Notes on Contributors
Robert F. Arnove
is Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington. He is an Honorary Fellow and Past President of the Comparative & International Society based on his distinguished contributions to the advancement of this interdisciplinary field. Over the last five decades, he has written extensively on education and sociopolitical change in Latin America, and, more generally, on the dynamics of globalization. Among his many publications excels Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local (with Carlos A. Torres & Stephen Franz, 4th ed., Roman & Littlefield Publishers, 2013).
Beatrice Ávalos
is professor and researcher at the University of Chile’s Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, charged with its teachers’ research strand. She earned a Ph.D. from Saint Louis University. In 2013 she was awarded the National Prize for Educational Sciences in Chile. She directed and published studies on the teaching profession, teacher education and education policies with a focus on less developed countries. Among her recent publications is Heroes o Villanos: La Profesión Docente en Chile (2013), and with P. Razquin on teacher education international policy in The Sage Handbook of Research on Teacher Education (edited by D. J. Clandinin & and J. Husu, Sage, 2017).
María Balarin
works as a Principal Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) in Peru, where she is also Director of Research. She holds a Ph.D. in Education Policy from the University of Bath, an M.A. in Psychoanalytic Theory from the University of Essex, and a B.A. in Philosophy from the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Perú. Her work, which has been published in academic books and journals, focuses on education policymaking and implementation, on the role of markets in education and their impact on educational segregation trends, and on the transitions to adulthood among young people living in marginal urban areas in developing countries.
Jorge Baxter
is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota, where his teaching and research focus on comparative education policy, communication for social change, and international development. He has a Ph.D. in international education policy from the University of Maryland. Jorge has worked for over 20 years in the education, health, arts, and media fields. He was the Latin American Director of Social Impact at Sesame Workshop from 2013–2016, an education specialist at the Organization of American States from 2002–2009 where he worked with Dr. Bradley Levinson of Indiana University to launch the Inter-American Journal on Education for Democracy.
Jason Beech
teaches Comparative Education and Sociology of Education at Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires. He is a researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina (CONICET), and Director of the Ph.D. in Education at Universidad de San Andrés. He holds a Ph.D. in Education from the Institute of Education, University of London, and has taught in several universities in the Americas, Europe, and Australia. He is interested in the globalization of knowledge and policies related to education and in exploring the link between cosmopolitanism and education.
Cristián Bellei
is a researcher at the Center for Advanced Research in Education and Professor of Sociology at the University of Chile. He obtained a master’s degree in educational policy and a doctorate in education from Harvard University. His research and publications refer to education policy, quality and school improvement, equity, segregation, and the education market. His most recent book is El gran experimento: mercado y privatización de la educación chilena [The great experiment: Market and privatization of Chilean education] (LOM Ediciones, 2016).
D. Brent Edwards Jr.
is an Assistant Professor of Theory and Methodology in the Study of Education at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Amsterdam, a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Central America, and a Post-doctoral researcher at The University of Tokyo. His work focuses on (a) the global governance of education and (b) education policy, politics and political economy, with a focus on low-income countries. He has two recent books: Global Education Policy, Impact Evaluations, and Alternatives: The Political Economy of Knowledge Production; and The Trajectory of Global Education Policy: Community-based Management in El Salvador and the Global Reform Agenda (both with Palgrave Macmillan).
Gilberto García Batista
is Professor Emeritus at the University of Pedagogical Sciences Enrique José Varona, and guest professor at the University of Holguin. He is Doctor of Sciences and Doctor of Biological Sciences. He presides the Association of Pedagogues of Cuba since 2013. His interests include teacher training, higher education, school hygiene and methodology of educational research. He directs the Section of Pedagogical Sciences in the National Commission of Scientific Degrees of the Republic of Cuba. He is also a member of the National Accreditation Board and was the national coordinator of the Master of Science in Education of broad access. He has more than 30 years of experience in education research.
