Tenured Scholars
Medina, Lorraine
Titular Professor
Principal Investigator at the Cape Horn International Center for Global Change Studies and Biocultural Conservation, ANID PIA/BASAL PFB210018, CHIC. She was Deputy Director of CHIC from 2022 to 2025. She served as Dean of the Faculty of Education (2015-2021). She was founder and general coordinator of the Latin American Network of Deans of Education (2021-2023) and is a member of the board of the Global Network of Deans of Education.
Main areas of study: Public policies and teacher training; Classroom interactions and communicative conditions for learning; Dialogic analysis of discourse in educational contexts; Education for biocultural conservation.
Education
| Job title | Institution that grants it | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Doctor in Psychology of Learning and Instruction | Autonomous University of Madrid | 2006 |
| Master in Linguistics | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile | 1994 |
| Bachelor of Arts, with a mention in Spanish | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile | 1992 |
| Secondary Education Spanish Teacher | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile | 1991 |
Research Projects
| Year | Type | Name | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-2026 | Basal Center of Excellence in Science | Cape Horn International Center for Global Change Studies and Biocultural Conservation (CHIC). | Principal Investigator and Alternate Director (2022-2025) |
| 2021-2022 | Study funded by Siemens Stiftung | Challenges and projections of the Initial Teacher Training in Universities of the Network of Deans and Deans of Faculties of Education in Latin America. | Responsible Investigator |
| 2015-2017 | Regular Fund | Communicative conditions for learning in Language and Mathematics: languages and voices of students and teachers in 5th grade classrooms. | Responsible Investigator |
| 2015-2016 | british academy | Evidence-based programs to support the development of dialogue and self-regulation in early years: Building the foundation for comparative research. | Associate Researcher |
Publications
Recent
Author
Year
Title
Magazine
Theft
Pages
DOI
Salas, M., Medina, L., & López, D.
2024
Mentoring from mentors and mentees. A systematic literature review.
Teachers. Journal of Curriculum and Teacher Training
28 (2)
89-110
Yuivar, A. and Medina, L.
2024
Interactions in Literature Class. Dialogic Constructions? A Case Study in Chilean Secondary Schools.
Literature and linguistics
49
407-431
Mara Silva Hope, Ana Luisa Muñoz Garcia & Lorena Medina Morales
2024
Unmothering the Conversation on Gender in Academia
Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education
Ojeda-Lopeda, P. C. and Medina-Morales, L.
2024
Coup d’état in Chile: perspectives and interactions in history class.
Colombian Magazine of Education
(91)
76-98
Flávia Mendes de Andrade E Peres, Medina Morales Lorena Pia
2023
Memories and artifacts for biocultural conservation in territories: reflections on educational processes.
ARTEFACTUM
22 (1)
Flávia Mendes de Andrade E Peres, Medina Morales Lorena Pia
2023
When bodies follow paths: Reflections on biocultural memory and community practices for biological and cultural diversity.
Cocar Magazine
19 (37)
1-21
Medina, L. Alvarado, C., Ojeda, P. Mansilla, F. Ortiz, D. and Llanos, T.
2023
Communicative conditions to learn. What do the students say?
Magis. International Journal of Research in Education.
16
1-26
Medina, L.
2022
No compensatory policies, no "leveling the playing field." Towards educational justice for Latin America.
Institutional Magazine | UPB
60 (160)
177-194
Salas, M., Díaz, A. and Medina, L.
2021
Mentoring in Chile: from the designed policy to its implementation.
Mexican Journal of Educational Research
26 (89)
Medina, L. and Rozzi, R.
2021
Maturana and Education as a daily experience. multivocal and transformative
public studies
163
173-183
Books
Author
Year
Title
Editorial
DOI/Url
Moreira, T. and Medina, L.,
2009
I accompany you while you write. Guide to produce, review and improve a text.
UC editions
Book chapters
Author
Year
chapter title
Editors
Book Title
Pages
Editorial
DOI/Url
Alvarado-Vargas, C., Medina-Morales, L.
