María Fernanda Rodríguez García
Adjunct Researcher
PhD Candidate in Education - Cambridge University
mrodriguez@grade.org.pe
María Fernanda is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE. She holds a Master’s degree in Education, Globalization & International Development from Cambridge University in United Kingdom and a degree in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She is currently a PhD candidate in Education at Cambridge University. Her areas of interest are the critical analysis of the political economy of education and educational policies, as well as their connections to power and political, cultural and social structures, focusing on privatization and educational reforms.
Publications
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JournalJournal of Education Policy
Resisting regulation: Revealing orders of worth behind the debate over private education regulation in Peru
Although the regulation of private education has been a disputed topic in academic and policy debates, there is a lack of recognition regarding the underlying structures that inform such opposing viewpoints. Through a sociological understanding of disputes, I propose to see through the lenses of the market to understand the contested visions at play in […]
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Chapter in BookResearch handbook on education privatization and marketization
The crisis and the market: regulating Peru’s ungoverned private education market
2025 Maria Balarin, María Fernanda Rodríguez
Since the mid-1990s, Peru has undergone a process of default educational privatization, with the private education market now accounting for more than a quarter of the country’s enrolments. Such growth has taken place in an extremely loose and disorganized regulatory context, resulting in an extremely heterogeneous private education market, both in terms of supply and […]
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JournalGlobal Social Challenges Journal
From experience to actions for justice: learners’ views on epistemic, environmental and transitional justice in Nepal, Peru and Uganda
2024 Robin Shields, Ainur Muratkyzy, Mohan Paudel, Ashik Singh, Expedito Nuwategeka, María Fernanda Rodríguez, Julia Paulson
Understanding how today’s children will act in the future is essential to education supporting sustainable development. This study investigated how students in three contexts in Nepal, Peru and Uganda understand environmental, epistemic and transitional justice. It used a tabletbased app to present students with scenarios that illustrates different attitudes, experiences and intended actions with respect […]
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JournalGlobal Social Challenges Journal
Shallow pedagogies as epistemic injustice: how uncritical forms of learning hinder education’s contribution to just and sustainable development
2024 Maria Balarin, María Fernanda Rodríguez
This paper draws on findings from the JustEd study to discuss the shallow pedagogies that have emerged in Peru in the context of learner-centred and outcomes-based reforms that have been poorly implemented in a context with many limitations in terms of policy orientations, resources, and teacher training and support. These pedagogies promote little to no […]
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Bringing peacebuilding to nexus thinking in education in emergencies: promising practices to overcome injustices
2023 Julia Paulson, Kelsey Shanks, Bassel Akar, Emraan Azad, Maria Balarin, Vasila Bozichaeva, Jennifer Emelife, María Fernanda Rodríguez
This synthesis report was commissioned by INEE, UNESCO and IFRC through the Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies (EiE Hub). These partners recognise that education in emergencies and protracted crises must be recognised as a cornerstone of humanitarian, peace and development action – not as secondary to sectoral responses – and that this requires action across […]
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Bringing peacebuilding to nexus thinking in education in emergencies: promising practices to overcome injustices
2023 Julia Paulson, Kelsey Shanks, Bassel Akar, Emraan Azad, Maria Balarin, Vasila Bozichaeva, Jennifer Emelife, María Fernanda Rodríguez
This synthesis report was commissioned by INEE, UNESCO and IFRC through the Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies (EiE Hub). These partners recognise that education in emergencies and protracted crises must be recognised as a cornerstone of humanitarian, peace and development action – not as secondary to sectoral responses – and that this requires action across […]
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JournalJournal of Education Policy
Resisting regulation: Revealing orders of worth behind the debate over private education regulation in Peru
Although the regulation of private education has been a disputed topic in academic and policy debates, there is a lack of recognition regarding the underlying structures that inform such opposing viewpoints. Through a sociological understanding of disputes, I propose to see through the lenses of the market to understand the contested visions at play in […]
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JournalGlobal Social Challenges Journal
From experience to actions for justice: learners’ views on epistemic, environmental and transitional justice in Nepal, Peru and Uganda
2024 Robin Shields, Ainur Muratkyzy, Mohan Paudel, Ashik Singh, Expedito Nuwategeka, María Fernanda Rodríguez, Julia Paulson
Understanding how today’s children will act in the future is essential to education supporting sustainable development. This study investigated how students in three contexts in Nepal, Peru and Uganda understand environmental, epistemic and transitional justice. It used a tabletbased app to present students with scenarios that illustrates different attitudes, experiences and intended actions with respect […]
