Carmela Chávez Irigoyen
Associated Researcher
PhD in Sociology - Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
cchavez@grade.org.pe
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Carmela Chávez Irigoyen holds a PhD in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where she also obtained a Degree in Sociology and a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences. She has a Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in Human Rights and a Master’s Degree in Fundamental Rights from the Carlos III University in Madrid. She has been a doctoral intern at the Center for Comparative Policy in Education at the Diego Portales University in Santiago, Chile, a visiting researcher at the Institute for the Studies for International Development at McGill University in Montreal and a visiting student at the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Duke University in Durham, United States. Carmela also received a scholarship from the United Nations University in Tokyo where she took courses on Universal System and International Cooperation at the Institute for Sustainability and Peace; and from the Ministry of Education and Research of the German Federal Government to participate in the Winter Academy “Inequality, Education and Social Power: transregional perspectives” held by the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Foundation at the Von Humbolt University in Berlin.
She worked as a Specialist in educational systems at the National Superintendence of University Higher Education (SUNEDU) between 2016 and 2023, and as a researcher at the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru between 2013 and 2015.
Currently, her lines of research in higher education revolve around the institutional reforms, educational policies, quality assurance, private eduction and educational trajectories with a gender approach. Her publications have focused on various issues in higher education, human rights, transitional justice and democratic governance.
She teaches courses in Sociology of Education and Research Methodology, and is an Associated Researcher at GRADE. She is a member of the Peruvian Society for Educational Research (SIEP).
Publications
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Género y educación superior: una mirada al sistema universitario desde las trayectorias estudiantiles
2023 Carmela Chávez
This study, which explores gender gaps in the Peruvian university system based on a detailed analysis of statistical information produced by the National Superintendence of Higher Education (SUNEDU) and the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), reveals new trends in the Peruvian university system in terms of gender, such as a prevalence of female […]
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Chapter in BookHacer políticas sociales. Estudios sobre experiencias de implementación y gestión en América Latina
Reforma universitaria y aseguramiento de la calidad de la educación superior en el Perú
2022 Carmela Chávez
The author presents the process of “university reform” in the Peruvian experience and delves into the creation of the National Superintendence of University Higher Education (SUNEDU). In particular, she discusses the institutional impact that this intervention had on the university system and on educational policy. The processes of institutional evaluation and supervision led to the […]
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Chapter in BookMiradas sobre la autonomía universitaria
El principio de autonomía universitaria y la apuesta por la calidad educativa. Retos para el caso peruano en el proceso de reforma universitaria
2022 Carmela Chávez
This reflection approaches the phenomenon of university autonomy in a context such as the Peruvian one, which has undergone an unprecedented process of university reform that has allowed not only the organization of the system in terms of supply but also the configuration of a state institutionality that aims to guarantee conditions of quality and […]
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JournalRevista Educación Superior y Sociedad
Brechas de género en la gobernanza universitaria y la carrera docente en el Perú
2021 Carmela Chávez, Esteban Penelas Ronso Merino
This article explores gender gaps in university governance, analyzing evidence on the distribution of positions by sex, both in senior management and academic leadership in Peruvian universities, as well as in the teaching staff. It is shown that there is little participation of women in university governing bodies, information that is analyzed according to the […]
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Masificación educativa y diversificación institucional. Discursos y diseños organizacionales en universidades privadas de bajo costo en el Perú
2021 Carmela Chávez
This research addresses the phenomenon of the low-cost private university (UPBC) in Peru, analyzing the institutional discourses of two case studies, as well as the educational narratives of its students. Two research questions are posed, the first of a descriptive nature that seeks to know how their educational actors are and from what paradigms they […]
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Género y educación superior: una mirada al sistema universitario desde las trayectorias estudiantiles
2023 Carmela Chávez
This study, which explores gender gaps in the Peruvian university system based on a detailed analysis of statistical information produced by the National Superintendence of Higher Education (SUNEDU) and the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), reveals new trends in the Peruvian university system in terms of gender, such as a prevalence of female […]
