Breull Arancibia, Valeria
PhD student, admission 2025
Nationality: chilean
Education: Psychologist, Diego Portales University, Master's in Educational Research, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Introduction: Valeria Breull is an educational psychologist and holds a Master's degree in Educational Research. Her experience includes coordinating and participating in research and intervention projects on school coexistence, inclusion, and non-sexist and gender-sensitive education, both at universities and in civil society organizations. She is currently interested in issues of gender and sexuality in childhood.
About my thesis
Facility: Children's agencies on gender and sexuality in school
Project description: My thesis project seeks to investigate the experiences of children in relation to gender and sexual (in)equality in the school context, specifically their practices of resistance and agency in the production of gender and sexuality.
Director: Valentina Errazuriz Besa
Line of research: Politics, equity and difference in education, leadership and school improvement
Publications and presentations
Publications
(2024). Scopus. Agud-Morell, I., & Breull-Arancibia, V. Children's agencies navigating sexism and LGBTI+ phobia in Santiago de Chile's primary school. Children & Society, 001-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12869
(2024). WOS. Besoain Saldaña, A., Peña Ochoa, M., Breull Arancibia, V., Concha Bañados, S., and Schongut Grollmus, N. Family strategies for children with disabilities to access health, education, and care during the pandemic. Medwave 2024;24(Suppl 1). http://doi.org/10.5867/medwave.2024.S1.SP188
(2023). Scopus. Breull-Arancibia, V., & Agud-Morell, I. Gender, affectivity and sexuality in primary education: case study of a Chilean program. Educate, 59 https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/educar.1582
(2023). Scopus. Agud-Morell, I. and Breull-Arancibia, V. Education and gender: experiences from feminist pedagogies in the field of education. Educate, 59 https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/educar.1702
(2021). González, A., Castillo, P., Breull, V., Hernández, C., Estrada, F., Espinoza, C. and Llobet, V. Guidelines for a rights claim mechanism in specialized protection. UNICEF Chile. Report published on the UNICEF Chile website: https://www.unicef.org/chile/informes/lineamiento-para-un-mecanismo-de-reclamaci%C3%B3n-de-derechos
Presentations
(2025). 1st Research and Collaboration Conference on Comprehensive Sexuality Education, CIAE University of Chile and ChilePuedeESI. Santiago, Chile, April 3 and 4, in person.
(2025). First Chilean Congress on Interdisciplinary Studies on Sexual and Gender Diversity, Alberto Hurtado University, Santiago, Chile, March 20-22, in person.
(2025). Seminar “Moving Towards a Courageous Education: Experiences and Initiatives to Promote Gender-Transformative Education”, Brave Girls FoundationSantiago, Chile, March 26, in person.
(2024). Seminar on Gender and Vocational Decisions: Challenges and Best Practices for Secondary Education, CIAE University of Chile and ComunidadMujer. Santiago, Chile, December 16, in person.
(2023). 12nd Seminar: “A Look at XNUMX Years of Progress and Challenges from a Psychosocial-Legal Perspective on Domestic Violence,” Pudahuel Domestic Violence Non-Violence Network and the Central University of Chile. Santiago, Chile, November, in person.
(2023). Gender and Education Seminar: The Importance of Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Classroom, Gender Equity and Equality Unit and the Department of Community Engagement and Continuing Education of the IPG Professional Institute. Santiago, Chile, June, online.
(2022). I° SexAFIN International Virtual Conference: (Re)thinking about comprehensive sexuality education from a child-centered and gendered perspective. Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, July 13 to 15, virtual.
Awarded contests
ANID National Doctorate Scholarship 2025
The National Doctoral Scholarship aims to financially support doctoral studies in all areas of knowledge, in programs accredited in accordance with Law No. 20.129 and taught by Chilean universities.
Participation in projects
Facilitators and barriers in the daily school experience of participating boys and girls in the School Integration Programs with disabilities diagnosed by FONDECYT No. 1211506 2021
Line of research: Politics, equity and difference in education, leadership and school improvement
Participating academics: Monica Pena, Alvaro Besoain, Soledad Concha and Nicolas Schongut
Student: Valeria Breull, research assistant
Project summary: This qualitative study aimed to understand and analyze the perspectives of students with motor and sensory disabilities participating in School Integration Programs (PIE) regarding the barriers and facilitators to inclusion in their daily school experiences.
Consultancy for the promotion and assurance of the participation of children and adolescents in specialized protection. Consultancy CLE-64/2020 UNICEF Chile 2020
Line of research: Politics, equity and difference in education, leadership and school improvement
Participating academics: Patricia Castillo, Claudia Hernández, Francisco Estrada, Valeria Llobet, and Alejandra González
Student: Valeria Breull, team coordinator
Project summary: This consultancy worked on developing guidelines for applying the principle of participation of children, adolescents, and their families in the context of specialized protection.
Institutionalized Childhood and Daily Life of Children in the Protection Residences of Santiago de Chile (1979-2000) FONDECYT N°1190150 2019
Program research line: Politics, equity and difference in education, leadership and school improvement
Participating academics: Patricia Castillo, Claudia Hernández, and Alejandra González
Student: Valeria Breull, technical staff
Project summary: This study sought to reconstruct and analyze the daily lives of institutionalized children in SENAME detention centers (1979-2000), identifying, in their discourses and practices, ways of singling out, participating in, responding to, or resisting institutional discourses.
Pedagogies and cultures of coexistence for comprehensive and inclusive training: simple measures for a complex reform FONDEF No. 15I10647 2025
Program research line: Teacher training and teacher professional development
Participating academics: Viviana Gómez, Isidora Mena, and Neva Milicic
Student: Valeria Breull, support professional
Project summary: Its objective was to design and implement a systemic intervention program that would create the conditions for comprehensive learning in six educational institutions in vulnerable contexts, located in the Metropolitan Region and the Araucanía Region.
Vulnerable youth as critical discourse analysts: a study of their own learning FONDECYT N°11130092 2013
Program research line: School teaching and learning
Participating academic: Monica Pena
Student: Valeria Breull, research assistant
Project summary: The objective was to analyze the concept of "learning" from a social and political perspective through the critical discursive analysis of texts (written and otherwise) produced by young people in public schools in Chile.
