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MATILDE PORTALES RAGA
PDI-Prof. Permanent Laboral Ppl
Knowledge area: VISUAL EXPRESSION TEACHING
Department: Didactics of Physical, Artistic and Music Education
Faculty of Teacher Training Department of Physical, Artistic and Musical Education Teaching Office 04-18 Lit(T)erart Research Group Institute of Creativity and Educational Innovations (IUCIE)
(9616) 25096
Biography

PhD in Fine Arts (UPV) with a thesis on the value of Design Management in the expression of the creative mind and its sociocultural transfer. Official Master's Degree in Cultural Management (UV/UPV) and Specialization Diploma in Culture, Reading and Children's and Young People's Literature (UV). She has given talks, workshops and courses on illustration, visual culture and creativity in academic environments, libraries, schools and other official bodies.

As a researcher, her main lines of work focus on the potential of Artistic Multiliteracies, Picturebook Studies, Literary Visual Criticism and the Dispositions of the Artistic Mind – identified by  Harvard University's Project Zero – within the formative environments of the 21st century. It is also worth noting the special interest in Nature, and the design of multimodal educational methodologies that explore new narrative frontiers from a perspective (a) Slow (Tishman, 2018, Clark, 2023), (b) Poetics (Petit, 2024) and (c) Embodied). She has directed several research projects funded by the Ministry of Education on creative thinking, non-fictional picturebooks, sound picturebooks and poetical book-based methodological approaches blendind Arts, Senses & Narration. She has recently conceptualized, with Sandra Bellver-Morant EMLA's educational framework (Embodied Multi-Liter-Artistic Education). Since 2006, she has collaborated with the Consell Català del LLibre Infantil i Juvenil (CCLIJ/IBBY_cat) as a literary critic for the magazine Faristol. She is a member of the International Research Society for Children's Literature, and belongs to the Lit(T)erart Research Group (GIUV2019-464). Her research is also affiliated to the Institute of Creativity and Educational Innovations (IUCIE /UV). Moreover, she is a children’s book illustrator, having published with national and international publishers several albums on poetry, nature and emotions.

Subjects taught and teaching methods
Tutorials
01/09/2025 - 27/01/2026
MARTES de 09:00 a 12:00 DESPATX D.04.18 DESPATX D.04.18 FACULTAT DE MAGISTERI
28/01/2026 - 31/07/2026
MARTES de 09:00 a 12:00 DESPATX D.04.18 DESPATX D.04.18 FACULTAT DE MAGISTERI
Observations
Participate in the e-tutoring programme of the Universitat de València