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SUMMARY:Power and Politics: Insights from Mexico's Education Reforms
DESCRIPTION:13 November\, 15:00-16:00 GMT\nREGISTER HERE\nSpeaker: Sylvia S
 chmelkes\, Director of the Mexican National Institute of Educational Evalu
 ation\nThis session will be held ONLINE ONLY.\nJoin us for a conversation 
 with Sylvia Schmelkes\, whose talk will explore the politics of educationa
 l inequality in Latin America and recount the story of Mexico's short-live
 d educational evaluation institute\, examining its impact\, resistance fro
 m teachers\, and eventual dissolution.\nFirst\, Sylvia will present her re
 search project on equity in learning\, and will address the fact that educ
 ational policy in Latin America is not designed with equity in mind. This 
 is why there are enormous differences\, correlated with socioeconomic stat
 us\, geography\, ethnicity and other factors\, in access\, permanence and 
 learning. Her team’s research project is mapping what they know about th
 e causes of inequality in learning\, some of which have to do with the way
  policy is designed and implemented.\nThe second issue is the story of a s
 hort-lived autonomous institute dedicated to educational evaluation in Mex
 ico. This Institute had as its objectives the evaluation of the educationa
 l system (teachers\, students\, schools and policy)\, the coordination of 
 the National System of Educational Evaluation\, and the formulation of evi
 dence-based policy recommendations. The institute played an important role
  in developing the norms for teacher evaluation (for entry\, promotion and
  performance)\, which met with the resistance of teachers and their union.
  This resistance ultimately led to the dissolution of the Institute during
  the first semester of the previous administration\, with the reform of Ar
 ticle 3 of the Constitution\, thus fulfilling a campaign promise of the ne
 wly elected President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Sylvia will share her
  analysis of the reasons that explain the creation\, development and demis
 e of this Institute.\nSylvia Schmelkes is a Sociologist\, Master in Educat
 ional Research and Development\, both in Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico
  City. Educational researcher since 1970. She has published more than 400 
 articles\, chapters and books on the quality of education\, adult educatio
 n\, values education and intercultural education. She founded and was Gene
 ral Coordinator for Intercultural and Bilingual Education in the Education
  Ministry in Mexico. She chaired the governing board the Centre for Educat
 ional Research and Innovation of the OECD. She received the Joan Amos Come
 nius Medal from the Czech Republic and UNESCO for her contributions to edu
 cation in 2008. She was head of the Research Institute for the Development
  of Education in Universidad Iberoamericana. She chaired the governing boa
 rd of the now extinct National Institute for the Evaluation of Education. 
 She is an honorary fellow of UIL and has received three honorary PhDs. She
  served as Academic Vice President of Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico
  City. She served as co-chair of the International Expert Group on SDGs in
  Higher Education convened by UNESCO to write the report Knowledge Driven 
 Actions: Transforming Higher Education for Global Sustainability. At prese
 nt she is an Honorary Researcher in Universidad Iberoamericana and coordin
 ator of the Chair on Educational Justice that carries her name.\nOrganiser
 s: This seminar is organised by the Research for Equitable Access and Lear
 ning (REAL) Centre and the POLED network at the Faculty of Education\, Uni
 versity of Cambridge. The Politics of Education (POLED) network is a stude
 nt-led special interest group designed to foster critical discourse about 
 the politics of education amongst scholars\, practitioners and policy expe
 rts. It was set up to explore the role of political economy in addressing 
 the contemporary issues facing education in developing countries.\n&nbsp\;
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