
Marianne A. LarsenWestern University | UWO · Faculty of Education
Marianne A. Larsen
PhD
Trustee, Thames Valley District School Board
President, Johansen Larsen Foundation
Professor Emerita, Western University
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Introduction
Dr. Larsen's areas of teaching and research include comparative and international education; internationalization, international service learning (ISL) and global citizenship education. Her 2016 book is entitled Internationalization of Higher Education: An Analysis through Spatial, Network and Mobilities Theories. Her research on international service learning has led to a number of journal publications, as well as the edited book International Service Learning: Engaging Host Communities.
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July 2005 - present
July 2005 - present
Education
September 2000 - June 2004
September 1998 - June 1999
September 1989 - June 1990
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Publications (85)
The authors argue for a critical spatial perspective in comparative and international education. We briefly summarize how time and space have been conceptualized within our field. We then review mainstream social science literature that reflects a metanarrative, which we critique for contributing to false dichotomies between space and place and ove...
In this article we argue for the spatialisation of research on educational transfer in the field of comparative education within a theoretical framework that focuses on networks, connections, and flows. We present what we call a spatial empire of the mind, which is comprised of a set of taken-for-granted ‘truths’ about space and place that have leg...
The aim of this article is to stretch spatial theorising in the field of comparative education. Among the different spatial theoretical approaches that have been explored in educational research in the last 10 years, we review social topology, spatial-temporalities, and beyond-human spatialities and how they have been used in comparative education...
Academics around the world face many pressures to engage in transnational mobility (TNM) as a part of their scholarly work. This includes travelling abroad for conferences and symposia, teaching abroad, supervising graduate students abroad and participating in international research partnerships/collaborations. This is a case study of 15 academics...
Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies
The period between 1800 and 1920 was pivotal in the global history of education and witnessed many of the key developments which still shape the aims, context and lived experience of education today. These developments included the spread of state-sponsored mass elementary education; the efforts of missionary societies and other voluntary movements...
Higher education institutions have been profoundly reshaped by processes associated with neoliberalism. In this chapter, Larsen outlines the ways in which Denmark has ushered in market-driven reforms to the Danish higher education system to enhance their institutional competitiveness over the past 30 years. Research on the impacts of neoliberal hig...
Higher education institutions have been profoundly reshaped by processes associated with neoliberalism. In this chapter, Larsen outlines the ways in which Denmark has ushered in market-driven reforms to the Danish higher education system to enhance their institutional competitiveness over the past 30 years. Research on the impacts of neoliberal hig...
The first section of this article provides a brief history of Comparative and International Education (CIE), the official journal of the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada, over its almost 50-year history. The second section outlines general characteristics of the journal, including the role of the editors and editorial board...
This article reports on the findings of a case study about the Canada–Cuba University Partnership (CCUP), a teaching, research, and service partnership between individuals associated with a Canadian and Cuban University. The research question guiding the study was: “How do the relationships among individuals in the CCUP shape the partnership?” Our...
This article provides background on Kazamias’ historical comparative education work. Transnational history as means to respond to Kazamias’ call to “reinvent the historical” is introduced. The article demonstrates how the logics of transnational history differ markedly from the logics of comparison and transfer. The argument advanced is in favor of...
This paper stems from the panel of past Presidents of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIESC) that was part of the 2017 conference of the CIESC. The theme of the panel was “Looking Back, Visioning Forward: The Promise of Comparative and International Education” and the panelists were asked to present their perspectives based on...
Existing research on international service-learning (ISL) only implicitly alludes to emotions or considers emotions as a limited vehicle through which the more important work of learning occurs. This study set out to shift this focus on emotions to show how emotions are an integral part of the overall ISL experience. The aim was to understand how a...
This study aimed to demonstrate how an international experience within a teacher education program shaped student teachers as global citizens. Our cross-case study of two cohorts of student teachers who participated in an international service learning practicum demonstrates the nuanced ways that international placements influence the development o...
Internationalization of Higher Education: Space, Networks and Mobilities provides a cutting-edge analysis of how higher education institutions have become more international over the past two decades or so drawing upon a range of post-foundational spatial, network and mobilities theories. Troubling existing research, Internationalization of Higher...
This chapter attends to transnational spaces of higher education to understand the range of ways in which providers and programs have become increasingly mobile. An overview of examples of program and provider mobility is provided, including distance learning, branch campuses, and consecutive, joint, and double degree programs. Drawing upon spatial...