2024
What makes a good teacher? Redefining the standards of teacher quality through the voices of fifth-grade students in Chile.
Millan, E.
Amplifying students' and teachers' voices in educational research
(In press)
Vernon Press
Medina, L. and Salas, M.
2021
Towards a sustained teaching career path. Contributions from the revisited mentorships.
Sanchez, I.
Ideas in Education III. Evolution of a reform.
UC editions
Trevino, E.; Sure, M.; Medina, L.
2021
Pontificia Universidad Católica Support for the School System During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Chile
Reimers, F. and Marmolejo, FJ; editors
University and School Collaborations during a Pandemic
57-68
Springer
Medina, L.
2018
Almost 2 years after the enactment of Law 20.903: advances, tensions, and challenges of the teacher professional development system.
Sánchez, I. (Ed.) Santiago
Ideas in Education II. Definitions in times of change.
UC editions
Medina, L.
2016
Speaking, people also understand what they read' The orality-writing relationship in classroom practices for reading comprehension and learning disciplines
Manzi, J.
Opening the classroom doors. Transformation of teaching practices, Santiago, Ediciones UC.
221-261
UC editions
Reports
Author
Year
Title
Editorial
DOI/Url
Medina, L. (Responsible Investigator); Villalon, M.; Saint Martin, E.; Martinic, S.; Meneses, A.; Forster, C.; Muller, M.
2011
LITERACY IN SUBSIDIZED CHILEAN ESTABLISHMENTS.
Mineduc
CIAE, U. of Chile
2010-2011
Standards in Language and Communication for the Initial Training of High School Teachers
CPEIP
Associate Researcher
Teaching and training of researchers
| Course name | Sigla |
|---|---|
| Adolescent Development and Learning | EDU0160 |
| Research Seminar on Secondary Education | EDU0207 |
| Orality and Infant Semiotic Development | LET002B |
| Language Didactics I | EDU0170 |
| Language Didactics II | EDU0190 |
| Course name | Sigla |
|---|---|
| Discourse Analysis in Educational Contexts | EDU4034 |
| THESIS I | EDU4207 |
| THESIS II | EDU4208 |
| THESIS III | EDU4209 |
| THESIS IV | EDU4210 |
| Thesis Project I | EDU4224 |
| Thesis Project II | EDU4225 |
| Research Practices | EDU4030 |
| Candidacy Examination | EDU4205 |
| Directed Study II | EDU4037 |
| Year | Type | Name | Student |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | PhD in Education UC | Discursive constructions around mentoring in the Chilean educational system: towards an understanding of the mentoring process in context. | Macarena Salas |
| 2022 | PhD in Education UC | Discursive interactions and development of historical argumentation in 3rd grade history classes: a dialogic look. | Pablo Ojeda |
| 2020 | PhD in Education UC | Reading comprehension of literary texts: classroom interactions for the development of critical and active readers. | Ana Maria Yuivar |
| 2018 | PhD in Education UC | The social construction of the reading subject. A case study on discursive subjectivity in different social contexts. | Valeria Quiroz |
| 2018 | PhD in Education UC | The argumentation and positioning on socio-scientific topics in fifth and seventh grade students of a Chilean municipal school: a discursive description from dialogicity. | Mariana Beltrao |
Commitment
Management Responsibilities at the Faculty or University
2015-2021/2023-present: Member of the Board of Directors of the UC Rural Life Foundation, Vice-Rectorate of Institutional Management.
2023- present: Ambassador, UC Innovation and Transfer Ambassadors Network. VRI
2022-present: Co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of ELEDUC UC, Directorate of Inclusion
2021 - Present: Member of the Advisory Council of the Student Affairs Directorate (DAE) of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
2020-2021: Member of the Committee of Related Persons, General Secretariat of the UC.
2019-2020: Member of the UC Forum, Senior Management.
2015-2021: Dean of the Faculty of Education.
2010-2011: Vice Dean of the UC Faculty of Education.
Social Impact
2021 – present: Global Network of Deans of Education Directory.
2018 – present: Member of the Board of Directors of Elige Educar;
