Professor History of Education and Policy Analysis at the Institute of Education, University of Zürich, Switzerland, and an Honorary Research Fellowship at the Department of Education, Oxford University, UK.

Christian Ydesen has been a visiting scholar at Edinburgh University (2008-2009, 2016), Birmingham University (2013), Oxford University (2019), and University of Milan (2021 and 2024). He has published numerous chapters and articles on subjects such as educational testing, international organizations, accountability, educational psychology, and diversity in education from historical and international perspectives.

Currently, he serves as an executive editor of the European Educational Research Journal and the editor-in-chief of the Springer book series ‘Global Histories of Education.’

Before his appointment to the University of Zurich, Christian Ydesen was a professor at the Department of Culture and Learning of Aalborg University, Denmark.

Visiting research fellow at Moray House, University of Edinburgh (2008-2009)

Visiting research fellow at the School of Education, University of Birmingham (2013)

Visiting research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh (2016)

International Guest Lecturer, University of Göttingen (2018)

Visiting research fellow at the Department of Education, University of Oxford (2019)

International Guest Lecturer, University of Granada (2019)

Honorary Research Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2020-2021)

Honorary Research Fellow, University of Oxford (2020-)

Visiting professor at the Evidence-Based Policy Research and Action Hub, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy (2024)

Executive Editor of European Educational Research Journal

Editor in chief of the Springer book series ‘Global Histories of Education’

Peer-reviewed publications

Journal articles

Sivesind, K., Nordin, A. and Ydesen, C. (2024) Intermediary bodies and policy brokers in Nordic school reforms: A three-country comparison, Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy (forthcoming)

Murphy, M. and Ydesen, C. (2024). The Moral Grounding of Changing Educational Assessment and Accountability - A theoretically informed analysis of moral assemblages in Denmark, Oxford Review of Education, Special Issue: Competence, competition, content and control: Sociological perspectives on educational assessment. Guest editors: Guoxing Yu & Patricia Broadfoot, University of Bristol & Michelle Meadows, University of Oxford (Forthcoming)

Elfert, M., & Ydesen, C. (2024). Special Issue of Comparative Education: Global governance and the promissory visions of education: challenges and agendas. Comparative Education, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2024.2371701

Ydesen, C., & Daniels, H. (2024). Inclusive education in complex landscapes of stakeholders, agendas and priorities. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2024.2368685

Milner, A. and Ydesen, C. (2024). International Comparisons in Education: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Methodological-Political Trajectories, Contributions and Debates. The BERA-Sage Handbook of Research-Informed Education Practice and Policy.

Milner, A. L., & Ydesen, C. (2024). Producing accountability with autonomy in Denmark and England: The analytical potential of assemblage theory with critical realism in comparative education. Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/20020317.2024.2392892

Steiner-Khamsi, G., Martens, K., & Ydesen, C. (2024). Governance by numbers 2.0: Policy brokerage as an instrument of global governance in the era of information overload. Comparative Education, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2024.2308348

Ydesen, C., & Elfert, M. (2023). SDG4 as a global governance tool and the quest for recognizing diversity – Implications emerging from the intersections between inclusive education and assessment. International Journal of Educational Development, 103, 102932. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2023.102932

Ydesen, C. (2023). New national tests for the Danish public school system – Tensions between renewal and orthodoxy before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969594X.2023.2166462

Ydesen, C. (2023). Educational assessment – trends in research, policy and practice. In R. J. Tierney, F. Rizvi, & K. Erkican (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education (Fourth Edition) (s. 103–107). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818630-5.09033-3

Ydesen, C., & Milner, A. L. (2022). Inklusion i en testskole. Kvan - et tidsskrift for læreruddannelsen og folkeskolen, 106-115.

Ydesen, C., & Dorn, S. (2022). The No Child Left Behind Act in the Global Architecture of Educational Accountability. History of Education Quarterly, 62(3), 268-290. doi:10.1017/heq.2022.11

Ydesen, C. & Hansen, I.S. (2021) Globale rammesætninger af elevevalueringer og inklusion i folkeskolen, CEPRA-striben

Sorensen, T. B., Ydesen, C., & Robertson, S. L. (2021). Re-reading the OECD and education: The emergence of a global governing complex – an introduction. Globalization, Societies and Education, 19(2), 99-107. https://10.1080/14767724.2021.1897946

Milner, A. L., Mattei, P., & Ydesen, C. (2021). Governing education in times of crisis: State interventions and school accountabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. European Educational Research Journal, 20(4), 520–539. https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041211022198