In this chapter, we explore how higher education institution (HEI) leaders perceive the relationship between their international background and their commitment to and vision for internationalization. Our ten Canadian HEI participants thought there was a direct link between their international backgrounds and commitment to internationalization. Whi...
Teacher education programs are increasingly integrating aspects of international service-learning (ISL) into student experience. While studies about teacher-candidate experiences are published, less is known about the effects of these ISL initiatives on the host communities. There is a need to hear from and integrate host community voices into all...
This chapter begins by providing some overview data about international study mobility (ISM), and then presents a brief review of the recent ISM literature, which focuses on flows of students from one part of the world to another; motivations, desires and drivers influencing these flows; and other effects and impacts this phenomenon elicits for int...
This chapter is about short-term study abroad (SA), otherwise known as credit mobility, and international service learning (ISL), and focuses on flows of university students from North America to Global South countries. The chapter is organized into three sections. First, the ideas about place that shape students desires to study and serve abroad a...
This article begins with a brief overview of the relationship between globalisation and the internationalisation of higher education. This serves as a backdrop for the focus of the article, which is the internationalisation of teacher education. In order to see the diverse ways that teacher education programmes have been internationalised over the...
CIES Perspectives, January 2016 - Edited by Marianne A. Larsen
In the concluding chapter, the author reviews a number of themes that have emerged in the book to analyze the internationalization of higher education within a post-foundational theoretical framework. These include the use of the concept of networks, including social network analyses; network, mobility, and identity capital; the significance of flo...
The topic of this chapter is the rapid growth of global university ranking systems. The processes associated with internationalization are related to broader shifts within the global landscape of higher education associated with the commodification and marketization of education. Heightened competition between higher education institutions has cont...
In this chapter, the author presents a set of interrelated theoretical tools drawing on spatial, network, and mobilities theories that provide the post-foundational framework for analyzing how higher education institutions are now internationalized. The chapter demonstrates how the theoretical tools deployed draw on Foucauldian concepts, such as di...
This chapter focuses on the mobility of academics (professors, researchers, lecturers) across national borders, beginning with definitions to guide the discussion. The chapter addresses the issue of brain drain, reviewing existing research and the limitations of the concept of brain drain. Scholarship on academic mobility is analyzed to tease out t...
This chapter focuses on the internationalization of curricula in higher education, addressing curricular flows of knowledge that are transnational, and the vehicles through which transnational knowledge circulates. An overview of some ways that higher education pedagogy has been internationalized is presented, including the spread of global citizen...
This case study about one university's internationalization initiative, known as North Goes South, provides a nuanced and finely grained understanding of what internationalization looks like in practice. The study was guided by a desire to probe the perceived impact of a Canadian–East African internation-alization initiative on students, faculty, a...
International Service Learning: Engaging Host Communities brings together authors from North and Central America, East and Southern Africa to share their research and reflections on the impact of ISL programs on host communities in Global South settings.
In this article we argue for the spatialization of research on educational transfer in the field of comparative education within a theoretical framework that focuses on networks, connections, and flows. We present what we call a "spatial empire of the mind," which is comprised of a set of taken-for-granted "truths" about space and place that have l...
This article is based on a case study analyzing the impact of a long-term international service learning (ISL) internship on eight university students. Specifically, the study set out to understand how ISL can contribute to developing university students as critically engaged global citizens. A conceptual framework of Critical Global Citizenship (C...
CIESC Presidential Speech - June, 2013
This article presents the results of two related studies that were interested in exploring the impact of international service learning (ISL) experiences on university student interns in terms of personal and political transformation. We report on the findings related to the question: “How do university students envision social change, and experien...
Review of the book Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education. Edited by
Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti and Lynn T. M. de Souza.
Binary discourses shape and produce the stories we construct about the field of comparative education. In the first part of this article, I review a set of binary discourses that have characterized social science research since the Enlightenment, including: quantitative-qualitative, nomothetic-idiographic, inductive-deductive, and practice-theory....
Providing comparative and international contexts to understand the history of the making of the teacher in Victorian England, this is a compelling account of the development during this time of teacher training, inspections and certification -- reforms which shaped the good teacher as a modern and moral individual.
Nor will we wonder if many [schoolmasters] find it to their advantage to leave the elementary school, and take to employments in which they are at once easier working, better paid, less under surveillance, and in a better social position (Anon, 1861, p. 57).
The Victorians were both optimistic about the times they lived in and terribly anxious about the great promises that modernity held for them. This chapter takes a look at what caused Victorian reformers great concern and worry by examining two discourses, one concerning the general state of society and the other about the teacher. The first, a disc...
