María de Ibarrola

Professor and Researcher, Cinvestav 3E,
Department of Educational Research, Center for Research and Advanced Studies, Mexico

Bio and Research Interest

Born in Mexico City, she studied Sociology in the Faculty of Political Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Obtained a Master’s Degree in Sociology in the University of Montreal, P.Q. Canada, and a Doctor’s in Science degree (Educational Research) at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Mexico. 

She has been a National Researcher since 1984, in the highest Rank since 1993. Emeritus, since 2021.

Her career in Educational Research allowed her to work as an educational researcher in  three of the main educational Research centers in Mexico: Centro de Estudios Educativos A.C. (México), the first modern educational research center in the country,  and in the Commission for New Teaching Methods of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where she started and developed a line of research on curriculum design. She was also the founder of the Sociology of Education course at the Faculty of Social and Political Studies of the said University.

Since 1977, she has been a member of the academic staff of the Department of Educational Research of the Center for Research and Advances studies in Mexico, where she has led a line of research and graduate studies regarding the politics, the institutions and the actors in the relations between education and work and is in charge of the basic course of Educational problems and policies.  

From 1993 a 1998, by agreement between her institution, Cinvestav, and the National Union of Educational Workers, she was appointed General Director of the Union’s Foundation for the improvement of teachers’ culture and training.  There she promoted different lines of Research Continuous education and dissemination of teaching knowledge for Mexican basic education teachers.

From 1989 to 2003, she was member and later general coordinator of the Latin American network of education and work, founded by a very prestigious Argentinean sociologist, Dr. María Antonia Gallart.  

She was President of the Mexican Council of Educational Research 2006-2007  and member of the National Council of (16)  Experts in Education, created by the Minister of Education.(2006-2007)

She has been member of the experts’ council on technical and vocational Education of the Organization of Ibero American States, and advisor to UNESCO’s International Institute for the Planning of Education also in technical and vocational Education.

She has published some 50 research articles, 35 book chapters and twenty books on the different subject matter she has addressed. 

Most recent research ( still in press).

De Ibarrola M. (general coordinator)  El programa Jóvenes Construyendo el Futuro. La voz y la experiencia de sus actores. 2022-2024 (  The National Program Young people Building their Future. Voice and experience of the main actors).

De Ibarrola, M ( general coordinator) (2025) A new modality of upper middle education centered in employability and a decent job for young people 18-24 without upper middle schooling.

Recent Positions and honors

National researcher, (since 1984) highest rank, III ( since 1993), Emeritus, since 2021

Member of the National Committee for the Evaluation of National Researchers in the Humanities,  2005-2007;   2015-2017

President of the International Academy of Education, 2012-1015

PhD

Doctor en Ciencias en la especialidad de investigación educativa. Center for Research and Advanced Studies, Mexico, March 31st 1991.

Publications

Maria de Ibarrola and Denis C. Philips ( editors) ( 2014) Leaders in educational research. Intellectual self portraits by fellows of the International Academy of Education. SENSE Publishers, The Netherlands   ISBN 978-94-6209-762-9 (paperback)  ISBN 978-94-6209-763-6 ( Hardback)

María de Ibarrola and Lorin W.Anderson ( editors) ( 2014) The Nurturing of New Educational Researchers. Dialogues and Debates. SENSE Publishers. The Netherlands. 148pp.  ISBN : 978-94-6909-696-7 (Paperback) ISBN : 978-94-6209-697-4 (Hardback)

Traducido al español :  De Ibarrola, María y Lorin W. Anderson ( 2015) La formación de nuevos investigadores educativos. Diálogos y debates. México D.F. ANUIES, 240 páginas ( Colección Biblioteca de la Educación Superior). ISBN: 978-607-110-9 

de Ibarrola, María (coordinadora) (2018). Temas clave en la evaluación de la educación básica. Diálogos y debates. México, Fondo de Cultura Económica/ INEE, 328 p.ISBN: 978-608-8604-00-5 (INEE) ISBN: 978-607-16-5771-8 (FCE)

