João M. Paraskeva, born in Mozambique, is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. A former middle school and high school teacher in the southern Africa region, he was also the founding Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and of the Master’s and Doctoral Programs in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He was also Professor at the University of Minho Portugal; Honorary Fellow of the University of Wisconsin Madison; Visiting Professor at the University of La Coruna, Spain; Visiting Professor at Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil; Visiting Professor at the University of Florence, Italy; Visiting Professor at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; and Founder and Senior Editor of the journal Curriculum Sem Fronteiras. His latest books are Conflicts in Curriculum Theories. Challenging Hegemonic Epistemologies, 1st Edition (2011/2014); 2nd Edition (2022); Curriculum Epistemicides (2016) (AERA Distinguished Book Award, 2017) (National book award in South Korea by the South Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, South Korea, 2021); Towards a Just Curriculum Theory (2018); and Curriculum and the Generation of Utopia. Interrogating the Current State of Critical Curriculum Theory (2021). He received the Charles De Garmo Award 2022 from the Society of Professors of Education.
