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After this, Schmelkes started working on values education and
Intercultural Education, becoming General Coordinator of Intercultural and Bilingual Education at the Secretariat of Public Education under Mexican President
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Comenius Medal (2008), Tlamatini Award (2003), Maria
Lavalle Urbina Award (1998), honorary PhD from Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Mexico, honorary Doctor of Law from the Universito of Concordia in
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M A. Cecilia Fierro Evans & Flavio Rojo Pons. 2012. An
Intercultural Education for Mexico: Career and Contributions of Sylvia Schmelkes. Curriculum Inquiry Vol. 42, Iss. 1, 2012
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La educación de adultos y las cuestiones sociales, Centro de
Cooperación Regional para la Educación de Adultos en América Latina y el Caribe, 2008
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education. In 1994 she left the CEE to work as a consultant in the
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