before joining higher education, Luciana taught Physical Education in public schools in São Paulo for nearly two decades (1998–2016). Her research focuses on school physical education, relationships to knowledge, participatory curriculum and pedagogical planning, teaching and learning processes, student knowledge, teacher education, supervised practicum, and anti-racist education. She is a member of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT), the Brazilian Black Researchers Association (ABPN), and the International Network on Relationships to Knowledge (RIRSA). She also leads the GEPEFERS Research Group (School Physical Education and Relationships to Knowledge).
 

Keynote Presentation

Can contemporary capitalism be sustainable? The intersections of sport within the lives and relationships to knowledge of Black women school physical education teacher-researchers.