Grek, S., & Ydesen, C. (2021). Where science met policy: Governing by indicators and the OECD’s INES programme. Globalization, Societies and Education, 19(2), 122-137. https://10.1080/14767724.2021.1892477

Friche, N., Enemark, N. R., & Ydesen, C. (2021). Guaranteeing positive destinations for youth in a danish municipality: The transfer, translation, and transformation of a policy instrument. European Educational Research Journal. https://10.1177/14749041211049909

Ydesen, C. & Andersen, C. K. (2020). Implementing inclusive education policies – the challenges of organizational change in a Danish municipality. Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 6(1), 69–78. https://doi.org/10.1080/20020317.2020.1733848

Ydesen, C., & Andreasen, K. E. (2020). Historical Roots of the Global Testing Culture in Education. Nordic Studies in Education, 40(2), 149–166. https://doi.org/10.23865/nse.v40.2229

Ydesen, C., & Buchardt, M. (2020) Citizen Ideals and Education in Nordic Welfare State School Reforms, Oxford research encyclopedia of education. Oxford University Press. https://10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1450

Ydesen, C., & Bomholt, A. (2020). Accountability implications of the OECD’s economistic approach to education: A historical case analysis. Journal of Educational Change, vol. 21, pp. 37-57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-019-09355-1

Ydesen, C. & Grek, S. (2020) Securing organisational survival: a historical inquiry into the OECD’s work in education during the 1960s,Paedagogica Historica, 56:3, 412-427, DOI: 10.1080/00309230.2019.1604774

Ydesen, C. & Andreasen, K. (2019) Koblinger mellem økonomi og uddannelse - et rids af dansk transnational uddannelseshistorie, EDUCARE, no. 1, pp. 1-25.

Ydesen, C., Hamre, B & Andreasen, K. (2018) Differentiation of Students in the Early Danish Welfare State: Professional Entanglements Between Educational Psychologists and Psychiatrists, Nordic Journal of Educational History, Vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 73–96

Ørskov, F. F., & Ydesen, C. (2018). Playing the game of IQ testing in England and Denmark in the 1930s–1960s—a socio-material perspective. Oxford Review of Education, 44(5), 599–615. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2018.1491397

Kelly, P., Andreasen, K. E., Kousholt, K., McNess, E., & Ydesen, C. (2018). Education governance and standardised tests in Denmark and England. Journal of Education Policy, 33(6), 739–758. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2017.1360518

Padovan-Özdemir, M. & Ydesen, C. (2016) Professional Encounters with the Post-WWII Immigrant – A Privileged Prism for Studying the Shaping of European Welfare Nation-States. In: Paedagogica Historica, Themed Issue: Shaping European Welfare Nation-States through Professional Encounters with the Post-WWII Immigrant, Padovan-Özdemir, M. & Ydesen, C. guest eds., 52:5

Myers, K. & Ydesen, C. (2016) The Imperial Welfare State? Decolonization, education and professional interventions on immigrant children in Birmingham, 1948-1971. In: Paedagogica Historica, Themed Issue: Shaping European Welfare Nation-States through Professional Encounters with the Post-WWII Immigrant, Padovan-Özdemir, M. & Ydesen, C. guest eds., 52:5, DOI: 10.1080/00309230.2016.1192207

Andreasen, K.E. & Ydesen, C. (2016) Educating for peace: The role and impact of international organisations in interwar and post-war Danish school experiments, 1918–1975. In: Nordic Journal of Educational History, vol. 2. No. 2, pp. 3-25

Ydesen, C. (2016). Crafting the English welfare state—interventions by Birmingham Local Education Authorities, 1948–1963. British Educational Research Journal, http://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3223

Christensen, I. L., & Ydesen, C. (2015). Routes of Knowledge: Toward a Methodological Framework for Tracing the Historical Impact of International Organizations. European Education, 47(3), 274–288. https://doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2015.1065392

Christensen, I.L. & Ydesen, C. (2015). Internationale organisationers virkningshistorie: Teoretiske og metodiske overvejelser. TEMP - tidsskrift for historie, 10, 16-33.