Mark Ginsburg
retired in 2016 from FHI360. He is a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland (USA) and a visiting professor at the Universidad de Ciencias Pedagógicas (Cuba), and was a faculty member at other universities: Aston (England), Houston, Pittsburgh, and Columbia (USA) as well as a visiting professor at George Washington University (USA) and Kobe University (Japan). He was President of the Comparative and International Education Society (1991) and coeditor of Comparative Education Review (2003–2013) as well as President of the United Faculty of the University of Pittsburgh (affiliated to the American University of Professors and the American Federation of Teachers, 1992–2004).
René Guevara Ramírez
is a Professor of the Graduate Department at the National Pedagogical University (Colombia). He earned Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Autonomous Metropolitan University (Mexico). He also holds a master’s degree in University Management from the Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Sciences from the Francisco José de Caldas District University (Colombia). He coordinates the Politia-UPN Research Group. He is author of the book El campo político en universidades públicas latinoamericanas, and a number of articles on politics and higher education in Colombia.
Ana Ivenicki
is a Full Professor at the Department of Educational Studies at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She holds a Ph.D. in Education, from the University of Glasgow. She also is a Researcher 1A (top classification) for the Brazilian National Research Council (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico). She has been widely publishing in Brazil and abroad. Her research interests include multicultural and comparative education, international education, teacher education and evaluation of higher education in multicultural perspectives.
Aurora Loyo
labors as a senior researcher at the Social Sciences Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She earned a BA degree in Sociology from the UNAM and completed her graduate studies at La Sorbonne and El Colegio de México. Her main lines of research are educational policy and social actors, basic education, and teachers’ organizations in Mexico and Latin America. She has taught at the Graduate Division of UNAM and the Dr. José María Luis Mora Institute. Since 1989, she has reported uninterruptedly on the development of educational policy in Mexico. She has published books, book chapters, and articles in academic journals.
Gonzalo Muñoz Stuardo
is a professor of the Faculty of Education and Director of the Master’s in Leadership and Educational Management Program, at Diego Portales University. He earned an MA honors in Sociology and Master in Sociology at the Catholic University of Chile. He was Head of the General Education Division of the Ministry of Education of Chile, between 2014 and 2016. He previously worked as Director of Studies of the Center for Innovation in Education at Fundación Chile. In October 2012, he was appointed Board Member of the Quality Agency of Education. He has published books and articles in educational policies, school effectiveness and improvement, and educational leadership.
Carlos Ornelas
is professor of Education and Communications at the Metropolitan Autonomous University, in Mexico City and Honorary Fellow at Center for Regional Cooperation for Adult Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. He earned a Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University. The Fondo de Cultura Económica just published his most recent book, La contienda por la educación: globalización, neocorporativismo y democracia. His research interests include a comparative analysis of Mexican education and other countries. He has published widely on education reforms and the politics of education. He writes two columns per week in Excelsior, a Mexican national newspaper.
María Fernanda Rodríguez
has worked as a Research Assistant in the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), where she gained experience in the research on youth, education, and labor, in the evaluation of educational programs by the Ministry of Education and consultancies for the OCDE and UNESCO. She holds a bachelor’s degree in social sciences with a major in Sociology by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She specializes in qualitative methodologies, education, urban issues, politics and gender studies and currently works in the Ministry of Education of Perú.
Sandra Milena Téllez Rico
teaches at the Graduate Department at the National Pedagogical University (Colombia) where she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Pedagogy and her master’s degree in Education. She earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Autonomous Metropolitan University (Mexico). She is a member of the Politia-UPN Research Group. Author of chapters of books and articles on academic work and higher education in Colombia.
José Weinstein Cayela
is the Director of the Center for Development of School Leadership at Diego Portales University, where he is Full Professor. A sociologist from the University of Chile, with a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). He was Undersecretary of Education (2000–2003), and the first Minister of Culture (2003–2006) of Chile. He created and directed programs on school improvement and youth development. Important international organizations have requested his expertise. He has published over 60 articles in books, reviews, and journals focusing on education, poverty, youth, and culture. His recent work has significantly focused on school leadership development and capacity improvement of vulnerable schools.