Ingrid LAJARA

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Ingrid Lajara is a professor in charge of Spanish language management at Kedge Business School. She graduated from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) where she obtained a B.A. in Modern Literature; then, she continued her studies in France where she received a master’s degree in Latin American Studies, a DESS de Coopération Linguistique et Éducative from the Université d'Aix-en-Provence I and another M.A. in Aire Culturelle Romane- Spécialité Recherche en Etudes Latino-Américaines at the Faculté des Arts, Lettres, Langues et Sciences Humaines Aix Marseille Université. She began her first steps as a university lecturer at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, then continued in Spain with courses at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and finally, in France, at the Université d’Aix-Marseille in different faculties as the faculty of Modern Literature, the faculty of economics and as a lecturer in Hispanic languages and civilization at Sciences Po Aix. Her areas of research and work at Kedge include: - Educational cooperation: she started her higher education career by carrying out various university projects between Spain and France. - The implementation of project-based “learn-by-doing” pedagogy for about 10 years. This experience reinforces the idea that learning must be student-centered and that only student involvement and personal work lead to effective and conscious learning. - Digital pedagogy, which stems from project-based learning, leaves the teacher as a guide and facilitator in the learning process, leading to reverse pedagogy. However common, digital and flipped pedagogy responds to a concern for corporate social responsibility: the dematerialization of course materials responds to the principle of sustainable development. - Latin American studies are also one of her favorite fields: politics, geopolitics, peoples and cultures, spaces, territories and their interactions are an ideal terrain for the continuous work on countries and societies. Learning, curiosity, exchange, and passing along knowledge are the driving force of her work.

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