JOSE ANTONIO
CARIDE GOMEZ

Doctor of Philosophy and Sciences of the Education (Pedagogy) for the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), with an extraordinary Doctorate award. Professor of Social Pedagogy in the Department of Pedagogy and Didactics in the Faculty of Sciences of the Education. Commissioner of the USC for the project "Citizenship Campus", that integrates the areas of Social and Juridical Sciences, Arts and Humanities. He heads the group of investigation "Social Pedagogy and Environmental Education" (SEPA-interea) and the network of groups of Investigation in Education and Formation for the Citizenship and the Knowledge Company (RINEF-CISOC). His lines of investigation and publications are Social Pedagogy, Community Development and Civic Initiative, Educational and Social Times, Social Education, Citizenship and Human Rights, Environmental Education, Culture of the Sustainability and Human development. From 2002 to 2013 he presided the Latin-American Society of Social Pedagogy (SIPS), of was a founding member. In 2004, was granted to him the “Order to the institutional merit” of the World Council for Curriculum and Instruction, distinction to which are added other academic and scientific recognitions. From 07/2018 to 03/2023 he has been the coordinator of the Education Sciences area at the State Research Agency of the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain.