Marta Comas Sàbat is a social educator, anthropologist and sociologist, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (until 2024) and head of the Knowledge and Strategy Unit at the Barcelona Education Consortium. Promoter of the associative group ‘Parem la taula’ for a critical teaching practice committed to education as a common good. For the past 20 years, she has worked at the Barcelona Education Consortium as the head of programmes for educational innovation, teacher training and, more recently, the evaluation of educational policies, and the development of studies and indicators for the system.
His research topics (initially as part of the Jaume Bofill Foundation team) have included young people at risk of exclusion and violence, the Roma community, unaccompanied migrant minors, cultural identity and diversity, and intercultural education. More recently, she has specialised in democracy in schools, family participation and collective action for the improvement of educational policies, the subject of her doctoral thesis entitled: ‘The Voice of Families in the Educational System.’ A Commitment to the Common Good or a Strategy of Closure?’
Currently, in a context where 22% of pupils in Barcelona are of foreign origin, research and advisory work on interculturality in schools is being carried out, updating the 1990s frameworks from a decolonial and anti-racist paradigm and contributing diverse voices to the public debate through a collective project. ‘When the songs from home don’t sound in school.’
Twitter: @mcomass1965
Globalisation, Education and Social Policies 