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JournalGlobal Social Challenges Journal
Shallow pedagogies as epistemic injustice: how uncritical forms of learning hinder education’s contribution to just and sustainable development
2024 Maria Balarin, María Fernanda Rodríguez
This paper draws on findings from the JustEd study to discuss the shallow pedagogies that have emerged in Peru in the context of learner-centred and outcomes-based reforms that have been poorly implemented in a context with many limitations in terms of policy orientations, resources, and teacher training and support. These pedagogies promote little to no […]
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JournalRevista Peruana de Investigación Educativa
Moviéndose de una decepción a otra: los jóvenes que cambian de escuelas en contextos urbano-vulnerables de Lima Metropolitana
2020 María Fernanda Rodríguez, Mauricio Saavedra
The study analyses the phenomenon of student mobility in relation to the characteristics of the social and educational context of the city of Lima, Peru. The article recounts the educational trajectories of 18 young men and women from Carabayllo who experienced between 2 to 9 transfers during school. In this article, we focus on three […]
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JournalJournal of Youth Studies
Fractured lives: understanding urban youth vulnerability in Perú
2020 Lorena Alcazar, Maria Balarin, Cristina Glave, María Fernanda Rodríguez
The paper reports on a mixed methods study that sought to analyse determinants of youth labour market and educational disengagement in Peru. It begins by questioning the widespread focus on NEET –youth not in employment, education or training– as a measure of youth vulnerability in countries with extensive informal labour markets where labour precarity can […]
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The crisis and the market: regulating Peru’s ungoverned private education market
Research handbook on education privatization and marketization2025 Maria Balarin, María Fernanda Rodríguez
Since the mid-1990s, Peru has undergone a process of default educational privatization, with the private education market now accounting for more than a quarter of the country’s enrolments. Such growth has taken place in an extremely loose and disorganized regulatory context, resulting in an extremely heterogeneous private education market, both in terms of supply and […]
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Educación. Balance de investigación 2016-2021 y agenda de investigación 2021-2026
Balance de investigación 2016-2021 y agenda de investigación 2021-2026La investigación educativa en el país es clave para informar las políticas públicas y programas educativos, así como las posibilidades de transformación de la educación peruana. A diferencia del período 2011-2016, dos elementos han caracterizado el quinquenio 2016-2021: la crisis de gobernanza y la crisis sanitaria ocasionada por la COVID-19. Aun así, tal como se […]
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Educación privada de ‘bajo coste’ en el Perú: un enfoque desde la calidad
2018 Clara Fontdevila, Paola Marius, Maria Balarin, María Fernanda Rodríguez
This research aims to advance in the description and characterization of the so-called low-cost private schools in relation to different dimensions of educational quality and in a context of a poorly regulated educational market. The specific objectives set by the research are the following: 1. Identify the contextual factors (political, social, economic), actors and mechanisms […]
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Projects
Media
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The urgency of critical pedagogies to transform reality, by Maria Fernanda Rodriguez
July 10, 2024
“It is in the incorporation of reality into school knowledge where the potential for the transformation of reality itself is found”. Our Adjunct Researcher María Fernanda Rodríguez collects the findings of the JustEd Educational Justice project to discuss the concept of shallow pedagogies as a form of epistemic injustice in Peru. Read the article in […]
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Military Service for NEETs: Policy Based on Prejudice or Evidence ?, by María Fernanda Rodríguez and Cristina Glave
August 12, 2021 Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
“The reasons that lead the vast majority of these young people to this situation are linked to structural problems such as job insecurity, poverty and gender inequalities.” Our Adjunct Researcher Maria Fernanda Rodríguez and Cristina Glave, associated at APOYO Consultoría, write in OjoPúblico about the fact that President Pedro Castillo announced in his inaugural speech that NEETs […]
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The urgency of critical pedagogies to transform reality, by Maria Fernanda Rodriguez
July 10, 2024
“It is in the incorporation of reality into school knowledge where the potential for the transformation of reality itself is found”. Our Adjunct Researcher María Fernanda Rodríguez collects the findings of the JustEd Educational Justice project to discuss the concept of shallow pedagogies as a form of epistemic injustice in Peru. Read the article in […]
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Military Service for NEETs: Policy Based on Prejudice or Evidence ?, by María Fernanda Rodríguez and Cristina Glave
August 12, 2021 Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
“The reasons that lead the vast majority of these young people to this situation are linked to structural problems such as job insecurity, poverty and gender inequalities.” Our Adjunct Researcher Maria Fernanda Rodríguez and Cristina Glave, associated at APOYO Consultoría, write in OjoPúblico about the fact that President Pedro Castillo announced in his inaugural speech that NEETs […]
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