About the presentation: What makes a teacher an expert? And how do we come to recognize and value expertise in teaching? This lecture explores how teacher expertise is constructed through different ways of seeing teachers and teaching. Drawing on research in low-income schools, teacher beliefs, public perceptions of teachers in Argentina, and international educational discourses, it examines how ideas of the “expert teacher” are shaped by local histories, social inequalities, professional cultures, and global agendas. The Argentine case serves not simply as a context, but as a point of departure for questioning universal assumptions about expertise and exploring what a situated understanding of teaching might reveal about education in Latin America.
About the presenter: Ezequiel Gomez Caride is Dean of the School of Education and Associate Professor at Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina. He holds a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, as well as degrees in Educational Sciences and Primary Education from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina. His research focuses on green citizenship, teacher professionalism and beliefs, expert teachers, and the governance of education systems, integrating curriculum theory with comparative and policy-oriented perspectives. He has received Fulbright, Weinstein Distinguished Graduate, and CONICET fellowships, and has conducted postdoctoral research at Aalborg University, Denmark. His work has been published in Critical Studies in Education, Comparative Education Review, International Journal of Inclusive Education, and International Journal of Educational Development, and he is co-author of Educational Assessment and Inclusive Education (2023).