McNess, E.; Kelly, P.; Kousholt, K.; Andreasen, K.E.; Ydesen, C. (2015) Standardised testing in compulsory schooling in England and Denmark: – A comparative study and analysis. In: Bildung und Erziehung, 68(3), pp. 329-348

Andreasen, K.E. & Ydesen, C. (2015) Folkeskolens test- og evalueringspraksisser i internationalt perspektiv 1945-1990 [Test- and evaluation practices of the public school system in international perspective, 1945-1990]. In: Temp, vol. 10, pp. 92-115

Dorn, S. & Ydesen, C. (2014) Towards a Comparative and International History of School Testing and Accountability. In: Education Policy Analysis Archive, vol. 22, no. 120, pp. 1-11 http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v22.1913

Andreasen, K.E. & Ydesen, C. (2014) Accountability Practices in the History of Danish Primary Public Education from the 1660s to the Present. In: Education Policy Analysis Archive, vol. 22, no. 120, pp. 1-31 http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v22.1618

Hamre, B. & Ydesen, C. (2014) The Ascent of Educational Psychology in Denmark in the Interwar Years. In: Nordic Journal of Educational History, vol. I(2), pp. 87-111

Ydesen, C. (2014) High-Stakes Educational Testing and Democracy: antagonistic or symbiotic relationship? In: Education, Citizenship and Social Justice. February, 9(2), pp. 97-114

Andreasen, K. E.; Rasmussen, A.; Ydesen, C. (2013) Standardized Testing, Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide, Ainsworth, J. (ed.), vol. 2, Sage Publications, Incorporated, pp. 737-740.

Andreasen, K. E. & Rasmussen, P., Ydesen, C. (2013) Den diskrete internationalisering: Danske uddannelser i international kontekst 1968-1982 [The discrete internationalization: Danish education in international context 1968-1982]. In Uddannelseshistorie, vol. 47. pp. 36-59.

Ludvigsen, K., Lundahl, C. & Ydesen, C. (2013) Creating an educational testing profession – the emergence and impact of the Scandinavian testing community, 1920-1960. In European Educational Research Journal. Special Issue. 2013, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 120-138.

Ydesen, C. (2013) Educational Testing as an Accountability Measure: Drawing on Twentieth-century Danish History of Education Experiences. In Paedagogica Historica, 49:5, pp. 716-733.

Ydesen, C. (2012) Børn i særklasse – Lærerbedømmelser og test i det 20. Århundrede [Children in remedial education – teacher evaluations and tests in the 20th century]. In Årbog for Uddannelseshistorie.

Ydesen, C. (2012) At skabe orden i skolen – intelligenstestning på Frederiksberg 1930-1943 [Creating Order in School – Intelligence Testing at Frederiksberg, 1930-1943]. In Temp.

Ydesen, C. (2012) The international space of the Danish testing community in the interwar years. In Paedagogica Historica, 48 (4), 2012, pp. 589-599

Garsdal, J. & Ydesen, C. (2009) The debate on educational and psychological testing in the United States. In Education Review. vol. 12, no. 8, June 15.

 

Monographs

Elfert, M., & Ydesen, C. (2023). Global governance of education: The historical and contemporary entanglements of UNESCO, the OECD and the World Bank. Educational Governance Research Series (Series Eds. S. Carney & L. Moos). Dordrecht: Springer.

Ydesen, C., Milner, A. L., Aderet-German T., Gomez-Caride, E., and Ruan, Y. (2022) Educational Assessment and Inclusive Education - Paradoxes, Perspectives and Potentialities, Cham: Springer International Publishing

Rasmussen, A. & Ydesen, C. (2020) Cultivating Excellence in Education, Educational Governance Research, Cham: Springer International Publishing

Øland, T., Ydesen, C., Padovan-Özdemir, M. & Moldenhawer, B. (2019) State-Crafting on the Fringes – Studies of Welfare Work Addressing the Other, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum

Andreasen, K. E., Rasmussen, P. D., Rasmussen, A., Jensen, A. A., Ydesen, C., & Ravn, O. (2017). At undersøge læring. Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur.

Ydesen, C. (2011) The Rise of High-Stakes Educational Testing in Denmark, 1920-1970. Frankfurt a.M: Peter Lang Verlag.

 

Book chapters

Ydesen, C., Hovland, B.M. & Vikström, E. (2025) The Scandinavian Space of IQ-testing and ‘Intelligence’ between Mainstream and Remedial Education, 1918–1940, In: Kyllingstad, J. & Caspersen, H.Å. (eds.) Historicizing IQ tests: IQ testing and its roles in Norwegian society from the 1900s until today, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers

Brøgger, K. & Ydesen, C. (2024). The Crafting of a European Education Space and Europeanization - The Role of the EU and the OECD, In: I. R. Coutaz & S. Paoli (eds.), Building Europe through Education: Actors, Spaces and Pedagogies in a Historical Perspective. London: Routledge.

