Counselor of the Governing Board of the National Institute for the Evaluation of Education (INEE)
Sylvia is a sociologist and researcher in education, Mexican. She is known for her work in intercultural education and for her book “Hacia una mejor calidad de nuestras escuelas” (Towards better quality of our schools).
She studied sociology at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City where she also obtained his master’s degree. Schmelkes worked at the Center for Educational Studies (CEE) of Mexico for 25 years, where she devoted herself to research in the fields of rural education and adult education. In 1994 he left the CEE to work as a consultant in the Department of Educational Research of the National Polytechnic Institute, as well as for UNESCO, UNICEF, and the OECD.
She has carried out exploratory studies on good practices in support programs for indigenous people in higher education. She has written more than 100 academic texts and essays.
She was general coordinator of Intercultural and Bilingual Education in the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico; from 2008 to 2013 she was the director of the Research Institute for the Development of Education -INIDE- of the Universidad Iberoamericana, and from 2013 to 2017 she chaired the Governing Board of the National Institute for the Evaluation of Education.