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.
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Work
- Juan David Parra & Bent Edwards (2024) - Challenging the gold standard consensus: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and their pitfalls in evidence-based education - 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 - 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"
- 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 - doi: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2022.102579 - [link]
- Juan David Parra (2022) - Book Review: Recentralisation in Colombia by Julián D. López-Murcia
- Juan David Parra (2021) - El pensamiento de sistemas; una ruta hacia el liderazgo y la transformación educativa
- 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
- Juan David Parra (2021) - Sobre el uso de la evidencia y la validez externa en la evaluación de intervenciones sociales: una mirada crítica
