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António de Sena Faria de Vasconcelos Azevedo (1880–1939) was a Portuguese educator and educationalist. Faria de Vasconcelos studied law in

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before going to study at the

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in 1902 . Like many Portuguese teachers in the first half of the twentieth century, he spent some time at the

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, where he was a student of

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.Faria de Vasconcelos, António de Sena · 1880 - 1939
/ref> He was headmaster of an experimental school at

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, though the school did not survive

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, and a professor at the New University of Brussels. He subsequently directed a training school for secondary school teachers which had been founded by

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in 1909. From 1918 to 1920 he taught a specialized course in

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for school doctors at the normal school at

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. He was later a professor at

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, where he founded the Institute of Careers Guidance (''Instituto de Orientação Profissional'') in 1925.

Works

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Lições de Pedologia e Pedagogia Experimental
'. Lisboa: Antiga Casa Bertrand, 1908. * ''Une école nouvelle en Belgique''. Préface de M. Adolphe Ferrière. Neuchâtel: Delachaux & Niestlé, 1915. − ''A New School in Belgium''. With an Introduction by Adolphe Ferrière. Translated from the French by Eden and Cedar Paul. London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1919. − ''Una escuela nueva en Bélgica''. Prefacio de Adolphe Ferrière. Traducción de Domingo Barnés. Madrid: Francisco Beltrán, 1920. −
Uma escola nova na Bélgica
'; pref. de Adolphe Ferrière; posf. e notas de Carlos Meireles-Coelho; trad. Carlos Meireles-Coelho, Ana Cotovio, Lúcia Ferreira. 1ª ed. Aveiro: Universidade de Aveiro, 2015. * ''The Place of the Idea of Death and its Moral Effects in Education'', Sucre, Bolivia: Porcel, 1918. Translated by Phyllis Blanchard.Reviews: ''The Journal of Genetic Psychology'', Vol. 26 (1919), p.202.

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