Dr. Maren Elfert

Biography

Maren Elfert is a Senior Lecturer in International Education at King’s College London. She previously worked as a member of the professional staff at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning in Hamburg for a decade. In 2011, she moved to Canada to pursue her doctoral degree at the University of British Columbia, which she completed in 2016. After spending two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta, she joined King’s College London in 2019. Her research focuses on the influence of global governance and international organizations on educational ideas and policies. She employs historical approaches through archival research and interviews to trace the evolution of concepts in education. Dr. Elfert has published on topics such as the historical educational work of UNESCO, the OECD, and the World Bank, and the role of the Sustainable Development Goals in global education policy. Additionally, she is co-authoring the book 'Global Governance Education: Historical Contemporary Entanglements'. Her teaching contributions include various modules on political economy education and international comparative education.

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