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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El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar
2022 Maria Balarin, Santiago Cueto, Ricardo Fort
Los ensayos que conforman este libro han sido escritos a modo de conmemoración por los primeros 40 años de vida institucional de GRADE, que coinciden no solo con el Bicentenario de la Independencia del Perú, sino también con la crisis sanitaria por la pandemia del COVID-19 y sus profundas secuelas económicas, sociales y políticas. Desde […]
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Chapter in BookLa mejora sistémica de la educación
Paradojas de la mejora educativa en los niveles subnacionales de gobierno: los casos de San Martín y Ayacucho
2021 Maria Balarin
En Perú, María Balarin analiza dos casos muy disímiles. Por un lado, San Martín fue el único caso seleccionado en el que no hubo mejoras por encima del país, pero fue elegido ante la falta de casos de mejora porque los expertos consultados destacaron su planificación, articulación y calidad de gestión en un contexto muy […]
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Chapter in BookLa educación peruana más allá del Bicentenario: nuevos rumbos
Los caminos encontrados del financiamiento y la descentralización educativa en el Perú
2021 Maria Balarin, Mauricio Saavedra
About the book: This volume brings together 23 essays that address from different perspectives and in different textual registers (from the free essay to a format close to the academic article) central problems of contemporary Peruvian education with a common purpose: to suggest ways to introduce substantive modifications that allow, for on the one hand, […]
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El derecho a estudiar: Inclusión de niñas, niños y adolescentes migrantes venezolanos al sistema educativo peruano
2021 Lorena Alcazar, Maria Balarin
Perú es, después de Colombia, el país a donde más familias venezolanas han emigrado en búsqueda de nuevas oportunidades. Al ingresar al país, las niñas, niños y adolescentes venezolanos y sus familias se enfrentan a situaciones de vulnerabilidad social debido a su condición de personas migrantes. Si bien el Estado peruano ha hecho importantes esfuerzos […]
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Chapter in BookExamining educational policy in Latin America: comprehensive insights into contemporary reform
The slow development process of educational policies in Peru
2021 Maria Balarin
This book synthesizes and analyzes the complex map of educational reforms in Latin America in the first two decades of the 21st century. The book offers insights into the agendas, processes and political economy of educational reforms in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. The chapters present systematic, critical and reflective accounts of an intense […]
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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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Evaluación del diseño e implementación de la intervención de soporte pedagógico intercultural del Ministerio de Educación del Perú
2018 Maria Balarin, Aurora Escudero
Por encargo del Ministerio de Educación, y con el apoyo del Proyecto FORGE, GRADE asume la conducción de una evaluación de diseño y proceso de implementación de la intervención de Soporte Pedagógico Intercultural (SPI) bajo la supervisión y acompañamiento técnico de la Oficina de Seguimiento y Evaluación Estratégica (OSEE), responsable de coordinar el proceso de producción, […]
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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
This Campbell systematic review examines the impact of vocational and business training targeted at women in low- and middle-income countries. The review summarises evidence from thirty-five quantitative studies with an experimental or quasi-experimental design. The review summarises the impact of 30 interventions, containing data from over 80,000 women. The qualitative narrative meta-synthesis includes findings from […]
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La trayectoria reciente y situación actual de la educación privada en el Perú
2017 Maria Balarin
Como mostraremos a lo largo del documento, el sector privado de la educación es hoy en día en extremo diverso. En él coexisten instituciones educativas de alta calidad con otras de calidad dudosa, muchas de las cuales operan en situación de informalidad. Del mismo modo, los resultados alcanzados por el sector privado de la educación […]
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Impacts of the Peruvian conditional cash transfer program on women empowerment: a quantitative and qualitative approach
2016 Lorena Alcazar, Maria Balarin, Karen Espinoza
This study aims to identify the effects of the conditional cash transfer program of Peru, Juntos, on women’s empowerment. Although the program does not envisage women’s welfare as an objective per se, women play a key role as they are the main recipients of the cash transfer and are responsible for compliance with the program’s conditions and thus […]
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JournalBritish Journal of Sociology of Education
Understanding education: a sociological perspective
2011 Maria Balarin
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JournalGlobalization, Societies and Education
Global citizenship and marginalization: contributions towards a political economy of global citizenship
2011 Maria Balarin
This paper provides a critical discussion of the literature on global citizenship education using a theorical approach that sterms form political economy theories of globalisation.
