María Balarin Bonazzi
Senior Researcher
PhD in Educational Policy - University of Bath
mbalarin@grade.org.pe
María is a Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) where she has a broad portfolio of both applied and academic research.
Her applied work focuses on the analysis and qualitative evaluation of educational and social policies, with a special focus on processes of policy implementation. Her academic work has mostly focused on the field of education, where she has been concerned with understanding how educational processes mediate relations between the state and society. Her recent work focuses on the impact of educational markets on patterns of social segregation; and on vulnerable youth transition processes in the context of exclusionary citizenship regimes, where she also brings a strong gender perspective. She has also developed a strong interest in understanding the conditions under which social research is conducted in developing countries, and on the way in which gender relations underpin research careers and processes of knowledge production as well as the visibility of women’s work in the public sphere.
She holds a PhD in Education Policy from the University of Bath, an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies from the University of Essex, both in the UK, and BA in Philosophy from the Pontificia Universidad Católica in Peru. Between 2006 and 2011 she was a postdoctoral fellow and then a Lecturer in the Department of Education of the University of Bath, UK, where she was associated to the Education Policy and Globalization research group.
Her work has been published in edited books and international academic journals.
She is a member and part of the Steering Committee of Grupo Sofía.
Publications
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Evaluation of the design and implementation of high performance schools – COAR
2021 Maria Balarin, Lorena Alcazar
This report shows the results of the Evaluation of the Design and Implementation of High Performance Schools (COAR), a service model implemented by the Ministry of Education of Peru in 22 regions of the country.
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La inclusión educativa de NNA migrantes venezolanos en el Perú – una política que no se puede nombrar
2020 Lorena Alcazar, Maria Balarin
The education sector has identified the important and growing demand of foreign migrant families, and has reacted to this issue. However, a discourse and practice guaranteeing the right to education coexists with a marked absence of policies explicitly aimed at facilitating its educational inclusion. In this analysis paper, the authors address the educational inclusion of […]
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Poor education and precarious jobs in Peru: Understanding who is left behind and why
2020 Lorena Alcazar, Micaela Bullard, Maria Balarin
Given the large inequalities in Peru, fulfilling the ’leave no one behind’ UN 2030 Agenda commitment might become the country’s largest challenge to SDG implementation. In light of this, understanding who is left behind, and why, gains particular importance. This study uses a mixed methodological approach to provide a baseline of the left behind in […]
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El acompañamiento pedagógico como estrategia de formación docente en servicio: reflexiones para el contexto peruano
2019 Maria Balarin, Aurora Escudero
In agreement with the team of the Office for Teacher Training in Service (DIFODS) of the Ministry of Education (MINEDU), this document contributes to the construction of the institutional theoretical reference that supports the ministerial commitment to the pedagogical support as the main strategy formative The document has allowed aligning approaches, supporting them in the light of international […]
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JournalEducation policy analysis archives
Educating on a budget: the subsistence model of low-fee private schooling in Peru
2019 Maria Balarin, Clara Fontdevila, Paola Marius, María Fernanda Rodríguez
Over the last decades, Peru has experienced an extraordinary rise of low-fee private schools (LFPSs). While global debates on the quality of this modality of schooling have been gaining currency, research on the organizational practices of LFPSs remains comparatively underdeveloped. This paper aims at identifying and describing the managerial, business and organizational practices exhibited by […]
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Evaluación del proceso de implementación de la intervención de soporte pedagógico del Ministerio de Educación del Perú
2016 Maria Balarin
Este informe presenta los resultados de la evaluación del Proceso de implementación de la intervención de Soporte Pedagógico que el Ministerio de Educación del Perú viene desarrollando en las escuelas públicas polidocentes completas de educación primaria en áreas urbanas. La evaluación de procesos se llevó a cabo entre los meses de julio de 2015 y […]
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The dynamics of social research production, circulation and use in Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru: a comparative study
2016 Maria Balarin, Fernando Masi, Miguel Vera, Ignacio González, Belén Servín, Natalia Péres
The paper presents the results of a comparative study of the social research production environments of three Latin-American, low- and middle-income countries: Bolivia, Paraguay and Perú. It draws from three case studies – one of each country – based on in-depth interviews with key informants (policymakers, researchers, leaders of higher education and research institutions) conducted […]
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The default privatization of peruvian education and the rise of low-fee private schools: better or worse opportunities for the poor?
2015 Maria Balarin
The study on which this paper is based set out to explore what was happening in the lowfee private schooling sector in Perú—a growing and un-explored area of public education in the country and in many parts of the developing world—and, more specifi cally, at how parents from poor backgrounds make decisions and navigate the […]
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Las múltiples formas y efectos de la participación del sector privado en la educación
2015 Maria Balarin
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Las políticas TIC en los sistemas educativos de América Latina: el caso Perú
2013 Maria Balarin
Este Mimeo presenta un estudio de caso sobre las políticas TIC en la educación peruana. Se trata de un ámbito relativamente nuevo de la política educativa que se inicia durante la década de 1990.
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JournalPolicy Futures in Education
Post-structuralism, realism and the question of knowledge in educational sociology: a Derridian critique of social realism in education
2008 Maria Balarin
This article engages with a current debate in the sociology of educational knowledge which seeks to dispel the alleged relativism of social constructivist influences in education.
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JournalGlobalization, Societies and Education
Promoting educational reforms in weak states: the case of radical discontinuity in Peru
2008 Maria Balarin
The present article explores the making of education policies in weak states, particularly in the context of developing nations and in view of the increasing influence of international organisations, such as the World Bank, in definition of education reform agendas
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JournalPrimary Review Research Survey
Parenting, Caring and Educating
2007 Yolande Muschamp, Felicity Wikeley, Tess Ridge, Maria Balarin
In this survey of published research we review changing patterns in the structure of the families and identify trends in parenting and caring for today’s generation of primary school children.
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Las mujeres en las Ciencias Sociales: reflexiones sobre el contexto peruano a partir de una revisión de la literatura internacional
Bajo el radar de Sofía: oportunidades y barreras de las profesionales en el Perú2014 Maria Balarin
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Laclau’s theory of hegemony: between socio-cultural politics and a political economy of citizenship
Peru in theory2014 Maria Balarin
Can ‘theory’ teach us anything about Peru? Can ‘Peru’ teach us anything about theory? The chapters in this volume explore these questions by establishing a productive dialogue between Peru and theory. Focusing on institutional weakness and economic, social, gendered, racialized, and other forms of exclusion – key issues in recent social scientific inquiry in Peru […]
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Global citizenship and marginalisation: contributions towards a political economy of global citizenship
The Political Economy of Global Citizenship Education2014 Maria Balarin
This book illustrates the contingency of definitions, the complexities of juxtaposing demands and priorities in different educational contexts, and the difficulties and tensions of asking a question that is arguably one of the most pressing of our time: how should we live together in interdependent ecologies in a finite planet?
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Using theory in social research: reflections on a doctoral study
The Routledge Companion to Education2009 Maria Balarin
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Schooling in Peru
Going to School in Latin America2008 Maria Balarin
It is in this sense that the history of education in Peru can be said to have been dominated by contradictory dynamics. On one hand, increasing educational expansion, especially during the second half of the twentieth century, has been associated with an extension of social opportunities. On the other hand, the education system, since its […]
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Projects
Media
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María Balarin: “We found a plain scenario of underrepresentation of women in the academic and research fields”
July 18, 2017
If women produce as much as their male peers, why do they earn and scale less? In the blog Saber es Poder (Knowledge is Power) of La Mula, María Balarin, senior researcher at GRADE and member of Grupo Sofía, talks with Enrique Mendizábal, founder of On Think Tanks, on the contextual and institutional barriers behind a […]
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María Balarin: Why is the presence of women so relevant in the production of knowledge?
July 13, 2017 Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
Why is so relevant the presence of women in the production of knowledge? Due to a lost of talent issue and also because the perspectives are different. Having more women involves different approaches of the same problem, but also allows the identification of new problems. This topic was discussed by María Balarín, senior researcher at GRADE and member of […]
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María Balarin discusses on the unique university model promoted by the university reform law
January 4, 2017 Education and learning
“The (university) law takes over a homogeneus model of university, for which all institutions are aim to do the same”. María Balarín, senior researcher at GRADE, discussed on the challenges to university reform, including setting up a unique model. In this sense, Balarín argued that, with the massification of higher education, “there are relevant processes of institutional differentiation, […]
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María Balarin joined GDN webinar on funding for social science research
August 2, 2016 Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes
“In many development countries, the discourses and practices of evidence-based policy-making, as well as the discourses regarding the importance of increasing the production of publishable research do seem to be taken hold, but there is little reflection on the need to develop the capacities of the research community, on what this means and how this […]
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María Balarin: “Las escuelas privadas de bajo costo contribuyen a la generación y reproducción de un sistema educativo segregado y altamente estratificado”
May 10, 2016 Education and learning
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Presentations
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The ungoverned education market and the deepening of socioeconomic school segregation in Peru
Ciudad de México, 26 March, 2018
Presentación en la 62° Conferencia Anual de la Sociedad de Educación Comparada e Internacional CIES 2018.
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Mercado privado, consecuencias públicas: un estudio sobre el funcionamiento de los mercados de servicios educativos en el Perú
Auditorio de GRADE, 10 August, 2017
Presentación de resultados iniciales, como parte de las actividades de incidencia del estudio TTI-GRADE.
Selected Publications
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Vocational and business training to improve women’s labour market outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
2018 Marjorie Chinen, Thomas de Hoop, Lorena Alcazar, Maria Balarin, Josh Sennett, Julian Mezarina