Senna lives in Rio de Janeiro, where was born, and attends as tenure staff professor at the Graduate Program of Education of Rio de Janeiro State University - UERJ, where holds high qualified researches and tuition for trainee researchers, under Masters and Doctors Degrees. Also at UERJ Faculty of Education, offers regular classes for Teachers Formation Courses in U-Grad courses and, at the Psychology Institute, for the Graduate Specialization Course in Psychopedagogy.
His academic activities are mostly concerned to Applied Linguistics to Letterment and Literacy, developing studies oriented, both, to basic approaches to the curricular design of literacy and mathematic-scientific education, as to the idealization of basic theoretic explanatory models for cognitive behavior under proximal development description.Para assegurar que sua contribuição para a formação de agentes de Educação Básica possa efetivamente conjugar o conhecimento acadêmico e o cotidiano da escola, Luiz Antonio atua como docente no Ensino Médio Nortuno do Colégio Brigadeiro Newton Braga (Unidade Federal de Ensino Público, subordinada ao Comando da Aeronáutica), onde aplica e analisa o impacto de teorias cognitivas sobre o desenvolvimento do processo de letramento numa perspectiva interdisciplinar.
For assuring his contribution to teachers formation may effectively conjoin academic knowledge and school daily demands, L A G Senna still acts as a teacher at Brigadeiro Newton Braga School (public institution, belonging to Brazilian Air Force), where applies and analyses the impact of cognitive theories about literacy and letterment cognitive development under an interdisciplinary approach.
Aiming, at most, public school systems conformed to intercultural education, he has begun his career just after concluding basic teachers formation at Rio de Janeiro Institute of Education, as teacher for the first serials of Fundamental Basic School, in 1979. Since then, raised the inhabit of determining from real public schools the parameters of his academic productions, since u-grad course of Letters at UERJ, until Masters and Doctors Dgre. at PUC-Rio.
Today, more than ever, acts towards the rediscovery of the real sense of School, exhaustively defending the individual Wright of cultural diversity as a precondition for learning and for any attempt to citizenship development.