Biography
Dr Carme Martínez-Roca is Founder and Director of the Foundation Fem Pedagogia, an NPO aimed at generating learning opportunities for personal fulfilment, social equity and environmental sustainability. She is also an Associate Lecturer at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, where she received her doctorate degree for her thesis on Guidance, competence development and reduction of structural factors for employment. She lectures and is an expert on Educational Guidance. Dr Martínez-Roca has developed programs addressing personal, interpersonal, and structural barriers for academic and professional success in Copenhagen, Denmark Johannesburg, South Africa; and Barcelona, Spain. She has worked extensively with adult basic education centres, secondary education centres, municipalities, supra-municipal bodies, and international organisations such as UNESCO, PNUMA, and The Red Cross. Her recent publications in English are GPS to a better future: career guidance for social justice in Catalonia’s adult learning centres (2019), Career guidance for emancipation. Reclaiming justice for the multitude (2017), and the chapter "Guidance in Catalan Secondary Education" in Career Guidance and Livelihood Planning across the Mediterranean. Challenging Transitions in South Europe and the MENA Region (2017).