Invited Researchers
Eliana Bhering: Senior Researcher, Fundação Carlos Chagas, São Paulo, Brazil
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Dr. Eliana Bhering is a lecturer and researcher in Faculdade de Educação in the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and Fundação Carlos Chagas, Brazil, and has as main interests research on early childhood education specially in the field of assessment and evaluation of its policies and practices. She has been engaged in research onthose topics for the past 5 years, including projects that cover different regions in Brazil. She, together with colleagues, have translated ITERS-R and ECERS-R, american scales that assess the quality of early childhood education environments, into Brazilian Portuguese, using both scales in research projects and teachers training courses. In addition, Dr. Bhering has also worked, for the past four years, as a consultant for the early childhood education department in Rio de Janeiro, as well as a consultant for the Thallis Project in Thessaloníki, Greece, with a group of researchers from different greek universities, within the same topics of interests and instruments.