Karina Bustamante Pahuara

Language Teacher

Karina Bustamante Pahuara is a language educator and educational consultant with more than twenty years of experience in international education. Her expertise includes IB inquiry-based pedagogy, concept-based curriculum design, bilingual education and world language instruction, with a focus on student agency and meaningful learning, and she works to reimagine world language classrooms to promote international-mindedness, intercultural understanding and global citizenship while honouring local culture and identity. She has taught languages in New York and Dubai and teaches at Repton School Dubai, and she is an educational consultant for Difusión in Spain and Klett World Languages in the United States, working on curriculum development, teacher training and language-learning resources. She presents regularly at international conferences. She holds a master’s degree in Spanish as a foreign language from the University of Barcelona, together with a certificate in language program management and a TESOL certificate from Columbia University.