Sylvia Schmelkes


Sylvia Schmelkes

Bio and Research Interest

Sociologist, Master in Educational 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 education, values education and intercultural education. She founded and was General Coordinator for Intercultural and Bilingual Education in the Education Ministry in Mexico. She chaired the governing board the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation of the OECD.  She received the Joan Amos Comenius Medal from the Check Republic and UNESCO for her contributions to education in 2008. She was head of the Research Institute for the Development of Education in Universidad Iberoamericana.  She chaired the governing board 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 present she is an Honorary Researcher in Universidad Iberoamericana and coordinator of the Chair on Educational Justice that carries her name.    

M.A.

Ibero-American University, Mexico City

Publications

Fierro, M. C. & Rojo, F. (2012).  An intercultural education for Mexico: Career and contributions of Sylvia Schmelkes.  Curriculum Inquiry, 42, 103-125.

Schmelkes, S. (2011). Adult education and indigenous peoples in Latin America.  International Review of Education, 57, 89-105.

Schmelkes, S. (2001). School autonomy and assessment in Mexico.  Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 31, 575-586.

Schmelkes, S. (1999). Policies against school failure in Mexico: An overview.  In L. Randall & J. B. Anderson (Eds.). Schooling for success: Preventing repetition and dropout in Latin American primary schools.  Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.

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