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JournalCompare: a Journal of Comparative and International Education
Curriculum reform and the displacement of knowledge in Peruvian rural secondary schools: exploring the unintended local consequences of global education policies
2010 Martín Benavides, Maria Balarin
The processes of policy implementation in developing contexts and the unintended consequences of education policies that follow international policy scripts without enough consideration of local histories and cultures.
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JournalPrimary Review Research Survey
The governance, administration and control of primary education
2008 Maria Balarin, Hugh Lauder
In this report a detailed description of the current state of educational governance, administration and control will be presented.
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JournalPolicy Futures in Education
The Right to Knowledge and the Right to Philosophy
2008 Maria Balarin
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¿De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de la reforma educativa?: continuidades, discontinuidades y ausencias en los intentos recientes de reformar la educación básica en el Perú
Aproximaciones al Perú de hoy desde las ciencias sociales2019 Maria Balarin
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Oportunidades y barreras en la trayectoria de las científicas sociales peruanas
Desigualdad en la academia: mujeres en las ciencias sociales2018 Lorena Alcazar, Maria Balarin, Andrea Román
El presente capítulo se enmarca en estos esfuerzos y es resultado de esa agenda del Grupo Sofía, que pretende profundizar en el análisis de las disparidades entre las experiencias de mujeres y hombres en el mundo laboral académico de las ciencias sociales. Específicamente, analizamos las oportunidades y barreras a las que se enfrentan las científicas sociales peruanas durante su […]
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El entorno de la investigación social en el Perú
Desigualdad en la academia: mujeres en las ciencias sociales2018 Lorena Alcazar, Maria Balarin, Aurora Escudero
En el Perú existen coincidencias importantes con los hallazgos de esta literatura, hay también particularidades que se explicarían por lo que podemos describir como el entorno precario en el que se desarrolla la investigación académica en el país, entorno que profundiza algunas desigualdades de género que también se plantean en el presente libro.
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¿Cómo abordar el estudio de las inequidades de género en el mundo académico?
Desigualdad en la academia: mujeres en las ciencias sociales2018 Lorena Alcazar, Maria Balarin
Este primer capítulo busca situar a las personas que lean este libro en ese abordaje conceptual compartido sobre el problema de las inequidades de género en el mundo académico. Para ello, presentamos una breve discusión sobre cómo nos aproximamos a los regímenes de inequidad en el campo académico y de la investigación, y sobre los principales aportes […]
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El contexto importa: reflexiones acerca de cómo los contextos y la composición escolar afectan el rendimiento y la experiencia educativa de los estudiantes
Investigación para el desarrollo en el Perú: once balances2016 Maria Balarin
The starting point for this assessment is the idea that in complex systems such as education, results are the product of dynamic interactions between actors, policies, and contexts—cultural, social, and institutional. Therefore, it is impossible to reduce results to a single, specific, replicable set of facts. The assessment seeks to delve into this idea by […]
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Inclusión social: diálogos entre la investigación y las políticas públicas
2014 Martín Benavides, Miguel Jaramillo, Santiago Cueto, Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, Nestor Valdivia, Lorena Alcazar, Manuel Glave, Maria Balarin, Juan Jose Diaz, Juana Kuramoto, Gerardo Damonte
Esta publicación recoge el espíritu del seminario internacional "Cambios Institucionales para un Estado más Inclusivo" (julio de 2012), y apunta a lo más relevante y valioso de cada exposición, intervención y comentario.
