Professor Suzanne Majhanovich

I am a Professor Emerita/Adjunct Research Professor at the Faculty of Education, UWO, whose initial research area involved first and second language acquisition, and issues of teaching and learning second/foreign languages. I was the senior author of the French text series En français s’il vous plait and also worked at times on contract for the Ministry of Education developing curriculum guidelines for French as a Second Language and International Languages. I have been active in the Ontario Modern Language Teachers’ Association and was awarded a Life Membership in 2000. Before joining a faculty of education, I taught secondary school French as a Second Language and German.

I have a long-standing interest in comparative and international education, especially with regard to how globalization has affected education systems in Canada and elsewhere. I have made numerous presentations and published several articles in the area and have co-edited one volume of a twelve-volume book series: Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, to be published by Springer Publications; namely, volume 2, Comparative and Global Pedagogies: Equity, Access and Democracy in Education, (2008). I have also co-edited with Drs. Joseph Zajda and Val Rust a special issue on Education and Social Justice of the International Review of Education 52(1-2) (2006) which also appeared as in book form, published by Springer. Education and Social Justice included selected articles developed from papers presented at the 12th World Congress of Comparative Education Societies which took place in Havana, Cuba, October, 2004. After the 13th World Congress, held in Sarajevo, Bosnia, I co-edited with Christine Fox and Adila Pašalic Kreso a special issue of the International Review of Education, Volume 54 (1-2) (2008) entitled Living Together: Education and Intercultural Dialogue, which was also reprinted by Springer as a stand-alone volume in 2009. The issue featured selected papers from the 13th World Congress. Currently I am co-editing with Christine Fox and Fatma Gok a special issue for the International Review of Education based on selected presentations from the 14th World Congress which took place in Istanbul, Turkey, June, 2010. I have also co-edited several volumes on Comparative Education for Sense Publishers.

From 2000-2003, I was involved in a large SSHRC project on the History of Women Teachers in Ontario (Principal Investigator, Dr. Rebecca Coulter). My area of the study, francophone women teachers in Ontario resulted in a number of conference presentations and several articles and chapters. More recently I have worked with colleagues in the Faculty on a large Ministry of Education project to investigate the feasibility of using the Common European Framework of Reference as an organizing principle for Ontario FSL programs. This project, completed June 2010 resulted in two major research reports and numerous conference presentations.

I am currently editor of the journal Canadian and International Education, and welcome articles for consideration on topics related to Canadian, Comparative and International Education.