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Raquel Teixeira
Governo do RS
Secretaria da Educação do RS
Professor Raquel Figueiredo Alessandri Teixeira is the State Secretary of
Education in Rio Grande do Sul since April of 2021. She was born in
Goiânia, Brazil, and has an extensive career in education.
She has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley
(USA), a Master's degree in Linguistics from the University of Brasília. She
specialized in Ethnolinguistics at the Federal University of Goiás and was
granted a postdoctoral degree in Language and Culture at the École des
Hautes Études, in Paris. She is a full professor (retired) at Federal University
of Goiás. She was Associate Professor at University of Brasília.
Other accomplishments include being a Counselor for the Consulting
Council of EduLa21- Ayrton Senna Institute; Founder-member of
Movimento Todos pela Educação (All for Education Movement, free
translation) and Member of the Academia Feminina de Letras e Artes de
Goiás (Goiás Feminine Academy of Arts and Letters, free translation).
In the last two decades, she was also State Secretary of Education, Culture
and Sports of the state Goiás ; State Secretary of Science and Technology of
Goiás, State Secretary of Education of Goiás and elected twice as a
representative at the National Congress.
She has published several articles and books. Raquel Teixeira was a member
of Editorial Boards, supervised doctoral theses and master's dissertations and
received several awards, including the Order Palmes Acadèmiques given by
the French Ministry of Education.
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