Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Chemical Education

The Center for Research on Redox Processes in Biomedicine (Redoxome) of the University of São Paulo, Institute of Chemistry (IQ-USP), one of the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers (RIDCs) with funding from FAPESP, the São Paulo Research Foundation, has opened a call for application for a postdoc position.
The project is linked to the Education and Diffusion Plan of this Center and aims to investigate how the Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) development of topics related to redox processes takes place in the context of the pre-service Chemistry teacher program. The data will be collected in a secondary school with the pre-service and teachers of the subproject.
The candidate must have experience with qualitative educational research, methodology of PCK maps, audiovisual records, knowledge of teachers and pedagogical content knowledge.
Interested candidates should send (i) updated CV, (ii) 2 letters of recommendation, (iii) letter justifying interest in the scholarship and training for the project with a brief report of their experience with the project's topic to Carmen Fernandez, e-mail: carmeniq.usp.br. Registrations until 03/29/2021.
The vacancy is open to Brazilians and foreigners. However, for the project it is necessary that the candidate has fluency in Portuguese because the data collection takes place in a Brazilian Secondary school. The selected will receive FAPESP Post-Doctoral Scholarship in the amount of R $ 7,373.10 per month and Technical Reserve equivalent to 10% of the annual scholarship amount to meet unforeseen expenses and directly related to the research activity.