Tenured Scholars
Ow, Maili
Associate Professor
She teaches Children's and Young Adult Literature at the undergraduate level and Literature Didactics at the master's level. She researches children's literature, reading skills, and language teaching; she specializes in education for death and international cooperation with development projects in Chad, Africa. She has participated in the development of public policies. Since 2017, she has been a DEMRE advisor for the Reading Proficiency Test.
Main areas of study: Education for death, Children's and young adult literature and reading training, International cooperation
Education
| Job title | Institution that grants it | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Doctor of Didactics of languages and literature | Complutense University of Madrid | 2004 |
| Bachelor of Education | Catholic University of Chile | 1995 |
| Spanish teacher | Catholic University of Chile | 1995 |
| Philosophy Teacher | Catholic University of Chile | 1994 |
Teaching and training of researchers
| Course name | Sigla |
|---|---|
| Children's Literature | EDU0425 |
| Children's and Youth Literature | EDU0361 |
| Books and literature for children | EDU0712 |
| Course name | Sigla |
|---|---|
| Disciplinary and Didactic Bases of the Teaching of Language and Literature | EDU3860-1 |
| Literature Didactics | EDU3865-1 |
| Year | Type | Name | Student |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | PhD in Education UC | Management: Realities and Challenges of Evaluating Literary Education in Secondary Education: A Case Study | Christian Donoso |
| 2016 | PhD University of Valladolid, Department of Linguistics | Orality and school text: oral tradition and its didactic treatment in Chilean school texts | Marcelo Cárdenas |
| 2014 | PhD in Education UC | Disciplinary paradigms that support grammar teaching for pre-service teachers and teacher trainers. Case studies at three Chilean universities. | Irsa Cisterns |
Research Projects
| Year | Type | Name | Role | See more |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | UC Public Policies | Towards a State Policy on Reading, Writing, and Orality: Lessons from 2006 to 2024 | Co-investigator | |
| 2023-2024 | Innova-Fosis | Readers' Trips | Director | |
| 2023-2025 | VRI Interdisciplina | Gender Equity Indicators in Feminized Careers: Case Study in Nursing, Social Work, Pedagogy, Nutrition and Dietetics | Co-investigator | |
| 2021-2023 | Pedagogy in Religion | DEAD. Didactic proposal of education for death. | Responsible Investigator | Go to projectlaunch |
| 2021-2022 | Interdisciplinary VRI | What do children and young people say about the pandemic? Narratives of the COVID-19 crisis in three different and distant contexts: Chile, Chad, United States. | Responsible Investigator |
Publications
Recent
Author
Year
Title
Magazine
Volume
Pages
DOI
Zamora, Guillermo, Ow, Maili, Lecaros, Catalina, Davanzo, Elisa
2025
'Are you feeling sad? Tell me about your sadness. Existential meanings of death and life in Chilean secondary schools
Teachers and Teaching
1-17
Ow González, M.; Makkai, I.
2025
Complexities and challenges of health education and promotion in a nomadic community in Chad
Lumen et Virtus (LEV)
XVI-XLIV
6381-6400
Ow González, M.; Catipillán, P.; Rojas-Sateler, F.
2025
Teachers on instagram: challenges and professional identity
Lumen et Virtus (LEV)
XVI-XLIV
7609-7630
OW González, M., Bernales, M., Barreda, RL, Cunto-Amesty, S., & García-Atance, JCC
2024
Voices of childhood in pandemic: Chad, Chile and USA. Analysis of multimodal narratives in distant educational contexts
Journal of Social and Environmental Management
18 (5)
1-19
Ow González Maili Solange, Gálvez Fredes Bárbara Tabita, Gutiérrez Morales Francisca Javiera
2024
Picture books and board games: conversations about death at school
Arts, Linguistics, Literature and Language Research Journal
4 (3)
1-17
Ow, Maili
2024
Literary reading on screen in Chilean secondary education: opportunities, access, and assessments
Pedagogical Studies Magazine
50
7-28
Zamora, G.; Ow, M.; Lecaros, C
2024
Are teachers willing to teach about death in Chile?
