Rate My Professor Ana Paula Santiago do Nascimento

Ana Paula Santiago do Nascimento is a professor at Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). She holds a bachelor's degree in Pedagogy (2004), a master's degree in Education (2012), and a doctorate in Education (2019), all from the Faculdade de Educação da Universidade de São Paulo (FEUSP). Her doctoral thesis examined the teaching career in public daycare centers across Brazilian capitals through analysis of magisterium plans and statutes. Her master's research focused on advances and setbacks in early childhood education provision in Brazil via a financial-budgetary analysis of resources allocated to this stage from 2001 to 2010.

Currently, she serves as a Professor of Basic, Technical, and Technological Education at UNIFESP, with roles at the Núcleo de Educação Infantil - Escola Paulistinha de Educação (NEI-Paulistinha) and in the Graduate Program in Education at the Unifesp-Guarulhos campus. She is a researcher affiliated with the Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisa sobre Infância, Educação da Infância e Formação de Professores (GEPIEIFOP) and the Grupo de Estudo e Pesquisa em Política Educacional e Gestão Escolar (GEPPEGE). Her work centers on the field of Education with an emphasis on Educational Policy, addressing topics including education financing, early childhood education, public policies in education, and teacher career plans and remuneration. She has contributed to numerous publications, including books, book chapters, and peer-reviewed articles on these subjects, such as analyses of daycare financing, institutional quality in university early childhood education settings, and teacher remuneration dynamics.