Emilia Beatriz María Ferreiro Schiavi (5 May 1937 – 26 August 2023) was an Argentine psychologist, writer, and educator, based in Mexico, with a doctorate from the University of Geneva, under the guidance of Jean Piaget.

[1] In 1970, after training in psychology at the University of Buenos Aires, she studied at the University of Geneva, where she also worked as a research assistant and collaborator with Hermine Sinclair, Bärbel Inhelder and Jean Piaget, and obtained her doctorate under the supervision and guidance of the Swiss psychologist.

In 1977, after the coup d'état in Argentina, she went to live in exile, in Switzerland, studying at the University of Geneva.

[1] Later, she began with Margarita Gómez Palacio a study in Monterrey with children with learning difficulties.

[5] In 1979 she went to live in Mexico City with her husband, the physicist and epistemologist Rolando García, with whom she had two children.