Doctor in Education

Mexican

Coordinator

Red Internacional de Docencia Universitaria Lasallista

• Initial and Continuous Teacher Training
• School Coexistence
• Processes of reflection and analysis of teaching practices.

She worked as a primary school teacher with children with cerebral palsy and has taught various subjects in education-related undergraduate and postgraduate programs, including those taught in teacher training colleges.

For two years, she served as the director of a child development center in Valle de Chalco, Estado de Mexico. She was involved in the project from its design, creation, and opening, and she served as the director in its first year of operation.

She worked as a researcher at the Center for Educational Studies for nine years, and since 1996, she has held the position of teacher-researcher at La Salle University, Mexico. In 2016, she was recognized as an Emeritus Researcher by the university. Throughout her years as a researcher, her main areas of focus have been teacher training for primary education, both initial and in-service, and school coexistence. For her research, she has conducted participant observations in schools located in various contexts across the country (rural, indigenous, marginalized urban, and urban), with different funding sources (public and private), and primarily at the preschool, primary, and secondary levels, as well as occasionally in higher secondary and tertiary education.

She has co-authored four books and has several chapters published in books related to teacher training, teacher evaluation, school coexistence, tutoring and mediation, and critical thinking. Many of these chapters are part of texts published by the IISUE-UNAM (Institute for Research in Higher Education at the National Autonomous University of Mexico). She has various articles published in peer-reviewed journals with impact factors.

She has participated in various academic and reviewing committees at La Salle University, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the National Pedagogical University, the Ibero-American University, the Ministry of Education, and the National Council for Science and Technology.

She has co-coordinated Area 8: Training Processes in the last six national educational research congresses organized by the Mexican Council for Educational Research (COMIE), along with Dr. Patricia Ducoing Watty. She was also part of the team that coordinated the last two knowledge state reports for the same area (decades 2002-2011 and 2012-2022).

She is a member of the National Researchers System (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores) at Level 1 in the education sub-area.