Alejandro Farieta-Barrera
CASE Occasional Researcher
Biography
Alejandro recently finished his PhD in International Education and Development at the University of Sussex. His dissertation is an impact evaluation of new policies for teacher education courses in Colombia that emerged during the peace negotiations in 2014. The impact evaluation adopts a critical realist approach, focusing not only on the success of the reforms but also on the various mechanisms, tensions, and challenges involved in implementing the new policies. He follows a mixed-methods approach, combining a difference-in-differences statistical technique with fieldwork with key actors in implementing the reforms. Over the course of 12 years, he served as a lecturer in education and philosophy at the Pedagogic University of Colombia, where he taught courses on research methods in education, philosophy of education, and the history and philosophy of the social sciences. He has expertise in quantitative and qualitative methods for policy and impact evaluation.
Alejandro Farieta-Barrera's current research interests are:
- Structural inequalities
- Children’s and students’ outcomes
- Quantitative methods
- Qualitative methods
- Policy and impact evaluation
Alejandro's latest projects include:
