Christine Sleeter. University of Monterey, California (EE.UU).
Title of the conference: Education for Social Justice. Who and how is the curriculum decided?
Bio: Professor Emerita in the College of Professional Studies at California State University Monterey Bay. She was president of the National Association for Multicultural Education and Vice President of Division K of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Her research focuses on anti-racist multicultural education, ethnic studies, and teacher education. Dr. Sleeter has published over 140 articles in edited books and journals such as Educational Researcher, Multicultural Education Review, Urban Education, and Teaching and Teacher Education. Her most recent non-fiction book is Un-Standardizing Curriculum: Multicultural Teaching in the Standards-Based Classroom. Recent awards for her work include the American Educational Research Association Social Justice in Education Award, the Chapman University Paulo Freire Education Project Social Justice Award and membership in the Laureate Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education.
Teresa Aguado Odina. National Distance Education University – UNED (Spain)
Title of the conference: EducationIntercultural education for equity and social justice. Limits, challenges and opportunities
Professor of the Department of Research Methods and Techniques in Educational Sciences,of the Spanish Distance University (UNED). Her field of education, training and research is the intercultural education.
She coordinates the INTER Research Group on Intercultural Education (www.uned.es/grupointer) and the Euro-Latinamerican Master’s Degree on Intercultural Education (UNED), in collaboration with the CSIC (Spain) and the Universidad Veracruzana (Mexico).
Carmen Montecinos Sanhuenza. Catholic Pontifical University of Chile, Valparaiso (Chile)
Title of the conference: Leadership in a global world
Magister and Ph.D. from the University of Southern Illinois Carbondale, in United States. Dr. Montecinos is a Professor in the School of Psychology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso and Senior Researcher at the Center for Advanced Research in Education (CIAE-Universidad de Chile). Her most recent co-authored publications include: School Administrators and University Practicum Supervisors as Boundary Brokers for Initial Teacher Education in Chile (Teaching and Teacher Education, 2015); Managing conflicting versions of professionalism (Educational Management, Administration & Leadership, 2014).
María Victoria Reyzábal. Instituto Superior de Promoción Educativa (Spain)
Title of the conference: Women and resilient survivorship
Poet, narrator, essayist and critic. Specialist in Language and Literature and its Didactics.
She has been an inspector of Education and Deputy Director General of Attention to Diversity and Education of the Community of Madrid, developing the oficial new curriculum design for Spanish Language and Literature. Among her most important publications are: The significant learning of Literature, the oral communication and its didactic one, the glance of the other. Texts to work intercultural education and gender difference (2008), etc. She is the winner of the sixth edition of the Luis López Anglada International Poetry Prize (2010). In addition, she has published numerous poetry books.