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Transformación institucional y movilidad en la universidad peruana: el caso de las universidades gerenciales en sectores emergentes
2015 Carmela Chávez
In the last 20 years, the greatest change in higher education institutions in Peru has been the emergence of the private university as a protagonist in the sector. Within the latter, the majority are low-cost business universities, for-profit universities whose promoters are the so-called new entrepreneurs of education (sometimes owners of other pre-schools, schools, technical […]
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JournalRevista Educación Superior y Sociedad
Brechas de género en la gobernanza universitaria y la carrera docente en el Perú
2021 Carmela Chávez, Esteban Penelas Ronso Merino
This article explores gender gaps in university governance, analyzing evidence on the distribution of positions by sex, both in senior management and academic leadership in Peruvian universities, as well as in the teaching staff. It is shown that there is little participation of women in university governing bodies, information that is analyzed according to the […]
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JournalCuaderno de Difusión
Políticas de seguridad alimentaria y protección de la agricultura familiar en la estrategia regional de seguridad alimentaria en la región Puno
2016 Renata Bregaglio, Carmela Chávez, Francisco Aguilar
This research seeks to analyze the elaboration process of the Regional Food Security Strategy (ERSA) of Puno, as well as its formal content, in order to contrast it with the Voluntary Guidelines. This analysis is highly relevant in the specific case of Puno, a highland region of Peru, which presents worrying indicators of food insecurity […]
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Reforma universitaria y aseguramiento de la calidad de la educación superior en el Perú
Hacer políticas sociales. Estudios sobre experiencias de implementación y gestión en América Latina2022 Carmela Chávez
The author presents the process of “university reform” in the Peruvian experience and delves into the creation of the National Superintendence of University Higher Education (SUNEDU). In particular, she discusses the institutional impact that this intervention had on the university system and on educational policy. The processes of institutional evaluation and supervision led to the […]
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El principio de autonomía universitaria y la apuesta por la calidad educativa. Retos para el caso peruano en el proceso de reforma universitaria
Miradas sobre la autonomía universitaria2022 Carmela Chávez
This reflection approaches the phenomenon of university autonomy in a context such as the Peruvian one, which has undergone an unprecedented process of university reform that has allowed not only the organization of the system in terms of supply but also the configuration of a state institutionality that aims to guarantee conditions of quality and […]
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Políticas de educación superior y procesos de internacionalización: el caso peruano a la luz de la reforma universitaria
Políticas públicas para la internacionalización de la educación superior en América Latina2020 Carmela Chávez, Santiago Torres Manrique
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Higher education systems and institutions, Peru
Encyclopedia of international higher education systems and institutions2017 Carmela Chávez
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El derecho a la alimentación en grupos en condición de vulnerabilidad
Derecho humano a la alimentación: entre la política pública y las decisiones judiciales2017 Renata Bregaglio, Carmela Chávez, Renato Caycho, Rosa Arévalo
This study analyzes national policies to guarantee the right to food of vulnerable groups in Peru. This is based on the Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security (hereinafter “Voluntary Guidelines”), and Inter-American standards on economic, social and cultural rights. The research […]
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Masificación educativa y diversificación institucional. Discursos y diseños organizacionales en universidades privadas de bajo costo en el Perú
2021 Carmela Chávez
This research addresses the phenomenon of the low-cost private university (UPBC) in Peru, analyzing the institutional discourses of two case studies, as well as the educational narratives of its students. Two research questions are posed, the first of a descriptive nature that seeks to know how their educational actors are and from what paradigms they […]
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Carmela Chávez discusses the results in creative thinking according to PISA 2022
June 26, 2024 Education and learning
“Improving learning processes is not a job that can fall exclusively on teachers, this development has to do with training processes both from the strengthening of the national curriculum, the investment of educational resources and above all the need to understand education as a process of training people”. Carmela Chávez, Associated Researcher at GRADE, shared […]
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Carmela Chávez discusses the results in creative thinking according to PISA 2022
June 26, 2024 Education and learning
“Improving learning processes is not a job that can fall exclusively on teachers, this development has to do with training processes both from the strengthening of the national curriculum, the investment of educational resources and above all the need to understand education as a process of training people”. Carmela Chávez, Associated Researcher at GRADE, shared […]
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