Cecilia Braslavsky

Cecilia Braslavsky (5 January 1952 – 1 June 2005) was an Argentine educator, pedagogue, and author. She served as Director-General of Educational Research in the Argentine Ministry of Education and Director of UNESCO's International Bureau of Education.[1]

Braslavsky was born in Buenos Aires in 1952. She received degrees from the University of Buenos Aires and University of Leipzig (Ph.D.). She was a professor at the University of Buenos Aires, Educational Coordinator of the Latin American Social Sciences Faculty (1984-92), Coordinator of the Argentine Basic Contents Programme (1993), Director-General of Educational Research in the Argentine Ministry of Education (1994), and she was appointed Director of UNESCO's International Bureau of Education in 2000. A prolific writer, her essay Rehaciendo escuelas: hacia un nuevo paradigma en la educación latino-americana (1999), received the Andrès Bello Award for Latin American Thought. She died of cancer in Geneva, Switzerland in 2005.[1]

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  1. 1 2 "In Memoriam of Cecilia Braslavsky (1952 - 2005)". UNESCO. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
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