Letters to Paulo

Biographical notes

Tania Ramalho (Volume editor) Juha Suoranta (Volume editor) Shirley R. Steinberg (Volume editor)

Tania Ramalho, Professor of Education at SUNY Oswego. Ramalho’s career has been committed to a critical/feminist global perspective in education, with a teaching and research focus on Freire’s critical literacy and global critical pedagogy. Juha Suoranta is Professor of Adult Education at Tampere University, Finland. Suoranta’s research and teaching include qualitative methodologies, critical pedagogy, sociology of education, radical adult education, and public sociology. Shirley R. Steinberg is the former Research Chair of Leadership at the University of Calgary where she is now Professor of Education. She is the director of the Paulo and Nita Freire Project for Critical Pedagogy which she began at McGill University. An innovative social justice educator and theorist, Steinberg is committed to critical pedagogy, diversity, inclusion, equity, accommodation, and transformative curriculum.