Aldo Anzures, PhD
Aldo Anzures is head of school systems design for the early and primary years at International Baccalaureate (IB), where he works at the intersection of curriculum, assessment, pedagogy, and community engagement. His work focuses on designing education systems that can operate meaningfully across diverse cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic contexts, with particular attention to how schools translate IB’s global frameworks into everyday practice. Trained as an ethnographer of education, his academic work centers on Indigenous early childhood education in Latin America, with a focus on how policies framed around quality and inclusion are taken up, reshaped, or resisted by teachers, families, and communities. His book Bureaucracies and Language Policy in Indigenous Early Childhood Education: Promises, Practice, and the Work of Schooling in Mexico is forthcoming with De Gruyter Mouton in 2027.
Courses Taught
Whose Knowledge Counts? Decoloniality, Language, and Indigenous Education in Global Systems
Select Publications
Anzures Tapia, A. (2026). Tourism as language displacement in Indigenous early childhood education in the Yucatan Peninsula. Ethnography and Education, 1鈥�18.
Anzures Tapia, A. (2025). Bureaucratizing Maya: The institutionalization of non-speakerhood in Indigenous early childhood education. Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 24(6), 1299鈥�1315.
Anzures Tapia, A., & Hornberger, N. H. (2024). Maya children doing language policy: Tracing spaces. In N. Mart铆nez-Le贸n, A. And煤gar, & B. Cortina-P茅rez (Eds.), Multilingual pedagogies for early years: Theoretical insights and innovative approaches (pp. 265鈥�290). Peter Lang.
Anzures Tapia, A., & Kvietok, F. (2023). Authorities at play in Indigenous language reclamation: Tensions and possibilities in the Yucatan Peninsula. International Journal of the Sociology of Language.
Anzures Tapia, A. (2020). Cultures of accountability in Indigenous early childhood education in Mexico. Educa莽茫o & Realidade, 45(2).
Anzures Tapia, A. (2020). Chronicles of a shitty ethnography. Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 35, 128鈥�133.
Hornberger, N. H., Anzures Tapia, A., Hanks, D., Due帽as, F., & Lee, S. (2020). Ethnography of language planning and policy. Language Teaching, 53(2), 152鈥�186.
Anzures Tapia, A. (2020). Snapshots of Yucatec Maya language practices: Language policy and planning activities in the Yucatan Peninsula. Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 32(1).
Selected Presentations
Anzures Tapia, A. (2023). Bureaucratizing Maya: The institutionalization of non-speakerhood in Indigenous early childhood education [Conference presentation]. Panel: Policies and practices of sociolinguistic 鈥済roupness鈥�: Reflections from ethnographic engagement with schools and families, 9th Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication, University College London, London, UK.
Anzures Tapia, A. (2023). Indigenous education for an inclusive future [Conference presentation]. IB Global Conference, Adelaide, Australia & Toronto, Canada.
Anzures Tapia, A. (2020). Globalizing and localizing language negotiations: Successes, promises and challenges [Conference presentation]. Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Anzures Tapia, A. (2019). Una visi贸n etnogr谩fica sobre planificaci贸n ling眉铆stica en la educaci贸n preescolar ind铆gena en Quintana Roo [Conference presentation]. VII Simposio sobre Pol铆tica del Lenguaje, Mexico City, Mexico.
Anzures Tapia, A. (2019). Opportunities and challenges of language planning in Indigenous early childhood education in Mexico [Conference presentation]. Comparative and International Education Society Conference, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Anzures Tapia, A. (2018). Linguistic crossroads: A case of early childhood education in the Yucatan Peninsula [Conference presentation]. Comparative and International Education Society Conference, Mexico City, Mexico.
Anzures Tapia, A. (2018). Remapping and reimagining the field: Identities, race, and place in international educational development: An interactive roundtable [Roundtable presentation]. Comparative and International Education Society Conference, Mexico City, Mexico. Anzures Tapia, A. (2017). La arqueolog铆a es la excusa; la reclamaci贸n de la lengua el objetivo [Conference presentation]. International Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Research Interests
- Early childhood education in global and contextually diverse systems
- Indigenous education and language policy in the early years
- Bureaucratic processes and their effects on educational practice
- Cross-sector partnerships (governments, NGOs, international organizations) in early childhood systems
- The translation of global frameworks into local practice
Education
- PhD, Educational Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
- MA, International Educational Development, Columbia University
- BS, Psychology, National Autonomous University of Mexico
