Margarida Calado (Lisbon, 1947) completed her degree in History at the Faculty of Arts in Lisbon in 1973. From the academic year 1973/1974, she held teaching positions at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes. In 1996, she completed her Ph.D. in History at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She was a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts for more than 40 years, in the fields of Art History, Art Theory, and Art Education. She was also the coordinator of the Masters in Artistic Education (2004-2016) and the Masters in Teaching of Visual Arts (2008-2016), as well as the PhD in Artistic Education (2008-2016), until the date she retired. She is a Researcher at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, with many journal papers, oral communications, and book chapters published about Art Education and / or Art History Teaching. Currently she still lectures short courses of Art History at the National Society of Fine Arts of Portugal and conducts research projects. She supervised over 50 Masters dissertations and PhD theses throughout her career as Professor, of which we highlight the following doctoral theses: "Potencialities of relational public art in art/education: the cities practices as a classroom" (Francisco Herbert Rolim de Sousa, 2014); "The subjects of drawing and visual education within the public school system of Portugal, between 1836 and 1986: from alienation to immersion in reality" (Maria Clara Rodrigues Silva de Brito, 2015); "New paradigms, new practices? Didactics in the training of visual arts teachers" (Ana Isabel Tudela de Sousa, 2016); two of the first dissertations from the Masters in Arts Education of FBAUL: "A formação dos professores de artes visuais em Portugal" (Ana Isabel Tudela de Sousa, 2007) and "Public Art as an educational resource; contributions to a pedagogical approach to public art works" (Ricardo Jorge dos Reis Silva, 2007); one dissertation on the history of education through art in Portugal: "The Higher School of Education Through Art and the contribution of Dr. Arquímedes da Silva Santos", Carla Maria Moreira Candeias Meira, 2016; and the following dissertations from the Masters in Arts Education related to the theme of childhood: "Socio-cultural Similarities and Differences in the Creative Potential of primary school children" (Maria Carlota Pacheco de Carvalho Pimenta Ribeiro, 2019), "Education, art and heritage: A project in artistic and heritage education aimed at children from ages 4 to 12, developed at the Batalha Monastery and in artistic residency at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon" (Olga Rosa dos Remédios Rodrigues Souto, 2018), "Building identity and emancipation on artistic education: from inalienable identities to collective loyalties" (Maria da Assunção de Carvalho Afonso Cabrita Calé, 2018), "Proposal for the Educational Services of the Montijo Municipal Museum: children's books as a strategy for promoting Casa Mora" (Maria Julieta da Silva Almeida, 2017), "Children's books as a tool in artistic and heritage education: an editorial project on the artistic-historical heritage of Lisbon" (Cláudia Sofia Vinhas Ricardo, 2016), "Scientific drawing and drawing for childhood, two distinctive languages, one common base: contributing to the dissemination of scientific knowledge" (Catarina Soares de Albergaria França e Sousa, 2014).