dr. JD (Juan David) Parra Heredia, MA

Biography

My area of focus for research and teaching lies in the intersection of social ontology (which includes exploring the ontology of critical realism and its implications in the social sciences) and international political economy. I delve into education policy, governance analysis, and applied realist evaluation. Additionally, I have published reflections on qualitative research methodologies.

I hold a PhD in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies at EUR and a Master's in Economics from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia.

International Institute of Social Studies

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Email: parraheredia@iss.nl

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Work

Juan David Parra (2024) - Book Review: Translating global ideas: how policy legacies and domestic politics shape education governance in latin america by Claudia Díaz-Ríos, New York, State University of New York Press, 2024 - Journal of Education Policy, 39 (6), 1049-1050 - doi: 10.1080/02680939.2024.2395676
Juan David Parra (2024) - Book review: Leadership from the Middle: The Beating Heart of Educational Transformation by Andy Hargreaves - Comparative Education Review, 68 (3), 513-515 - doi: 10.1086/730980
Juan David Parra & Bent Edwards (2024) - Challenging the gold standard consensus: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and their pitfalls in evidence-based education - Critical Studies in Education, 65 (5), 513-530 - doi: 10.1080/17508487.2024.2314118 - [link]
Juan David Parra (2023) - Qualitative economics and the opportunity to push for heterodoxy in the classroom - doi: 10.4324/9781003451990-11 - [link]
Juan David Parra (2023) - Realist evaluation and its role in the stages of explanatory research based on critical realism - Journal of Critical Realism, 22 (5), 859-881 - doi: 10.1080/14767430.2023.2251816 - [link]
Juan David Parra & Camilo Vieira (2023) - El pensamiento de diseño la evaluación de políticas e intervenciones sociales: hacia un diálogo "realista" - Desafíos
Juan David Parra & Brent Edwards (2023) - Systems, complexity and realist evaluation: reflections from a large-scale education policy evaluation in Colombia. - doi: 10.4337/9781802205930.00021
Juan David Parra (2022) - Decentralisation and school-based management in Colombia: An exploration (using systems thinking) of the Full‐Day Schooling programme - International Journal of Educational Development, 91 (102579) - doi: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2022.102579 - [link]
Juan David Parra (2022) - Book Review: Recentralisation in Colombia by Julián D. López-Murcia - LSE Book Reviews
Juan David Parra (2021) - El pensamiento de sistemas; una ruta hacia el liderazgo y la transformación educativa - Zona Próxima
Juan David Parra, Elías Said-Hung & Juny Montoya-Vargas (2021) - (Re)introducing critical realism as a paradigm to inform qualitative content analysis in causal educational research - International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 34 (2)
Juan David Parra (2021) - Sobre el uso de la evidencia y la validez externa en la evaluación de intervenciones sociales: una mirada crítica - Colombia Internacional, 105
Juan David Parra, Carmen Ricardo, Mónica Borjas & Jorge Valencia (2020) - Potencial de la educación a distancia para reducir brechas de aprendizaje en educación superior: Una mirada al caso colombiano - American Journal of Distance Education, 34 (2) - doi: 10.1080/08923647.2020.1756024
Juan David Parra (2020) - Sobre la (im)posibilidad del orden social espontáneo como mecanismo rector de las sociedades de mercado - Economía & Región, 14 (1) - [link]
Juan David Parra & Carola Hernández (2019) - Classroom observation in context: an exploratory study in secondary schools from Northern Colombia - Revista Brasileira de Educacao, 24
Juan David Parra (2019) - El arte del muestreo cualitativo y su importancia para la evaluación y la investigación de políticas públicas: una aproximación realista - Revista Opera, 25 (Julion-Diciembre)
Juan David Parra (2019) - "El mercado" y la frágil retórica libertaria - Economía & Región, 13 (1) - [link]
Juan David Parra & Gustavo Correa (2019) - Historia reciente de la educación básica y media en el caribe colombiano: el caso del Departamento de Atlántico - Revista historia de la educación latinoamericana

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Juan David Parra Heredia (2024) - The school improvement maze. A multi-level analysis of educational reform in Catalonia (Examiner)
Activity: Examination › Academic
Benjamin Radley, Juan David Parra Heredia, C Embido Bejeno, Wendy Harcourt, Christina Sathyamala, E Smidt, T Soukotta & Yazid Zahda (2015) - Development (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic

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