Miranda Riquelme, Catalina
PhD student, admission 2022
Nationality: Chilean
Education: Graduate in Political Science, UC; Master in Sociology, UC.
Introduction: Catalina Miranda is a Political Scientist with a Master's in Sociology. She is interested in adolescent political involvement, gender attitudes, and educational inequality. Since 2017 she has collaborated on projects to promote the gender perspective in social and educational studies.
About my thesis
Thesis: Understanding gender attitudes in adolescents: A mediation analysis on the effect of civic attitudes and expectations of political participation in school.
Project description: The project seeks to identify the gender attitudes presented by adolescents in Chile, and with this, to study the relationship between these attitudes and the political involvement of the students.
Director: Ernesto Trevino Villarreal
Line of research: Politics, equity and difference in education, leadership and school improvement
Publications and Presentations
Publications
- Scopus. Narea, M., Treviño, E., Caqueo-Urizar, A., Miranda, C., & Gutiérrez, J. (2022). Understanding the relationship between preschool teachers' well-being, Interaction quality and students' well-being. Child Indicators Research, 15, 533-551. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-021-09876-3
- Miranda, D., Castillo, JC, Miranda, C., & Conejeros, JD (2022). Trust in political institutions and support for authoritarianism: Latin American students – Does civic knowledge make a difference? In A. Weinberg (Ed.), Psychology of democracy: of the People, By the People, For the People (pp. 173-194). New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Scopus. Treviño, E., Miranda, C., Hernández, M., & Villalobos, C. (2021). Socioeconomic status, parental involvement and implications for subjective well-being during the global pandemic of Covid-19. Frontiers in Education. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.762780
- Latindex. Treviño, E., Miranda, C., Hernández, M. and Villalobos, C. (2021). Social class and parental strategies to support students in a pandemic. Results for Chile of the International COVID-19 Impact on Parental Engagement Study. Ibero-American Magazine of Education, 88(1), 117-133. https://doi.org/10.35362/rie8614449
- Scopus. Osorio-Saez, E., Eryilmaz, N., Sandoval Hernandez, A., Lau, YY, Barahona, E., Anwar-Bhatti, A., Caesar-Ofoe, g., et al. (2021). Survey data on the impact of COVID-19 on parental engagement across 23 countries. Data in Brief 35(1), 1-18, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.106813
- Treviño, E. and Miranda, C. (2021). The challenge of training young citizens in the Chilean school. In C. Villalobos, MJ Morel and E. Treviño (Eds..), Citizenship, education and youth. Research and debates for the Chile of the future (pp. 319-349). Santiago, Chile: UC Editions.
- Miranda, D., Miranda, C., & Muñoz, L. (2021). Latin American political culture and citizenship norms. In E. Trevino, D. Carrasco, E. Claes, & K. Kennedy (Eds.), Good citizenship around the World. Using IEA ICCS data to understand the next generation of citizens (pp. 89-105). Netherlands: Springer Open.
- Miranda, C. and Muñoz, L. (2021). Forms of political participation of women in Chile: the performative and political use of the body. In C. Stamm and C. Biskupovic (Eds.), Participatory experiences in Chile today (pp. 87-109). Santiago, Chile: RIL-IEUT UC.
Presentations
- Highlighted Session: Contesting citizenship's framings: Interrogations of the global-local and implications for formal citizenship education. Comparative & International Education Society (CIES), Minneapolis, April 25 to May 2, 2022 [online].
- Latin American's political culture and citizenship norms. In Comparative & International Education Society (CIES), Miami, March 22-26, 2020 [online].
- Trust in political institutions and support for authoritarianism in Latin American students: Does civic knowledge make a difference? In the 5th Interdisciplinary Congress of Research in Education (CIIE), city of Santiago, August 20, 21 and 22, 2019 [in person].
- Differential item functioning from ICCS data. At the First National Meeting of Social Research Methods and Techniques (ACCME), city of Rancagua, April 8 and 9, 2019. O'Higgins University. Poster [in person].
- Educational achievement through academic culture: An unequal scenario in Chilean students. In V International Seminar on Inequality and Social Mobility in Latin America, Santiago city, May 6 and 8, 2019. Universidad de Chile [in person].
- Development, Education and Postmaterial Issues: A multilevel look at levels of acceptance of homosexuality in 39 countries. In the 10th Chilean congress of sociology pre-wings Iquique 2018, Sociology Without Borders, city of Iquique, December 10 to 14, 2018, Arturo Prat University [in person].
- Student representation as a space for training Learning from the work of Student Affairs. Representing the UC University Youth Observatory at the I International Congress of Student Affairs, city of Bogotá, October 23 to 25, 2017, Department of Continuing Education: Academic Vice-Rector, Universidad de Los Andes [in person].
- Terrorism: the problems of lack of definition. In IX National Congress of Political Science Students Advancing towards decentralization: challenges and national and continental context, city of Santiago de Chile, November 21 and 22, 2016, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile [in person].
Participation in projects
Cape Horn International Center for Global Change Studies and Biocultural Conservation (CHIC), 2022
Line of research: Politics, equity and difference in education, leadership and school improvement
Academics: Ernesto Trevino
Student: Catalina Miranda, Research Assistant
Project summary: It is a center, with a biocultural and transdisciplinary approach that integrates scientific research, ethics and education
Educational Inequalities in Latin America, 2022
Line of research: Politics, equity and difference in education, leadership and school improvement
Academic: Ernesto Trevino
Student: Catalina Miranda – Coordinator
Project researchers: Carolina Castillo, Aline Vineses, Diego Carrasco and Cristóbal Villalobos.
Project summary: Inquire about educational inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and the factors associated with their reproduction.
