Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Portuguese Carnation Revolution, the project “FYT-ID – Fifty Years of Teaching: Factors of Change and Intergenerational Dialogues” (PTDC/CED-EDG/1039/2021) and the CIIE – Centre for Research and Intervention in Education at the University of Porto, invites the academic community, researchers, educators, teachers, and education professionals to participate in the conference Teachers’ Lives Today: Challenges and Transformations (NeTLives – New Teachers’ Lives), to be held from June 5 to 7, 2025, at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto.
Studies on the last fifty years of teaching are vital to understanding the dynamics that have shaped and continue to transform education locally and globally. This conference will explore the various change factors that have influenced the teaching and the teaching profession while addressing future challenges in a constantly developing context.
The conference welcomes original submissions in four languages – Portuguese, Spanish, French, and English – based on empirical studies, theoretical reviews, practical experiences, or innovative projects, engaged, specifically or broadly, with the following themes:

• Educational Policies, Rights and Social Change
• Curriculum, Teaching-Learning, and Assessment
• Pedagogies, Material Culture and Technologies
• Teacher Training
• Teacher Identities and Professionalisms
• Agency, Leadership and Professional Development
• Intergenerational Dialogues in the Teaching Profession
• Students, Schools, Communities, and Families
• Histories and Memories of the Teaching Profession
• Teachers’ Lives: Theories and Methodologies

More information is available at https://netlives.eventqualia.net/en/home/

Welcome to NeTLives!