We should celebrate student effort and make it visible

João Pedro Aido interview José Pinto Lopes and Helena Santos Silva

Abstract

José Pinto Lopes has a PhD in psychology and is a professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), where he is responsible for the initial, continuous and postgraduate training of teachers and psychologists.
His research interests include learning, vocational training, assessment, learning communities, the importance of teacher-student / student-teacher feedback in students' performance, learning difficulties, collaborative classroom study, critical thinking and pedagogical classroom management, among others.
Helena Santo Silva, who is also a professor at the same university, has a PhD in Education, Teaching Biology and Geology, and his research interests include pedagogical supervision, cooperative learning, learning communities and formative assessment, among many others.
The common interest in cooperative learning, learning communities and collaborative work, for example, will probably have been decisive for them to build together a remarkable research work in these areas, but for which there has been no research and especially in action research, concept that seems to show more effectively the shared activity they have been developing and which translates into the joint publication of numerous books and articles in peer-reviewed journals, as well as book chapters, participation in congresses and conferences, and many communications over the years.