Vanessa Rojas Arangoitia
Senior Researcher
PhD in Sociology - Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
vrojas@grade.org.pe
Vanessa holds a PhD in Sociology from Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. She has a degree in Anthropology and a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Her work has focused on the anthropology of education and childhood, addressing issues of educational transitions, child welfare, educational quality and power relations. During 2012, she worked in the Early Education Department of the Ministry of Education of Peru as Coordinator of alternatives of education in early childhood.
Currently she is a Senior Researcher at GRADE and the Lead Researcher for the Qualitative Component of Young Lives in Peru.
Publications
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Chapter in BookEnsino médio, educação integral e tempo ampliado na América Latina: Vol. 2. Cenários e desafi os contemporâneos
Interrupción escolar en secundaria en el Perú: datos, evidencia y políticas
2025 Vanessa Rojas, Antonio Campos, Santiago Cueto, Alan Sanchez
Discontinuation of schooling by students in secondary education in Peru is a critical problem that impacts the development of young people and their future opportunities. Despite advances in educational coverage, structural challenges persist that unequally affect different groups of students. This paper examines trends in secondary school dropout, its main causes and the public policies […]
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Interrupción escolar y vulnerabilidad educativa en el Perú: Datos, estudios y recomendaciones para la educación básica en el Perú
2024 Vanessa Rojas, Antonio Campos, Santiago Cueto, Alan Sanchez
This report presents data, studies, and analyses related to the interruption of studies, commonly referred to in the literature as school dropout or early school leaving, whether temporary or permanent. Here, we use the term “school dropout (interruption of studies)” to refer to children and adolescents who are not enrolled in regular basic education (EBR, […]
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Interrupción escolar y vulnerabilidad educativa en el Perú
2024 Vanessa Rojas, Antonio Campos, Santiago Cueto, Alan Sanchez
This document presents an analysis of school interruption in Peru, highlighting both its multi-causal nature and its disproportionate impact on the students affected. This phenomenon is the result of factors that often arise beforehand in vulnerable populations, such as rural, indigenous and extremely poor populations. Factors such as low educational quality aggravate the interruption of […]
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JournalPerifèria: Revista de Recerca i Formació en Antropologia
Trayectorias educativas de jóvenes rurales y urbanos del Perú
2024 Vanessa Rojas, Silvia Carrasco
Based on fieldwork carried out in Peru as part of the Niños del Milenio – Young Lives project, which has been conducting a longitudinal comparative study with two cohorts of children since 2000 in four countries, we analyzed the educational trajectories of 22 adolescents living in poverty. We want to know how these young people -from […]
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The effects of the covid-19 pandemic on the subjective well-being of rural and urban young people in Peru
2024 Vanessa Rojas, Adriana Alván León
This report is a summary of a longer report published in Spanish and available on the Niños del Milenio website here. Niños del Milenio/Young Lives has followed children through to young adulthood in Peru, including understanding how their perceptions of their well-being have changed over time. Using qualitative data from 2 birth cohorts, aged 21- 22 […]
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Medición del desarrollo infantil en América Latina: construyendo una agenda regional
2016 Ariel Fiszbein, Gabriela Guerrero, Vanessa Rojas
Este documento fue escrito en base a las discusiones que tuvieron lugar en el Seminario sobre Medición del Desarrollo Infantil en Lima del 20 al 22 de septiembre de 2016, organizado por el Diálogo Interamericano, GRADE y el Banco Mundial, con el apoyo de CAF – Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina, la Fundación Baltazar […]
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Understanding children’s experiences of violence in Peru: evidence from Young Lives
2016 Gabriela Guerrero, Vanessa Rojas
This paper describes children’s experiences of violence at home in Peru, using a lifecourse approach. Violence against children at home tended to increase with age, as children took on more chores (especially in rural areas), and spent more time away from home (in some cases, in urban areas). The chances of being hit by parents […]
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Gendered trajectories through education, work and parenthood in Peru
2016 Gabriela Guerrero, Vanessa Rojas, Jimena Vargas
This paper explores young people’s inter-related transitions and pathways through schooling, work and parenthood, with a special focus on the way gender affects trajectories into adulthood among a sample of young people growing up in poverty. The authors report on the outcomes and trajectories of those members of the Older Cohort who participated in Young […]
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”Le va bien en la vida”. Percepciones de bienestar de un grupo de adolescentes del Perú
2013 Vanessa Rojas, Alexandra Cussianovich
Este documento de trabajo aborda el llamado bienestar subjetivo sobre la base de la propia perspectiva de los adolescentes a quienes se hace seguimiento en el estudio Niños del Milenio.