Complutense Journal of Education
35 (3)
541-551
Ow González Maili Solange, Montenegro Maggio Helena
2022
Institutional tensions and practices in addressing death in schools: a study of three cases in Chile
Pedagogical Studies
48 (4)
117-136
Zamora Poblete Guillermo Manuel, Inzulza González Mario, Lecaros Besa Catalina, Montenegro Maggio Helena, Ow González Maili
2022
How do Catholic religion teachers approach death education in Chile?
International Studies in Catholic Education
72-91
Books
Author
Year
Title
Editorial
DOI/Url
Ow González Maili Solange, Inzulza Mario.
2022
Where do those who die go? A proposal to talk about death with boys and girls through children's literature and biblical texts.
Future School Library, UC.
Ow González Maili Solange, López Barreda Rodrigo.
2021
Chad and Chile: words that cross borders
Own edition financed by the UC Vice-Rector for International Affairs.
Ow Gonzalez Maili Solange, Rojas Sateler Francisco, Catepillán Pablo, Cáceres Guzmán Andrea Natalia, Vásquez Ortiz Claudia Alejandra, Cifuentes Riquelme Javiera Belén, Baeza Abarca Constanza Javiera.
2020
math counts too
Future School Library, UC.
Book chapters
Author
Year
chapter title
Editors
Book Title
Pages
Editorial
DOI/Url
Ow Gonzalez Maili Solange, Ariane Faria Dos Santos, Catarina Ianni Segatto, Cox Donoso Cristian, Julia Marfán, Paula Louzano
2019
Different models of initial teacher training: an analysis of four pedagogy courses
André Lázaro and Miguel Thompson
The role of practice in the initial training of teachers
53-90
Santillana Foundation
Maili Ow González
2019
Representation of death in contemporary Chilean children's literature: analysis of works from 2010 to 2017
José Manuel De Amo and Pilar Núñez Delgado
Reading and Literary Education: New Ways of Reading in the Digital Age
117-126
Octahedron
Maili Ow González, Barbara Gálvez, Francisca Gutiérrez
2018
Deaths in contemporary Chilean children's literature: nature, intimate experiences, and sociopolitical facts
MINEDUC
What to read? How to read? Reading and inclusion
281-294
The beautiful editions
Policy Briefs
Author
Year
Title
Editorial
DOI/Url
Natalia Ávila Reyes, Gabriela Barra González, Alejandra Meneses Arévalo, Javiera Figueroa Miralles, Maili Ow González, and María Graciela Veas Ripoll
2023
READING, WRITING, AND COMMUNICATING TO LEARN: Essential Classroom Practices
MINEDUC
Maili Ow Gonzalez Angela Madrid
2018
Initial Teacher Training in 21st-Century Competencies and Pedagogies for Inclusion in Latin America. Comparative Analysis of Seven National Cases
OREALC-UNESCO
Commitment
Managerial Accounting
- Director of the Diploma in Management and Mediation in School Libraries – 07/03/2024 - as of today
- Director of the Department of Didactics, Faculty of Education – 31/07/2020 – 31/07/2023
- Director of the Diploma in Children's and Young Adult Literature: An Approach to Today's Readers – 01/03/2019 - as of today
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, Faculty of Education – 01/03/2012 – 31/01/2015
- Head of the Doctoral Program in Educational Sciences, Faculty of Education – 01/03/2008 – 31/07/2010
Social Impact
- Reading Comprehension Test Advisor, DEMRE, University of Chile, 2018-present
- Language Team Coordinator, Curriculum and Evaluation Unit, MINEDUC. 2015
Appearance in media
- Talking about dying with your children – Check here
- Board game will help address death in school settings – Check here
- Forging Agreements Letter to the Editor El Mostrador – Check here
- Multi-voice school curriculum: advances, opportunities, and challenges in Language and Literature (CIPER Opinion Column) – Check here
