Jennifer Guevara

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Postdoctoral Rising Talent Fellow of the Early Childhood Research Centre at Dublin City University, Ireland and Associate Researcher of the Education Programme at the Centre for the Implementation of Public Policies for Equity and Growth (CIPPEC). She works on questions of Early Childhood Education and Care policies, systems and workforce, with a particular focus in South America. She has published two books and more than ten articles in peer-reviewed academic outlets in English and Spanish.

Guevara holds a PhD in Education from Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina. She is co-founder of the Latin American Network for Research of Early Childhood Education, Care and Upbringing (Red de Estudios Latinoamericanos sobre Crianza, Enseñanza y Cuidado, RELACEC).

She is Visiting Professor at Universidad de San Andrés, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina), and Universidad de Cuenca (Ecuador). She has been doctoral and postdoctoral fellow of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council for Argentina (CONICET), and Teaching Fellow at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) and Universidad Nacional de San Martín.

Book

Year Publication
2021 Cardini, Alejandra; Guevara, Jennifer & Steinberg, Cora (2021) Mapa de la educación inicial en Argentina: aportes para una agenda de equidad de la primera infancia. Buenos Aires: UNICEF-CIPPEC.
2019 Guevara, Jennifer (2019) Transmitir el oficio de enseñar. La formación de docentes para el nivel inicial. Buenos Aires: TeseoPress.

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2021 Guevara, Jennifer (2021) 'The Challenges of Making the Invisible Visible – Studying the Transmission of Experiential Knowledge in Early Childhood Teacher Education' In: Decisions and Dilemmas of Research Methods in Early Childhood Education. London : Routledge.
2020 Urban, Mathias & Guevara, Jennifer (2020) 'Early Childhood in the global village: competent systems for sustainable development' In: Ireland's Yearbook of Education 2019-2020. Dublin : Education Matters.
2019 Mathias Urban, Alejandra Cardini, Jennifer Guevara, Rita Flórez Romero, Lynette Okengo (2019) 'Early childhood development education and care: the future is what we build today' In: Realizing Education for All in the Digital Age. Tokio : Asian Development Bank Institute.
2019 Beech, Jason; Guevara, Jennifer (2019) 'Multiple Internationalisations. The Idiosyncratic Enactment of the International Baccalaureate in State Schools in Costa Rica, Peru and Buenos Aires' In: The Machinery of School Internationalisation in Action Beyond the Established Boundaries. London : Routledge.
2018 Jennifer Guevara (2018) 'Los modos de formar: una vía para la transmisión del saber experiencial en los espacios de práctica' In: Práctica Reflexiva: escenarios y horizontes. Avances relevantes en el contexto internacional. Buenos Aires : Aique.
2018 Jennifer Guevara (2018) 'El oficio de formar docentes. Los modos de formar en los talleres de prácticas' In: La educación de los niños de 0-3. Buenos Aires : Noveduc.
2016 Zacarías Ivana; Aberbuj, Claudia; Guevara, Jennifer & Félix, Belén (2016) 'Programa de Mejoramiento de la Enseñanza: innovación pedagógica y democratización en la Universidad Nacional de San Martín' In: El derecho a la Universidad en perspectiva regional. Buenos Aires : IEC - CONADU: CLACSO.

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2022 Guevara, Jennifer;Cardini, Alejandra (2022) 'Early Childhood Education and Care in South America — a new curricular wave?'. Journal of Education Policy, .
2020 Guevara, Jennifer (2020) 'What does it mean to be an early childhood educator? Negotiating professionalism during practicum placements in Buenos Aires (Argentina)'. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 28 (3):439-449.
2020 Ignacio García Hervás, Jennifer Guevara & Ángela Aisenstein (2020) '¿Puericultoras, técnicas o profesionales especializadas? Un análisis histórico de la formación docente para la educación infantil en Argentina a partir de sus planes de estudio'. Historia de la Educacion. Anuario, 21 (1):165-189. Link
2020 Guevara, Jennifer & Semmoloni, Carolina (2020) 'Los docentes de nivel inicial y la lectura de literatura no especializada: un estudio sobre prácticas lectoras en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires'. Espacios en Blanco. Serie Indagaciones, 30 (1). Link
2018 Guevara, Jennifer (2018) 'Los docentes orientadores en el practicum: limites y posibilidades para su participacion como formadores'. (49):94-103.
2019 Guevara, Jennifer & Cardini, Alejandra (2019) 'El lugar del curriculum en la primera infancia: aportes de una mirada comparada'. Profesorado, 33 (3):473-491.
2018 Feijoo, Macarena; Guevara, Jennifer & Aisenstein, Angela (2018) 'Estado de la cuestion acerca de las investigaciones históricas sobre la formacion inicial docente de maestros y profesores en Argentina en el periodo 1860-1990'. Historia de la Educacion. Anuario, 18 (1):133-155. Link
2018 Guevara, Jennifer (2018) 'Saberes practicos en la formacion docente para la educacion inicial'. Pedagogia y Saberes, (48):127-139.
2017 Guevara, Jennifer (2017) 'Divergencias en la definicion del oficio docente en el espacio de las practicas. Un estudio de caso sobre el nivel inicial'. Paginas de Educacion, 10 (2):1-20.
2017 Guevara, Jennifer (2017) 'La formacion en los espacios de practica docente: modos de transmision del oficio'. Estudios Pedagogicos, 43 (2):127-145. Link
2016 Guevara, Jennifer (2016) 'La triada de las practicas docentes: aportes de investigaciones anglofonas'. Espacios en Blanco. Serie Indagaciones, (26):243-271. Link

Other Journal

Year Publication
2019 Claudia Aberbuj, Jennifer Guevara and Lorena Fernández Fastuca (2019) 'El desafío de la enseñanza en el nivel superior: una experiencia de desarrollo profesional docente situado' 11 (18) :12-23.

Conference Contribution

Year Publication
2021 Jennifer Guevara (2021) International Froebel Society Conference 2021 Negotiating professionalism during placements in Buenos Aires (Argentina) Online, 31/05/2021-02/07/2021.
2021 Jennifer Guevara (2021) Comparative and International Education Society Conference 2021 Integrated policies but (still) fragmented systems? Early childhood education and care policy responses to Covid19 in South America Online, 15/04/2021-30/06/2021.
2021 Jennifer Guevara (2021) American Educational Research Association Borderlines in Early Childhood Education and Care Online, 15/04/2021-20/04/2021.
2019 Guevara, Jennifer (2019) 27th International RECE Conference. Border/lands and (Be)longings Care, teaching and upbringing: (re)creating borderlines in policy and practice Las Cruces, New Mexico, .
2019 Cardini, Alejandra; Guevara, Jennifer & Steinberg, Cora (2019) III Coloquio de Investigación educativa Políticas de educación inicial en Argentina: gobierno y territorio Buenos Aires, .
2018 Guevara, Jennifer (2018) 26th International RECE Conference: Inequality in Early Childhood Education and Care Early Childhood care, teaching and upbringing in Argentina: the challenge of equity Copenhagen, .
2018 Beech, Jason; Guevara, Jennifer & Del Monte, Pablo (2018) Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference ‘Re-Mapping Global Education: South-North Dialogue’ The challenges of researching embedded globalization in three countries Mexico DF, .
2018 Cardini, Alejandra; Feijoo, Macarena; Semmoloni, Carolina; Yachte, Tobías & Guevara, Jennife (2018) IV Seminario Red Estrado: ‘La regulación del trabajo y la formación docente en el siglo XXI' Jugando al ‘gallito ciego’: el perfil y la inserción institucional de los profesionales de primera infancia en Argentina Buenos Aires, .
2017 Vezub, Lea & Guevara, Jennifer (2017) XII Jornadas de Sociología de la Universidad de Buenos Aires Políticas de formación continua y reconfiguración de la identidad profesional docente Buenos Aires, .
2016 Vezub, Lea & Guevara, Jennifer (2016) 27th Annual ATEE Conference ‘Educating the best teachers: a challenge for teacher education Professional development policies in Argentina (2013-2016) Eindhoven, .
2016 Guevara, Jennifer (2016) Bringing Teacher Education Forward Passing on Practical Knowledge: a case study of Early Childhood Teacher Education in Buenos Aires (Argentina) Oslo, .
2015 Guevara, Jennifer (2015) V Jornadas Nacionales y II Latinoamericanas de Investigadores/as en Formación en Educación Tramas, tensiones y sentidos en las aproximaciones a la práctica durante la formación inicial docente en un profesorado de Nivel Inicial Buenos Aires, .
2015 Guevara, Jennifer (2015) VIII Congreso Iberoamericano de docencia universitaria y de nivel superior La formación de los que enseñan: hacia la transmisión de los saberes de oficio Rosario, .

Blog

Year Publication
2017 Guevara, Jennifer & Cardini, Alejandra (2017) Criar, enseñar y cuidar: hacia un marco cohesionado para pensar las políticas para la primera infancia. BLOG Link

Published Report

Year Publication
2020 Alejandra Cardini and Jennifer Guevara (2020) El sentido del curriculum para las políticas de primera infancia en América del Sur. CIPPEC, . Link
2019 Cora Steinberg, Alejandra Cardini and Jennifer Guevara (2019) Mapa de la educación inicial en Argentina: síntesis de resultados. UNICEF-CIPPEC, .
2019 Alejandra Cardini and Jennifer Guevara (2019) Los docentes de nivel inicial en Argentina. UNICEF-CIPPEC, .
2019 Alejandra Cardini and Jennifer Guevara (2019) La regulación de la educación inicial en Argentina: panorama normativo. UNICEF-CIPPEC, .
2019 Alejandra Cardini and Jennifer Guevara (2019) La regulación de la educación inicial en Argentina: panorama curricular. UNICEF-CIPPEC, .
2018 Beech, Jason; Guevara, Jennifer & Del Monte, Pablo (2018) Diploma Programme implementation in public schools in Latin America: The cases of Costa Rica, Argentina (Buenos Aires) and Peru. IBO, .
2018 Alejandra Cardini; Gala Díaz; Jennifer Guevara, Olivia de Achával, (2018) Cuidar, enseñar y criar al mismo tiempo: el desafío para las políticas públicas para la primera infancia en Argentina. CIPPEC, .
2017 Alejandra Cardini and Jennifer Guevara (2017) El lugar del currículum en el mapa de la educación de la primera infancia. CIPPEC, .
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Professional Associations

Association Function From / To
Red de Estudios Latinoamericanos en Crianza, Enseñanza y Cuidado Founder 01/12/2019 -
Think 20 Evence based advise to the G20 01/03/2018 -
Comparative and International Education Society Member 01/03/2018 -
Rede Latino-Americana de Estudos sobre Trabalho Docente Member 01/03/2015 -

Honors and Awards

Date Title Awarding Body
01/03/2019 Rising Talent Postdoctoral Fellowship Dublin City University
01/02/2020 Charlemont Grant Royal Irish Academy
01/03/2018 CONICET Postdoctoral Fellowship National Research Council for Technical and Scientific Research for Argentina (CONICET, Argentina)
01/09/2016 Best Doctoral Dissertation in Education Universidad de San Andrés
01/03/2012 CONICET Doctoral Fellowship National Research Council for Technical and Scientific Research for Argentina (CONICET)
01/10/2011 Best BA Dissertation in Education Universidad de San Andrés
01/09/2011 Best GPA Award Universidad de San Andrés
01/12/2007 BA Scholarship Fundación Bunge y Born

Committees

Committee Function From / To
'29th Reconceptualising Early Childhood Education' Programme Chair Committee 01/01/2020 -
Think 20 Task Force 7: 'G20 Support for SDGs and Development Cooperation' 01/01/2020 -
Institute of Education Faculty Ethics Review Panel 28/10/2021 -

Education

Start date Institution Qualification Subject
Universidad de San Andrés BA in education
UCL-Institute of Education Special Research Programme
Universidad de San Andrés Doctor of Education

Languages

Language Reading Writing Speaking
Spanish Fluent Fluent Fluent
Portuguese Fluent Functional Fluent
English Fluent Fluent Fluent

Reviews

Journal Role
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood Reviewer
International Journal of Early Years Education Reviewer
Children Reviewer
Estudios Pedagogicos Reviewer
Education Policy Analysis Archives Reviewer
European Journal of Teacher Education Reviewer

Outreach Activities

Year Engagement Type Organisation Description
Educational Outreach/Public Engagement Dublin City University Co-organiser of the Early Childhood Critical Reading Group
Presentations/Talks to an external audience Dublin City University Public Lecture 'Diversity and inequalities in Early Childhood policies and systems'

Media

Title Year Type Authors
Cómo priorizar a la educación inicial 2019 Newspaper article (Print) Cardini, Alejandra & Guevara, Jennifer

Research Interests

Dr. Guevara works on questions of early childhood education and care (ECEC) systems, policies and workforce, with a particular focus in South America. Currently, she works on ECEC governance and the local level.

Research Projects

Title Role Description Start date End date
Nordic Approaches to Evaluation and Assessment in Early Childhood Education and Care DCU Co-PI 01/01/2021 15/12/2021
Resilient Early Childhood Education, Care and Development Systems Researcher 03/05/2021 30/03/2022
Governance in Early Childhood Education and Care: the case of Argentina Postdoctoral Fellow Independent Research 01/04/2019
Integrated policies for Early Childhood in Latin America Co-PI 01/09/2018 31/03/2019
Teaching, Caring and Upbringing of young children in Buenos Aires – new understandings of a fragmented and heterogeneous system Postdoctoral Fellow Independent Research 01/04/2018 31/03/2019
Roadmap of Early Childhood Education in Argentina: services, regulation and workforce Co-Investigator 01/07/2017 31/03/2020
Diploma Programme implementation in public schools in Latin America: The cases of Costa Rica, Argentina (Buenos Aires) and Peru Co-Investigator 01/03/2017 31/12/2017
Early childhood frameworks: integrated services, integrated curricula Co-PI 01/07/2016 31/12/2018
Historical Education Quality Database Fieldwork coordinator 01/07/2015 31/03/2016
Governance in Early Childhood Education and Care: the case of Argentina DCU PI 01/08/2020 31/08/2020

Current Postgraduate Students

Student Name Degree Supervision
Silke ,Aishling PhD-track Supervisor
Smyth ,Lynda PhD-track Supervisor
Moradi ,Zeinab PhD-track Supervisor

Modules Coordinated

Term Title Subject
2020 Current Issues in ECE EC308
2021 Critical Social Studies in Early Childhood Education and Care EC214