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Prefiero que me peguen con palo… las notas son sagradas Percepciones sobre disciplina y autoridad en una secundaria pública en el Perú
2011 Vanessa Rojas
Una aproximación a las opiniones y experiencias sobre la disciplina y el castigo en la vida escolar de un grupo de estudiantes entre los
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¿Educación para el desarrollo rural o para dejar de ser rural?: percepciones y proyectos de pobladores rurales andinos y amazónicos
Perú: el problema agrario en debate. Sepia XIII2010 Vanessa Rojas, Tamia Portugal
The research on which this article is based is the product of a broader qualitative study of the Young Lives project, which mainly addresses the issue of educational transitions to secondary school in four communities: two in urban areas and two in rural areas. for this research, the basic methodology used was the case study of children […]
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La gestión escolar en el marco de la autonomía: una mirada desde el cotidiano a cinco instituciones educativas estatales de Lima
Análisis de programas, procesos y resultados educativos en el Perú: contribuciones empíricas para el debate2008 Gisele Cuglievan, Vanessa Rojas
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Trayectorias educativas: Seguimiento de jóvenes peruanos en pandemia
2022 Vanessa Rojas, Gina Crivello, Adriana Alván
A partir de un seguimiento cualitativo a la cohorte menor de Niños del Milenio durante dos años consecutivos (2020 y 2021), exploramos las barreras para el acceso y la continuidad educativa, el rol determinante del Estado y las familias, y la percepción de que la educación superior virtual impartida durante la pandemia ha sido de […]
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Educación superior en pandemia: Una aproximación cualitativa desde Niños del Milenio
2021 Vanessa Rojas
When the national quarantine was set in March 2020, young people who were pursuing higher education were immersed in emergency virtual education. This document analyzes their perceptions of change, as well as the barriers they faced and the resources they had to continue studying. In addition, it describes how COVID-19 influenced the aspirations of young […]
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Estrategias de cuidado infantil en familias vulnerables peruanas: Evidencia cualitativa de Niños del Milenio
2021 Vanessa Rojas
El análisis de las percepciones de niños y niñas, y de las diversas situaciones que enfrentan familias urbanas y rurales que participan en el estudio cualitativo longitudinal Niños del Milenio (NdM), muestra que el cuidado infantil es una actividad familiar y femenina. Además, la precariedad económica en la que viven estos niños los expone a […]
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Experiencias de convivencia, matrimonio y maternidad/paternidad en adolescentes y jóvenes peruanos
2019 Vanessa Rojas, Bravo, Francis
Cohabitation before the age of 18 and during the first years of transition to adulthood in Peru is a reality that mainly affects women. Data from Young Lives indicate that, by the age of 19, 30 % of women were already cohabiting, while only 7 % of men were. The sub-study on which this policy […]
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”Cualquier cosa nos puede pasar”. Cuando la violencia marca el ciclo de vida de las niñas en el Perú
2019 Vanessa Rojas
This qualitative study aims to highlight the multiple and persistent forms of violence that Peruvian girls can experiment from childhood to adolescence, as well as the resources they have to respond to it. In addition, the purpose of this brief is to approach the complex relationship that exists between the individual, familiar and community spaces, as […]
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Comprendiendo la escuela desde su realidad cotidiana: estudio cualitativo en 5 escuelas estatales de Lima
2006 Gisele Cuglievan, Vanessa Rojas, Yolanda Rojo, Giovanna Moreano, Gustavo Cruz, Úrsula Asmad, Karim Boccio, Nérida Urcia, Rosario Gildemeister
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Projects
Media
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Navigating Through Life: Young Lives Study Peru
September 3, 2018 Education and learning
The qualitative approach of the Young Lives study in Peru has been able to capture the changes in the biographies of 51 children. Their voices allow understanding how they face realities, responsibilities, and risks during the time in their lives when school is the main component. Their experiences let researchers reflect on Sustainable Development Goal […]
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Stories about children. Oswaldo Molina writes about the 15 years of Young Lives Peru
June 23, 2018 Education and learning, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
What is it like to be a poor child in Peru? Oswaldo Molina, director of the Master’s in Economics at Universidad del Pacífico, writes in El Comercio about the findings of Young Lives Peru during 15 years of research. Although, in general terms, the study shows that the welfare of families has improved in these […]
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Niños en crecimiento
March 7, 2014 Education and learning
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“La disciplina en la escuela pública está muy ligada al castigo físico”
January 6, 2012 Health and nutrition
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Selected Publications
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Educational pathways: young Peruvians in the COVID-19 pandemic
2023 Vanessa Rojas, Gina Crivello, Adriana Alván
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