Tenured Scholars
Zamora, William
Associate professor
He is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Policy at the Faculty of Education of the Catholic University. He is a professor of Philosophy; Master and Doctor in Education from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
Main areas of study: Education about death; Exercise of pedagogical authority in critical contexts; Conditions of decline in contemporary schooling
Education
| Job title | Institution that grants it | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Philosophy Professor | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile | 1990 |
| Master of Education | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile | 1996 |
| PhD in Education | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile | 2006 |
Research Projects
| Year | Type | Project | Role | See more |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-2027 | FONDECYT Regular No. 1240686 | Dynamics of the exercise and recognition of pedagogical authority in contemporary secondary education. Difficulties, tensions, and achievements in different socio-educational contexts. | Principal Investigator | |
| 2023-2024 | VRI- Religion Pedagogy Program. UC | How do Catholic Religion Teachers experience and address the challenge of building pedagogical authority in today's education? | Principal Investigator | |
| 2022-2023 | Vice President for International Affairs | What do we learn about life when death comes to school? Toward an understanding of the meanings of life that young people make when faced with the death of a member of the school community. | Principal Investigator | Go to projectlaunch |
| 2020-2021 | UC Vice-Rectorate for Research | How is death addressed in school? Pedagogical practices, knowledge, and experiences of secondary school students and teachers | Principal Investigator | Go to projectlaunch |
Publications
Recent
Author
Year
Title
Magazine
Volume
Pages
DOI
Zamora, G; Ow, M.; Lecaros, C.
2023
Are teachers willing to teach about death in Chile?
Complutense Journal of Education
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Sacco, A., Zamora, G.
2023
A study of the motivations to leave a professorship in Chile
Education & Society
14
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Zamora, G., Inzulza, M., Lecaros, C., Montenegro, H., Ow, M
2022
How do Catholic religion teachers approach death education in Chile?
International Studies in Catholic Education
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Cox-Vial, M. del P., Sabat-Donoso, GB, Zamora-Poblete, G. & Meza-Pardo, M
2022
Beginning teachers: strategies to establish a relationship of pedagogical authority
Magis, International Journal of Research in Education
15
1-22
Mendez, L; Zamora, G.; Gil, P; Perez, J.; Saez, M.
2020
Cross-national dataset from Chile, Spain, Venezuela and Colombia to analyze the meanings students attribute to the pedagogical authority of teachers
Data in brief
30
105655
Gil, P; Mendez, L; Perez, J.; Saez, M. Zamora, G.
2020
Scale of Pedagogical Authority Meanings in the classroom (ESAPA) for Ibero-America built on the opinions of teaching students
Teaching and teacher education
93
103079
Zamora, G.; Gil, P. Mendez, L, Galvis, P; Thaddeus, J.
2020
Meanings and beliefs about the Pedagogical Authority in teachers in training. Comparative analysis between Spain, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela
Culture & Education
32
242-271
Zamora, G., Meza, M & Cox, P.
2020
How recognized as an authority do beginning teachers feel and to what factors do they attribute this?
Education and Research
46
1-19
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Meza, M.; Zamora, G. & Cox, V.
2020
Construction and exercise of pedagogical authority: seven theses from the perspective of Chilean teachers. Interdisciplinary
Journal of Psychology and Related Sciences
37 (1)
237-257
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- Zamora, G.; Meza,M. & Cox, P.
2018
Beginning teachers of Secondary Education in Chile. Despite the difficulties, what makes you stay as teachers?
Educational profiles
Vol. XI., No. 160
29-46
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Book chapters
Author
Year
chapter title
Editors
Book Title
Pages
Editorial
DOI/Url
Zamora, G.
2023
What do school stairs teach?
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Build and inhabit the school
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UC editions
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Zamora, G.
2021
From economic scarcity to educational abundance: a challenge for the Chilean school system
Jose Iturra Lastra
To row!
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Spore
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Zamora, G.; Alfaro, J.
2020
Understanding the Pedagogical Authority within the framework of the representation of the teaching role in beginning teachers
Jorge Ferrada
Poetics of the south of the world. Contemporary stories about education, aesthetics and art
17-30
University of Los Lagos
Zamora, G.; Meza, M.; Cox, P.
2019
Pedagogical authority and construction of favorable environments for learning.
Alejandro Carrasco
From reform to transformation: capacities, innovations and regulation of Chilean education
153-169
UC editions
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Zamora, G.; Meza, M.; Cox, P.
2019
Why do Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds Acknowledge a Superior Authority in History Teachers? Three Interpretive Hypotheses
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Education & Poverty
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Teaching and training of researchers
| Course name | Sigla |
|---|---|
| Educational Theory | EDU0311 |
| Education and Society | EDU0165 |
| Education, Culture and Society | EDU0314 |
| Course name | Sigla |
|---|---|
| Seminar Multidisciplinary analysis of education | EDU3650 |
| Year | Type | Name | Student |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Compendium | Career trajectories of beginning teachers. An approach to permanence in schools with a high vulnerability index. | Alessandra Díaz |
| 2012 | Thesis | The management of technical pedagogical supervision in Chilean educational establishments: characterization and typification based on FOGES records | Gustavo González |
Commitment
Management Responsibilities at the Faculty or University
2020 - present: Member of the Research Ethics Committee. CEC. UC.
2019 - present: Member of the UC Pastoral Academic Council.
Social Impact
2021: Professor of Philosophy of III° and IV° EM Polyvalent High School 133. Lo Espejo.
2016: Professor of Philosophy of IV° EMLiceo Valentín Letelier. Recollect.
