Curriculum Vitae
André Pombo
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- André Pombo
Citation names
- Pombo, André
- Pombo, A.
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 8C19-9722-D388
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-2364-834X
Email addresses
- apombo@eselx.ipl.pt (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Sport and Fitness Sciences
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
| Spanish; Castilian | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2017/12 - 2022/03/31
Concluded
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Motricidade Humana (Doutoramento)
Major in Comportamento Motor
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Portugal
"Motor Competence of Children: relationship with health and effects of the COVID-19 lockdown" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2013/01/25
Concluded
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Gestão do Desporto (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Portugal
"Identification with the Team and Perception of Value: Influence on the Purchase Decision Process" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2007/07/31
Concluded
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Reabilitação Cardiaca (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Portugal
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2001/10/15 - 2006/05/31
Concluded
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Educação Fisica e Desporto (Licenciatura)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
"Medical General Practice and Physical Exercise Prescription" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2025/09/01 - Current | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Portugal |
| 2022/09/19 - Current | Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) | Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
| 2023/09/01 - 2024/07/31 | Invited Associate Professor (University Teacher) | Instituto Piaget, Portugal |
| 2011/09/15 - 2022/07/31 | Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) | Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
| 2021/09/01 - 2022/06/30 | Invited Assistant (University Teacher) | Instituto Piaget, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2024/01 - Current | SMOOTH - Sociocultural iMpacts On mOTor beHavior
RG-6185-401659
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
SPRINT - Sports Physical Activity and Health Research & Inovation Center, Portugal
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Ongoing
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| 2024/03 - 2025/07 | INDUÇÃO - The beginning of a teaching career: Strategies for the induction of teachers in the 1st and 2nd cycles of basic
education.
ESELX/IPL/CIED/PICA/2023/A06
Researcher
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Ongoing
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| 2023/09 - 2024/07 | EQUISPACE: Stimulating Environments for Inclusive Education
P02-S09-27/04/2022IPDJ (N.º CP/0521/DDT/2023)
Researcher
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Ongoing
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| 2021/09/01 - 2022/05/31 | Assessment of Motor Competence in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders
ESELx/IPL-CIED/PICA/2021/A03
Researcher
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos Educacionais, Portugal
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Concluded
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| 2021/09/01 - 2022/05/31 | Inter-observer reliability and concurrent validity of the “Motor Competence Assessment” instrument for children aged 6 to
10 years
IPL/2021/MCA_VAL_ESELx
Researcher
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal
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| 2019/09/01 - 2020/06/30 | Motor competence as a marker of health in primary school children
IDI&CA-IPL/2019-CMSAU-CR.
Researcher
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal
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Outputs
Publications
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Other
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Activities
Supervision
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Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2024 - Current | The environment as a factor influencing play in kindergarten: a study on parents’ perceptions.
Co-supervisor
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Educação Pré-Escolar (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal
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| 2024 - Current | Play in Pre-School Education: adults’ conceptions of risk and danger as factors influencing their educational practice
Co-supervisor
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Educação Pré-Escolar (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal
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| 2022/06/25 - 2023/06/15 | Relationship between Mathematics and Physical Education
Co-supervisor
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Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal
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Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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| 2023/05/29 | The risk of (not) taking risks
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Alexandra da Luz Maio Bettencourt Alves (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal
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| 2022/07/04 | “Curricular integration between Physical Education and Mathematics and its influence on the learning process”
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Catarina Tomé Gomes (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal
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| 2022/06/03 | "The Effect of Confinement on Physical Fitness in Children aged 10 and 11"
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Mário Joel Cipriano (Master)
Instituto Piaget, Portugal
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Committee member
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Institution / Organization | |
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| 2025 - Current | Membro da Comissão Científica do 20º Seminário de Desenvolvimento Motor da Criança