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Educating for the knowledge economy?: critical perspectives
2012 Maria Balarin, Hugh Lauder, Harry Daniels, John Lowe
The promise, embraced by governments around the world, is that the knowledge economy will provide knowledge workers with a degree of autonomy and permission to think which enables them to be creative and to attract high incomes. What credence should we give to this promise? The current economic crisis is provoking a reappraisal of both […]
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The school governance study
2008 Maria Balarin, Steve Brammer, Chris James, Mark McCormack
This study analysed the policy and research literature relevant to school governing. It carried out 43 in-depth interviews with key stakeholders, undertook a large scale random on-line survey of over 5000 school governors and elicited the views of 42 headteachers.
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Projects
- Impacts of the Juntos Program on women’s empoweringOctober 2014
- Comparative study of the educational systems in South America – the Peruvian caseJuly 2014
- Twelve years of PISA: An education map in Latin AmericaMarch 2014 - July 2014
- Preparation of proposal and tools for the analysis of factors associated to student performanceMarch 2013 - May 2013
- Elaboration of a methodological proposal and pilot of instruments for the study on planning and implementation of learning situations in urban and rural primary school classrooms.October 2012 - November 2012
- Case study on TIC policy management of the Peruvian educational systemOctober 2012 - November 2012
- Pilot and design of qualitative methodologies for the study of chronic poverty in Latin America and The CaribbeanMay 2012 - June 2012
- Understanding the impact of Think Tanks: preparatory studies for the event “2012 Think Tank Initiative Exchange”March 2012 - December 2012
- Qualitative Evaluation of the Tutoring and Follow-up Model of Enseña PerúSeptember 2011 - January 2012
- Servicio de Consultoría Estudio sobre oferta y demanda en la educación en Áreas RuralesDecember 2005
Media
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María Balarin joins podcast about the authorship of research work carried out by women
May 16, 2018 Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
María Balarin, Senior Researcher at GRADE and member of Grupo Sofía, Carmen Velezmoro, Vice Chancelor of Research at Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, and Gisella Orjeda, chair of the Association En Órbita, discuss the issues regarding the authorship of academic research work made by women. Podcast of Mujeres Que Transforman.
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Inequality in academy, by Lorena Alcázar and María Balarin
May 11, 2018 Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
In the Peruvian social sciences, half of the university students are women. However, only one in three teachers and one in five media experts are women. Why do we see fewer women in academic events, media and in teaching and management positions? What can be done about it? We share the op-ed by Lorena Alcázar and María Balarin, […]
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María Balarín on the presence and impact of women in science in Peru
April 18, 2018 Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
María Balarin, senior researcher at GRADE, Carmen Velezmoro, vice-rector of research at the National Agrarian University La Molina, and Gisella Orjeda, former president of the National Council of Science, Technology and Technological Innovation, discuss the situation of women in science in the Peru and share with the initiative Women Transforming their experience: What macho expressions and attitudes […]
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Low-cost private schools in Peru: the high cost of low quality?
February 21, 2018 Education and learning
We share an article on the main findings of the recent study “Low-cost private education in Peru: a quality approach”, conducted by researchers from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and GRADE with the support of Unite for Quality Education. The text highlights the impact of the low-fee private schools sector on both learning processes and learning […]
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Six in 10 private schools are low-cost and mostly of subsistence
August 11, 2017 Education and learning, State reform and public institutions
What is the situation of private education in Peru? The newspaper Gestión highlighted some of the topics discussed in the presentation of the study by our senior researchers, María Balarin and Hugo Ñopo, on the functioning of the market of educational services in our country [Video and wrap-up of the presentation here].
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Casi el 90% piensa que la educación escolar en nuestro país es entre mala y regular
October 21, 2012 State reform and public institutions
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El Estado tiene tres retos respecto a la institucionalidad intercultural
July 11, 2012 Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
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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: “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