Alexandre da Trindade, PhD, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge (CLAREC co-founder) This post was originally published at The Review of Democracy As universities face increasing neoliberal pressures, they must choose between passive complicity or transformative action. By embracing Paulo Freire’s concept of inédito viável—untested viability—and the framework of insurgent utopia, inspired by movements like theContinue reading “Insurgent Utopia: A Means for Transformation | The Review of Democracy”
Tag Archives: Higher Education
Alicia Garcia Montufar Miro Quesada
ag2420@cam.ac.uk | I am a Peruvian MPhil student in Education, Globalisation, and International Development at the University of Cambridge, with a Bachelor’s in Education and Learning Management from Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. My research has focused on emotional education within the Peruvian curriculum. My current research interests are gender inequality, policy, and social justiceContinue reading “Alicia Garcia Montufar Miro Quesada”
Rocío Fernández Ugalde
rociofernandezugalde@gmail.com | I am a Chilean researcher, PhD at Cambridge, interested in educational policies and critical studies in education. I graduated as an educational psychologist from the University of Chile where I collaborated in research projects related to teachers’ work ant their autonomy in different school settings. I have also participated in governmental teacher educationContinue reading “Rocío Fernández Ugalde”
Magali Ramos Jarrin
mpr44@cam.ac.uk | I am an Ecuadorian PhD student with a B.A in Integrated Social Sciences from Jacobs University and Msc. in Social Policy from LSE. Worked as Undersecretary for Teachers Professional Development at the Ministry of Education of Ecuador and collaborated with the World Bank, Inter American Development Bank and RISE Programme Grants.Awarded UNESCO GEMContinue reading “Magali Ramos Jarrin”
María Fernanda Rodríguez
mfr32@cam.ac.uk | I am a Peruvian sociologist with a master’s degree in Education, Globalisation, and International Development. After working in educational research and public policy in Peru for the past years, I am now starting a Ph.D. in Education at Cambridge. My work has focused on researching educational topics from a sociological perspective, especially inContinue reading “María Fernanda Rodríguez”
Jáfia Naftali Câmara
jn473@cam.ac.uk | I am a British Academy Research Fellow in Education at the Centre for Lebanese Studies and the University of Cambridge. My main research interests centre on education, migration, mobilities, internal displacement, the politics of education and the intersections between racism(s), class, border regimes and integration discourse and policy. Dr. Jáfia Naftali Câmara isContinue reading “Jáfia Naftali Câmara”
Anna Maria Del Fiorentino
amd218@cam.ac.uk | I’m a PhD candidate investigating women’s sense of belonging at elite universities, focusing on first-generation students at Brazil’s Unicamp and the UK’s Cambridge University, where these historically exclusionary spaces, in different contexts, have only recently seen record numbers of state-school and BAME students. Additionally, I explore generational inequalities and the impact of aContinue reading “Anna Maria Del Fiorentino”
Heidy M. Perez-Cordero
hmp54@cam.ac.uk | I am a Puerto Rican doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. My research project explores the formation of the professional identity of the Heritage Language Teachers. The exploration was conducted through a series of applied drama workshops. My interests include poetic inquiry, drama as method, identities, teacher’s wellbeing, decolonizingContinue reading “Heidy M. Perez-Cordero”
Alexandre Da Trindade
ad988@cam.ac.uk | Currently undertaking a CAPES Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Institute of Science and Technology “Educational Policy and Teaching Work” (INCT-GESTRADO) at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). PhD in Education from the University of Cambridge (2024), supervised by Professor Susan L. Robertson. The thesis, titled Utopian Thinking in Higher Education and ItsContinue reading “Alexandre Da Trindade”
Teacher Craft Knowledge in the Dominican Republic: A building-on-strengths approach to improving teaching and learning in the Hispanophone Caribbean
By Sophia M. D’Angelo A key objective of CLAREC’s mission is to forefront local knowledge from Latin America and the Caribbean. As someone committed to research on teacher effectiveness in the region, I am particularly interested in understanding the knowledge that teachers construct through their lived experiences. Research on teacher effectiveness often seeks to imposeContinue reading “Teacher Craft Knowledge in the Dominican Republic: A building-on-strengths approach to improving teaching and learning in the Hispanophone Caribbean”
Cambridge Latin American Research in Education Collective 