Ph.D. from the Catholic University of Louvain. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Geneva and research stays at the London School of Economics and Political Science (1994); at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt (1997) with scholarships from DAAD/CAPES; and at Josai International University in Chiba (2000) and Sophia University in Tokyo (2005) with a scholarship from the Japan Foundation. He is an honorary member of the National Academy of Environmental Education in Mexico. He served as the coordinator of the Environmental Education Research Group at Anped and organized the “Symposium on the Fundamentals of Environmental Education” at the European Council of Social Research of Latin America (Brussels and Salamanca). He co-coordinated the “Other Ecologies” Working Group at Abrapso. He was the editor of the Journal of University Studies from 2007 to 2013. In 1998, he received the “Environmental Personality” award from the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) in São Carlos-SP. In 2005, he was honored by the Universidad Pedagógica Veracruzana in Mexico and in 2006 by the Olho d’Água de Proteção Ambiental Association in Promissão-SP. He was a visiting lecturer at Alice Salomon University in Berlin in 2015, 2016, and 2017. He is a professor in the Graduate Program in Education and the undergraduate Philosophy program at Uniso. He leads the School Everyday Life Research Group and is a scientific productivity fellow at CNPq (Pq-level 2). He was included in the Alper-Doger Scientific Index-2021 as one of the top 10,000 most influential researchers in Latin America.