Member
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| 2025 - Current | Membro da Comissão Científica do SPRINT International Congress, First Edition
Member
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| 2024 - Current | Membro da Comissão Científica do 19º Seminário de Desenvolvimento Motor da Criança
Member
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| 2023/09/01 - Current | Membro da Comissão Científica do 18º Seminário de Desenvolvimento Motor da Criança |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2025 - Current | Motor Development, Motor Control and Motor Learning Objectives: To understand the processes of Development, Motor Control and Motor Learning in their fundamental components, theoretical perspectives and methodologies. To be familiar with the main developmental trends in motor action, physical capacities and perceptual–motor development across the lifespan. To recognise the variability of development, motor control and learning processes, understanding the influence of key internal and external variables. To master a range of assessment techniques r | Ciências do Desporto (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Portugal |
| 2023 - Current | Education, Nutrition and Safety in Early Childhood Education Objectives: To expand future Early Childhood Educators’ knowledge, methodologies and competencies to develop healthy environments, habits and behaviours within the school community, making nurseries and kindergartens key contexts for health promotion. By the end of the unit, students should be able to: justify the importance of nutrition education in early childhood; apply theoretical knowledge of childhood nutrition to informed food selection; justify the importance of physical activity | Educação Pré-Escolar (Mestrado integrado) | Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
| 2022/09/01 - Current | ASC Intervention Project II Objectives: To develop skills for understanding and analysing sociocultural situations across different dimensions. To experience processes of cultural creation within the community. To reflect on the role of the sociocultural animator in community-based cultural creation processes. To reflect on ethical and deontological issues. To deepen ASC intervention through the project methodology in diverse contexts, particularly diagnosis and intervention stages (integrated planning within institutional projects). To mobilise me | Animação Sociocultural (Licenciatura) | Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
| 2022/09/01 - Current | Didactics of the Areas of Expression Objectives: To promote mastery of principles guiding Artistic Expression (AE) and Physical Education (PE) activities with children, and the ability to identify, interpret and apply content in formal and non-formal educational contexts. Specifically, to develop students’ ability to: frame AE and PE within Early Childhood Education and Primary Education, considering their specific contributions to child development and links to other curriculum areas; design and evaluate activities based on curricular integration | Educação Básica (Licenciatura) | Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
| 2016/09/01 - Current | Sports Animation Objectives: To master the basic concepts of sports animation. To identify, characterise and operationalise the most effective methodologies for promoting sports animation programmes. To design and organise sports animation programmes in different contexts and for different population groups. | Animação Sociocultural (Licenciatura) | Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
| 2016/09/01 - Current | Leisure Activities and Healthy Lifestyles Objectives: To provide students with knowledge of the effects of physical activity and its relationship with health. To characterise forms of intervention aimed at promoting regular physical activity and healthy lifestyles. To identify and characterise activities that influence healthy lifestyles across different population groups. To identify and characterise the most effective methodologies for health promotion through physical activity. | Animação Sociocultural (Licenciatura) | Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
| 2014/09/01 - Current | Physical Education I Objectives: To ensure the acquisition of basic training in physical culture, essential for students’ personal development and indispensable for appropriate professional intervention. By the end of this unit, students should be able to: understand the effects of Physical Activity (PA) on health in general and on the development of school-aged children in particular; understand models of motor development and relate them to the acquisition of Fundamental Motor Skills; understand the main characteristics of children’s play and its | Educação Básica (Licenciatura) | Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
| 2019/09/01 - 2025/06/30 | ASC Intervention Project III Objectives: To design, implement and evaluate intervention projects in ASC. To develop skills for professional integration in institutional and organisational contexts. To foster appropriate professional attitudes. To identify methodological principles of ASC work in diverse contexts. To discuss relevant themes and issues with active participation in debates. To collect, select and interpret relevant information in professional ASC intervention. To design an intervention project based on theoretically grounded and analy | Animação Sociocultural (Licenciatura) | Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
| 2019/09/01 - 2025/06/30 | Nutrition, Motor Skills and Child Safety Objectives: To develop knowledge, methodologies and competencies enabling future education professionals to create healthy environments, habits and behaviours within the school community, making school a key context for health promotion. By the end of the unit, students should be able to: justify the importance of nutrition education in childhood; apply theoretical knowledge of childhood nutrition to informed food selection and educational intervention; justify the role of physical activity in child developm | Educação Básica (Licenciatura) | Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
