Pedro Duarte Barbosa Gomes Pereira (Pedro Duarte) is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Education of the Polytechnic of Porto, where he develops pedagogical and research activity focused on three fundamental domains: curriculum development, educational policies and school administration, and democratic citizenship education. He completed his PhD in Education at the University of Santiago de Compostela (2021), with the thesis School as a space for citizenship construction: contributions of the curriculum to citizenship education in school context, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology. He subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Aveiro (2021-2024), deepening his research on Educational policies and school administration in Primary Education. His scientific output articulates themes such as curriculum and curriculum experiences, citizenship and democracy education, initial and continuing teacher education, teacher identity, school management and educational policies. In the field of citizenship education, he has explored emancipatory, heterodox, and philosophical perspectives, notably through Philosophy for Children and historical education. His studies integrate socioconstructivist approaches, action-research methodologies, collaborative work, and contextualized curriculum planning for Primary Education. He is an integrated researcher at inED – Centre for Research and Innovation in Education, and a collaborating researcher at CITCEM – Transdisciplinary Research Centre Culture, Space and Memory, both affiliated with the Polytechnic of Porto and the University of Porto. Within his academic and research activity, he accompanies the work developed by the Manoel de Oliveira School Cluster, integrated in the TEIP programme (Priority Educational Intervention Territories).