De Ibarrola, M. (2020). La formación de los jóvenes para el trabajo.  Las escuelas de tipo medio superior y otras alternativas RMIE, 2020. VOL. 25, NÚM. 84, PP. 13-28 (ISSN: 14056666 • ISSN-e 25942271). Coordinación general del volumen.

de  Ibarrola, María 2021 La reconversión de la educación: el futuro de las relaciones entre educación y trabajo. En Guevara Niebla, G. y Acosta, A. (2021) Educación: estrategias para la recuperación.  Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. Editorial Universidad de Guadalajara/ Centro de Estudios Estratégicos para el desarrollo. ISBN 978-607-571-295-6

Auli, Iván y de Ibarrola, M ( 2022). La formación para el trabajo en un bachillerato integral comunitario de Oaxaca, Análisis desde sus egresados. RLEE nueva época (méxico) 2022 volumen lii número 2 issn versión en línea: 2448-878x mayo-agosto páginas 53–92

Most cherished books: 

de Ibarrola, María.(1994) Escuela y trabajo en el sector agropecuario en México  Miguel Angel Porrúa/ Cinvestav/ Instituto Mora/ Flacso. México,
 de Ibarrola, María y Gallart, Ma. Antonia (et al.) (1994) Dirección académica coordinación y redacción. Democracia y productividad. Desafíos para una nueva educación media en América Latina. Red latinoamericana de Educación y Trabajo /OREALC-UNESCO. Porrúa/ Cinvestav/ Instituto Mora/ Flacso. México, 1994 394pp. 
de Ibarrola, María. (2006) Formación escolar para el trabajo. Montevideo. CINTERFOR, 2006. (Sobre Artes y Oficios, 5) 411 pp. ISBN: 92-9088-213-1. http://www.cinterfor.org.uy/public/spanish/region/ampro/cinterfor/publ/arte/ibarro/index.htm. Formación escolar para el trabajo: posibilidades y límites. Experiencias y enseñanzas del caso mexicano | OIT/Cinterfor 

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Maris A. Vinovskis
University of Michigan Bentley Professor of History, Institute for Social Science Research Professor, and Professor at the Gerald R. Ford of Public Policy.

Bio and Research Interest

Vinovskis was born in Riga, Latvia and is a naturalized citizen of the United States.  He was Deputy Staff Director to the U.S. House Select Committee on Population in the late 1970s and a frequent consultant on population and adolescent pregnancy issues in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in the early 1980s. He worked in the U.S. Department of Education in the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations on educational research and policy. He was a member of the congressionally-mandated Independent Review Panels for Goals 2000 and No Child Left Behind during both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. He also was a member of the Bush-Cheney Transition Education Advisory Committee.

Martin Benavides

Bio and Research Interests

Martin Benavides is Director of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP). Before joining IIEP, he served as Minister of Education of Peru in 2020. He oversaw the country's pre-primary, primary, secondary, and higher education systems and designed the national strategy for distance education in response to the pandemic. Between 2018 and 2020, he served as the head of Peru’s National Superintendence of Higher University Education (SUNEDU), the regulatory body of Peru's university system where he led the reform for improving the quality of higher education. He is Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (on leave) in the Department of Social Sciences. He is also Principal Investigator at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE, on leave), His research in education offered institutional perspectives on the expansion and quality of university education and reforms in basic education, but also on understanding persistent inequalities. He also contributed to Latin American literature on childhood and violence, and on inequality, ethnicity and social mobility. In 2006-2007, Martín was Research Director at GRADE, then he was its Executive Director from 2008 to 2014. He was visiting researcher at CEPED/Institut de Recherche pour le Développement – Université de Paris.in France and Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Martín holds a PhD in Sociology from Penn State University. 