| 2022/09/01 - 2024/06/30 | Supervised Teaching Practice I Objectives: To understand the functioning of Primary Education schools (1st Cycle); to design, implement and evaluate curricular intervention projects; to analyse and reflect on teaching practice and the teacher’s role; to design and organise intellectual and practical tools for curriculum management; to implement methodologically sound pedagogical proposals; and to analyse and reflect on action. | Ensino do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e de Português e História e Geografia de Portugal no 2.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico (Mestrado integrado) | Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
| 2023 - 2024 | Arts and Physical Education Objectives: To analyse the role of different languages (Musical, Visual, Bodily and Theatrical) in understanding the world; to develop habits of appreciation and interpretation of artistic objects across languages; to reflect on personal creative processes in relation to future professional practice; and to critically reflect on education policy choices regarding arts and physical education and their place in curricula. | Ensino do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e de Português e História e Geografia de Portugal no 2.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico (Mestrado integrado) | Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
| 2023 - 2024 | Culture, Art and Inclusion Objectives: To discuss key concepts related to cultural, artistic and inclusion dimensions and their interconnections; to critically analyse community intervention methodologies used in reference projects; to analyse reports from nationally and internationally recognised community projects; and to design participatory community project proposals with a cultural and/or artistic focus, based on exploratory engagement with real contexts. | Educação Social e Intervenção Comunitária (Mestrado integrado) | Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
| 2023 - 2024 | Anatomophysiology II Objectives: To interpret, analyse and intervene in anatomophysiological phenomena related to human behaviour; to classify the functioning of major organs, systems and apparatuses; to explain factors and mechanisms underlying organic function; to apply knowledge of organic function from a systemic perspective; and to categorise fundamental physiological, anatomical and biochemical bases for understanding course content. | Educação Física e Desporto (Licenciatura) | Instituto Piaget, Portugal |
| 2021 - 2022 | Assessment and Prescription of Physical Fitness Objectives: To understand the effects of physical activity and its relationship with health; to characterise intervention approaches aimed at promoting regular physical activity; to identify activities influencing healthy lifestyles across different populations; and to identify effective methodologies for health promotion through physical activity. | Exercício e Saude (Mestrado) | Instituto Piaget, Portugal |
| 2019/09/01 - 2020/01/15 | Knowledge and Construction of Pre-Sport Games Objectives: To promote deeper training in physical culture by developing creativity and knowledge to modify games through task constraints. By the end of the unit, students should be able to manipulate different task constraints (equipment, space, time, interaction and rules) to create variations of a given game. | Educação Básica (Licenciatura) | Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
| 2015/09/01 - 2016/01/16 | Didactics of Physical Education Objectives: To promote mastery of principles guiding the organisation of Physical Education activities with children, and the ability to identify, interpret and apply content in formal and non-formal educational contexts. To frame PE within Early Childhood Education and Primary Education (1st Cycle), considering its specific contributions to child development and its relationship with other curriculum areas. To design and evaluate specific activities based on curricular integration and articulation, incorporating met | Educação Básica (Licenciatura) | Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
| 2011/09/01 - 2016/01/15 | Sports Management and Organisation Objectives: To acquire mastery of concepts and technical intervention skills related to the management, organisation, animation and development of sports practices. To develop competencies in the use of operational planning tools and their application in school, sports, recreation and leisure contexts. | Animação Sociocultural (Licenciatura) | Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
| 2013/09/01 - 2014/01/15 | Swimming Objectives: To provide supervised practice enabling students to experience multiple activities related to adaptation to the aquatic environment. To explore aquatic activities, emphasising their importance for child development. To experience practical situations related to different stages of aquatic adaptation and to develop basic skills in animating and leading groups of school-aged children. | Educação Básica (Licenciatura) | Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
| 2010/09/01 - 2011/01/15 | Leisure Activities and Sports Animation Objectives: To develop students’ ability to design and implement sports animation projects in different contexts and with diverse populations, and to ensure that future professionals acquire basic training in the field of physical culture, which is fundamental to their personal development and essential to their future sociocultural intervention. In the 2016/2017 academic year, this curricular unit was divided into two components: Sports Animation and Leisure Activities and Healthy Lifestyles. | Animação Sociocultural (Licenciatura) | Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
| 2010/09/01 - 2011/01/14 | Physical Education III Objectives: To promote deeper training in physical culture for future professionals, focusing on developing mastery of fundamental principles guiding physical and educational activity with children, and the ability to identify, interpret and apply specific Physical Education content in schools, in both formal and informal learning contexts. Physical Education at ESELx was restructured in the 2011/2012 academic year, and this unit was replaced by Physical Education II. | Educação Básica (Licenciatura) | Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |