Mélanie Maximino-Pinheiro 

Mélanie Maximino-Pinheiro is a PhD Candidate at the Laboratory for the Psychology of Child Development and Education (CNRS, Université Paris Cité) and an affiliated member of the Laboratory for the Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (Sciences Po). Her research focuses on the relations between metacognition, academic achievement and educational inequalities. She is particularly interested in designing and evaluating the effects of interventions aiming at reducing educational inequalities from the earliest age. She is also involved in the professional development of education practitioners and is deeply committed to bridging the gap between the lab, classrooms, and public policies.

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Learning to learn in kindergarten

Ellis Stevelink and Mélanie Maximino-Pinheiro  / 21 October 2025

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Ellis Stevelink

Quality Coordinator at a primary school in the Netherlands 

Mélanie Maximino-Pinheiro 

PhD Candidate at the Laboratory for the Psychology of Child Development and Education, Université Paris Cité

Eddie Brummelman

Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam