The PhD in Education and Society program is a multidisciplinary initiative born at the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences at Universidad Andrés Bello. Its creation comes from its vision conviction to promote and train researchers based on the understanding of education as a social phenomenon.
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Education and Society
We invite you to be a part of this program and contribute with new knowledge to society.
Brochure 2022The program has the objective of training independent researchers, with high levels of analysis in the links between Education and Society. Students will learn to communication skills to present their work orally and and in writtenly, as well as leadership to direct multidisciplinary research teams.
Graduates from the PhD in Education and Society program from Universidad Andrés Bello are high-level researchers with a multidisciplinary approach and specialized methodological tools in the Social Sciences and Humanities. They’re able to formulate relevant scientific questions on the educational phenomenon observed, to develop new knowledge in the area created by the intersection of Education and Society.
The PhD in Education and Society has three research lines:
This line of research focuses on studying subjective, organizational, community wellbeing, identifying, and preventing risk factors in the educational and social context. It aims to contribute to developing and collecting personal and social indicators that favor the development of wellbeing inside academic communities from a socio-ecological perspective.
This line of research focuses on the analysis of processes which through people comprehend and produce languages as ways to represent, understand and participate in different sociocultural and educational contexts, in their first and second languages, in academic and social contemporary contexts.
This line of research centers its interest on tracing and analysis of Educational Policies to understand their underlying concepts, their design and implementation logic, and their processes and models of evaluation.
María Gabriela Huidobro
PhD in History, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile. Academic ProfileJavier Torres
PhD in Psychology. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile. PhD in Psychology. Universitat de Girona, Spain Academic ProfileLiliana Vásquez
PhD in Linguistics. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile Academic ProfileGabriela Vásquez
PhD in Didactics of Social Sciences. Universidad de Valladolid. Spain Academic ProfileFrano Giakoni Ramírez
Doctor en Ciencias del Deporte de la Universidad Católica de Murcia. Academic ProfileRodrigo Medel Sierralta
Doctor en Ciencia Política, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Perfil del AcadémicoAndrés Bello University has different scholarships for its doctoral students, to learn more we invite you to visit the Doctorates home where you will find Scholarships and Financing Opportunities.
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Application process will be online. Documents must be sent to the following email address:
Juan Carlos Oyanedel
Program Director
desoc@unab.cl