Autor: Maren Elfert

Maren Elfert is Senior Lecturer in International Education in the School of Education, Communication & Society at King’s College London. She holds a Ph D from the University of British Columbia. She is author of the book UNESCO’s utopia of lifelong learning: An intellectual history, and she has published on the history of international organizations in relation to education for development, literacy, and adult education and lifelong learning policy. She is submissions editor of the International Review of Education and member of the editorial board of Comparative Education. Christian Ydesen is a professor at Aalborg University, Denmark and an Honorary Research Fellow at Oxford University, UK. He has recently completed the research projects ‘The Global History of the OECD in education’ funded by the Aalborg University talent programme and „Education Access under the Reign of Testing and Inclusion’ funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Edinburgh, UK (2008-2009, 2016), the University of Birmingham, UK (2013), the University of Oxford, UK (2019), and the University of Milan, Italy (2021). He has published several articles on topics such as educational testing, international organisations, accountability, educational psychology and diversity in education from historical and international perspectives. He currently serves as an executive editor of the European Educational Research Journal.