With the recent award of three projects funded by the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID, for its name in Spanish) in which scholars from the School of Pedagogy of our university participate, the school establishes its national and international leadership, and its commitment to an education that is transformational and justice oriented.
These news reflect the robustness of the developed research lines and positions the PUCV School of Education as a leader in literacy, cognition, inclusion and teacher professional development.
For Marcela Jarpa, director of the School of Pedagogy (EPE, for its name in Spanish), this is an achievement that accounts for the progress and maturity of the research team “that have managed to articulate a fruitful dialogue between the School and the Academy, between teacher initial training and applied research”.
“Education research means to go beyond theoretical frameworks or epistemic models; it requires, first of all, deep convictions about transforming educational spaces and those who inhabit them. This has been our guide and the reason why we have been able to establish lines of investigation that situate us today as leaders in teaching and learning ecosystems, inclusion and citizenship, and management and public policy”, Jarpa noted.
The projects
The first of the three awarded projects is “MISTRALL: Millennium Institute for the Study of Literacy and Transformational Learning (2025-2034)” – led by the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile –with the purpose of creating cutting-edge models about how literacy is developed and promoted, transferring this knowledge to society through materials, programs and public policies. Professors Andrea Bustos and Marta Quiroga, from our School of Pedagogy, are part of this project.
MISTRALL includes networking with other four national universities – Diego Portales, Universidad del Desarrollo, Universidad de Los Andes and Universidad Austral de Chile – as well as the international institutions Universidad de Salamanca, University of Canberra, Stanford University and the University of Houston.
Next we have the “Center for Advanced Research in Education (CIAE) (2025-2034)” – led by the Universidad de Chile – which seeks to improve educational results in literacy and Mathematics, addressing inequalities. Its lines of investigation include educational policy and school improvement; teacher profession; early childhood teaching and learning; and cognition and learning. Andrea Bustos and Marcela Jarpa from the School of Pedagogy are part of this project.
The third project is “MICAI: Millennium Nucleus for the Comprehensive Study of High Ability and its Diverse Contexts (2025–2027)” – led by the Universidad de Santiago – which seeks to study in a comprehensive way high abilities and its various contexts, contributing to the understanding and development of inclusive educational policies. Researchers from the School of Pedagogy Tatiana López and Kathia Sandoval are part of this project, in addition to Sandra Catalán as alternate director.
For Andrea Bustos, scholar from the PUCV School of Pedagogy and awardee of two out of the three projects, being a part of initiatives of such significance, that are interdisciplinary and associative at both national and international levels, offers a real opportunity to impact public policy and visibilize the regional work carried out.
“Our research, our university signature, the type of work we have been doing for many years now, can finally influence public policy because we are in synergy. It means working with more people and have more perspectives, but at the same time having a real space for impact”, Andrea Bustos emphasized.
“The CIAE, MISTRALL and MICAI projects strengthen these trajectories, broaden our interdisciplinary and global collaboration networks, and ensure that the resulting knowledge directly impacts teacher education, extending its effects to educational communities and the country”, Marcela Jarpa, Director of the School of Pedagogy, added.
The projects, that will extend for periods up to ten years, contribute to the strengthening of educational research, the promotion of national and international Interdisciplinary work, the creation of educational policies and the visibility of the scientific work carried out by the University.
By Erika Schubert
Strategic Communications Department
