Marcela Renee Pardo Quinones

Marcela Renee Pardo Quiñones is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School, Institute of Advanced Studies in Education of the University of Chile. She specializes in early childhood education, teacher professionalism, and educational policy analysis, with a focus on schoolification, developmental assessment, and teacher associations.

• Education: Anthropologist (University of Chile, 2000)

Research interests include the tensions between educational policy and classroom practices, professional identity formation in early childhood educators, and the validation of developmental assessment tools. Her work explores how teachers navigate systemic pressures while maintaining pedagogical autonomy.

Recent publications examine professionalism through teacher unions, psychometric properties of child development tests, and resistance to schoolification. She leads research projects on play relevance in preschool education and teacher professional autonomy.

Teaching roles span courses like "Monitoring the Fulfillment of the Right to Education in Early Childhood" (2022-2025) and "Qualitative Methodology II" (2024), with prior engagements at the Faculty of Social Sciences (2016-2017).