Mercedes Chaves Jaime

Her work extended to early childhood education and cognitive stages for child development in read/write processes.

She was inspired by the work of the Soviet psychologist Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky, the founder of cultural-historical psychology.

Chaves was a proponent of the empty acts theory in children's learning processes.

In 1993 Chaves founded the Lev Vygotsky Research Center and Private School, located in Tunja.

From 1994 to 2004, Chaves was an academic in the field of child psychopedagogy, teaching at National Pedagogic and Technological University of Colombia.