Sylvia Schmelkes (born 28 July 1948) is a Mexican sociologist and education researcher, and current director of the Mexican National Institute of Educational Evaluation. She is best known for her work in intercultural education, and her book 'Toward better quality of our schools'. Schmelkes has also written over 100 academic texts and essays.Fierro Evans, "An Intercultural Education for Mexico: Career and Contributions of Sylvia Schmelkes", Curriculum Inquiry, 2012 She is a former General Coordinator of Intercultural and Bilingual Education at the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico, and is currently heading the Research Institute for the Development of Education at the Iberoamerican University."Universidad Iberoamericana - Directorio de Autoridades". Retrieved July 30, 2012
In 2008 she received the Comenius Medal from UNESCO for her career as a researcher.UNESCO, UNESCO.org: Comenius Medal Award, International Conference on Education, 2008. Retrieved July 30, 2012 Other awards include the Universidad Iberoamericana's Tlamatini award in 2003,Premio Tlamatini a la Dra. Sylvia Schmelkes por sus aportes a la educación, "Nuestra Comunidad", No. 97, p. 3 and the Maria Lavalle Urbina award in 1998.Schmelkes, Sylvia, , "Revista Mexicana de Investigación Educativa", Julio-Diciembre, Vol. 3, No. 6. She has an honorary PhD from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Mexico and an honorary Doctor of Law degree from the University of Concordia in Montreal, Canada. She is an Honorary Fellow of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning.
Biography
After this, Schmelkes started working on values education and Intercultural Education, becoming General Coordinator of Intercultural and Bilingual Education at the Secretariat of Public Education under Mexican President Vicente Fox. She currently works as Director of the Institute for the Development of Education at the Iberoamerican University in Mexico City. Schmelkes's work has been published in five languages by institutions such as the Mexican Secretariat of Public Education, UNESCO and the Organization of American States.M A. Cecilia Fierro Evans & Flavio Rojo Pons. 2012. An Intercultural Education for Mexico: Career and Contributions of Sylvia Schmelkes. Curriculum Inquiry Vol. 42, Iss. 1, 2012
Bibliography Hacia una mejor calidad de nuestras escuelas, SEP, 1995 La formación de valores en la educación básica, SEP, 2004 La educación de adultos y las cuestiones sociales, Centro de Cooperación Regional para la Educación de Adultos en América Latina y el Caribe, 2008
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