Martin Carnoy

Bio and Research Interest

Professor Carnoy is the Vida Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of Economics at Stanford University, where he has served on the faculty since 1969.  He is a labor economist with a special interest in the political economy of the educational system.  He specializes in comparative analysis.  At Stanford he teaches courses in the economics of education in a global environment and resource allocation.

Michael W. Kirst

Bio and Research Interests

Professor Kirst directed the USA Australia Education Comparative Education Policy Project, and was a OECD Reviewer for the Hong Kong Education System. He chaired the USA National Academy of Science Board of International Comparative Studies  Of Education.

Miri Yemini 

Bio and Research Interests

Miri Yemini, PhD, is a Professor at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, renowned for her work in youth studies, global citizenship education and educational policy. With over 100 publications, Dr. Yemini's research spans diverse areas, including youth activism, democratic civic education, and recently the intersection of education and health. Her scholarly contributions have significantly advanced the understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing young people in contemporary society. Her current research focuses on conceptualizing youth health within the context of global crises, exploring how policies and lived experiences shape the well-being of young people in diverse cultural settings.

Beyond her academic achievements, Dr. Yemini is committed to translating research findings into actionable insights for policymakers and practitioners. She actively engages with stakeholders to inform evidence-based interventions and policies that promote equitable and supportive environments for youth development. She is a holder of European Research Council Consolidator Grant and a recipient of several excellence awards. 

Nancy Butler Songer

Bio and Research Interests

Nancy Butler Songer, Ph.D., is a Professor Emerita and recent Associate Provost of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education at the University of Utah. In these roles, Songer supports and studies innovative teaching and learning in STEM education from pre-K through university. With her research team, Songer focuses on designing educational innovations to promote critical thinking in science, environmental awareness, and greater interactivity and participation in science careers. Songer received a Presidential Faculty Fellowship from President Clinton and two Fulbright awards (Turkmenistan and Brazil). Songer was co-chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee authoring the report, Science and Engineering for Grades 6-12: Investigation and Design at the Center (National Research Council, 2019), and served on two additional National Academies of Sciences committees. Other awards include being named an American Association for the Advancement of Science Women in STEM Superhero and a Computerworld Smithsonian Award for early work exploring the Internet's educational value. 

Nicholas C. Burbules

Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor, Emeritus
Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Bio and Research Interest

Nicholas C. Burbules is the Gutgsell Professor Emeritus in the Department of Educational Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

His primary research areas are philosophy of education; teaching through dialogue; the ethics of communication; and technology issues in education.

Nonie K. Lesaux

Bio and Research Interests

Nonie K. Lesaux is the Dean of the Faculty and Roy E. Larsen Professor of Education and Human Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). 

A member of the HGSE faculty since 2003, Lesaux’s research focuses on strategies and innovations to improve learning opportunities and literacy outcomes for children and youth. Her teaching focuses on literacy development and reform, early learning, and leading system-level change.

Lesaux works with school districts to investigate language, reading, and social-emotional development; classroom quality and academic growth; and strategies to accelerate language and reading comprehension. With states and communities, she brings tools and concepts from improvement science to strengthen literacy plans and policy initiatives, grade-level reading campaigns, and birth-to-eight early learning initiatives. She is co-director of the Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative at HGSE, which addresses the pervasive global challenge of simultaneously scaling and improving the quality of early education.

Prof. Dr. Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia
Full Professor, Chair of Business and Economics Education, JGU Mainz

Bio and Research Interest

Professor Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia has been Chair of Business and Economics Education at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany, since 2006. She earned her doctoral degree from Humboldt University of Berlin in 2004 and her postdoctoral qualification in 2006. She has published widely on empirical educational research in vocational and higher education. She has directed numerous externally funded national and international research projects and has been coordinating the national research program ‘Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education (KoKoHs)’ since 2011. Her research has earned various awards and honors. She is a member of many national and international advisory and editorial boards and serves as an expert consultant to ministries, foundations, and international journals.