From its first establishment this institution [has] been conducted on… a system eminently vigorous in its operation… The students are allowed no time to reflect on the difficulties of the path on which they are entering – they must advance in it… A state of constant mental activity… greatly aids in the maintenance of its discipline… To the right di...
Foucault (1977) traces the rise and development of a number of different institutions over the course of the nineteenth century, which signalled the beginnings of the disciplinary world. Within such institutions, a number of technologies were developed to discipline individuals through the two techniques described in the previous chapter: normalisi...
In response to their fears, uncertainties and anxieties, Victorians came to believe that the best preventative against the problems of society was a good school. From this followed the idea that the only security of a good school was a good teacher. ‘The teacher makes the school’ was a clarion call echoed throughout the Victorian period in England...
This book has shown how the Victorian teacher was governed and constructed as a modern and moral subject through a set of disciplinary technologies. These technologies produced a teacher who was at once both a humble, docile and obedient moral exemplar, and a cultivated, studious, and educated philosopher. Studying the making and shaping of the tea...
Having all been students at one time or another in our lives, we all have opinions on what makes a good teacher. Some recall their favourite teachers for inspiring and motivating them in their studies. Others claim that subject expertise and enthusiasm for teaching were the most important qualities of their favourite teachers. For others, humour an...
This book engages with a form of historical research known as new cultural history. New cultural history, a term that has become increasingly popular since the end of the 1980s, focuses on the construction or production of reality, rather than the idea that texts and images simply reflect social reality. It is in this respect that this book is a ne...
During the Victorian era, public education systems were constructed in newly industrialised and urbanised nation-states, and in former colonial societies undergoing these modernising processes, along with the processes associated with new nationhood. The construction of popular, universal education systems was premised on the idea that schooling wa...
The belief in the central role of the teacher has a long and comparative history. This article aims to critically analyse the discourse of the centrality of the teacher by both historicising and problematising the ideas and practices associated with this discourse. First, the article describes the discourse as it was taken up during the twenty‐firs...
The field of comparative education has been particularly slow to get ‘past the post’ (Cowen, 1996) and actively engage with
the ideas of postmodernism.1 Over 15 years ago, Rust, who was then the President of the Comparative and International Education
Society (CIES), commented on our reluctance to consider the implications that new feminist, postmo...
Teacher performance appraisal policies are a part of a global complex of accountability based teacher policies. This paper is a study of the Ontario teacher performance appraisal (TPA) system. First, the paper describes the education reform contexts associated with the origins and adoption of the TPA policy. Then the paper reports on the results of...
Contemporary North American insecurities and fears are the focus of this article. In the first section, the inter‐related concepts of insecurity, fear and vulnerability are theorised, and the argument put forward that these have come to constitute a dominant discourse in contemporary North American society. In the second section of the paper, the c...
A grade 6 social studies teachers' resource kit to teach students how to become active global citizens through over 40 ready-made lesson plans, black-line masters and assessment tasks. A collaborative initiative between The University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Education, the Thames Valley District School Board and Free the Children. Available...
This paper presents the results of a study, which was a part of a broader project to develop and pilot test a global citizenship education (GCE) teaching kit. This study involved examining a group of typical teachers’ perceptions, attitudes and beliefs about becoming global citizen educators. The study posed the question, “Can providing teachers wi...
The first section of this article provides a brief overview of the field in Canada, and in so doing, demonstrates the broad nature of Comparative Education within the Canadian context. The second section of this article provides an overview of the comparative and international education programmes, specialization areas and courses in Canadian highe...
This paper explores the dual and seemingly contradictory potential of self-study research to illuminate our fears, anxieties, tensions and uncertainties as teacher educators, whilst acting as a catalyst for community building. This self-study research was conducted during the founding year of a new school of education, drawing data from surveys and...
Educational policy makers across a wide array of settings have made concerted efforts to improve their educational systems by paying close attention to their teaching profession. The state of Connecticut in the north-eastern U.S.A. and the northern European country of Finland are two such jurisdictions. However, unlike most other settings, where lo...
Modernising the teaching profession has become one of the main goals of contemporary educational system reform. The evaluation of teachers has been integral to the new teacher quality policies and programs. This article provides a comparative and critical analysis of the evaluations that teachers now confront during their professional careers. Exam...
Our vision is to research, engage with and promote the study of education in international contexts from critical, comparative and ethically-responsive perspectives. We aim to provide opportunities for debate and discussion around the impact of globalization on education, the objects/subjects of our research, and the analytical approaches we deploy...