Ydesen, C. & Enemark, N.R. (2023) The OECD’s Boundary Work in Education in the United States and Brazil – a historical comparative analysis of two federal states, In. Paola Mattei, Xavier Dumay, Eric Mangez, Jacqueline Behrend (eds.) The Oxford Handbook on Education and Globalization. Oxford University Press

Reder, T. J., & Ydesen, C. (2022). Policy Borrowing and Evidence in Danish Education Policy Preparation: The Case of the Public School Reform of 2013. In B. Karseth, K. Sivesind, & G. Steiner-Khamsi (eds.), Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy (s. 77–114). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91959-7_4

Ydesen, C., Kauko, J., & Magnúsdóttir, B. R. (2022). The OECD and the Field of Knowledge Brokers in Danish, Finnish, and Icelandic Education Policy. In B. Karseth, K. Sivesind, & G. Steiner-Khamsi (eds.), Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy (pp. 321–348). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91959-7_11

Ydesen, C. (2021). Extrapolated Imperial Nationalisms in Global Education Policy Formation: An Historical Inquiry into American and Scandinavian Agendas in OECD Policy. In: D. Tröhler, N. Piattoeva, & W. Pinar (eds.), World Yearbook of Education 2022: Education, Schooling and the Global Universalization of Banal Nationalism, London: Routledge, pp. 119-135.

Ydesen, C. (2021). Historical compositions of actors in Danish educational testing practices - a prism for unravelling reconfigurations of internal/external actors in education. In: Lubienski, C., Yemini, M., & Maxwell, C. (Eds.), The Rise of External Actors in Education: Shifting Boundaries Globally and Locally. Bristol: Policy Press (pp. 113-132).

Ydesen, C. (2021) Crafting Globalization – A Bourdieusian Historical Approach to Studying International Organizations and Global Governance in Education, In: Robinson, Sarah; Ernst, Jette; Thomasson, Ole Jacob; Larsen, Kristian (eds.) Pierre Bourdieu in Studies of Organization and Management: Societal Change and Transforming Fields, Routledge, pp. 134-154.

Ydesen, C. (2021) Globalization and Localization in the Shaping of the Danish Public Education System – Discursive Struggles in Four Historical Educational Reforms, In: Zhao, W. & Tröhler, D. Globalization and Localization: A Euro-Asia Dialogue on 21st-Century Competency-Based Curriculum Reforms, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 85-109, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3009-5_5

Skedsmo, G., Rönnberg, L., & Ydesen, C. (2021). National testing and accountability in the Scandinavian welfare states: Education policy translations in Norway, Denmark and Sweden. In: World yearbook of education 2021: Accountability and datafication in the governance of education Grek, S; Maroy, C. and Verger, T. (eds.) Abingdon: Routledge (pp. 113–129).

Ydesen, C., & Andreasen, K. E. (2021). Die historischen Wurzeln einer globalen Prüfungskultur im Bildungssystem. I S. Spieker, & A. Czejkowska (red.), Innere Sicherheit (Band 2019-1, s. 213-236). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/JP012019K_211

Elfert, M. & Ydesen, C. (2020) The Rise of Global Governance in Education: The OEEC and UNESCO, 1945-1960, In Gram-Skjoldager, K., Ikonomou, H. A. and Kahlert, T. (eds.) Organizing the World - International Organization and the Emergence of International Public Administration 1920-1960, London & New York: Bloomsbury, pp. 73-89

Ydesen, C. (2019) The Formation and Workings of a Global Education Governing Complex, In: Ydesen, C. (ed.) The OECD’s Historical Rise in Education: The Formation of a Global Governing Complex, Global Histories of Education, London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 291-303.

Ydesen, C. (2019) What can we learn about global education from historical and global policy studies of the OECD? In: Ydesen, C. (ed.) The OECD’s Historical Rise in Education: The Formation of a Global Governing Complex, Global Histories of Education, London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-14.

Øland, T., Ydesen, C., Padovan-Özdemir, M. and Moldenhawer, B. (2019) The Othered and Professionals of the Post-1945 Welfare State: Framing Studies of Statecrafting, Trine Øland, Christian Ydesen, Marta Padovan-Özdemir and Bolette Moldenhawer (eds.) Statecrafting on the Fringes: Studies of Welfare Work Addressing the Other, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, pp. 11-31.

Ydesen, C. (2019) Statist Capital and the Public Good of the Danish Welfare Nation-State, 1945–1970s: A Comparative Historical Case Study of Individuals, Groups, and Professional Interventions, In: Trine Øland, Christian Ydesen, Marta Padovan-Özdemir and Bolette Moldenhawer (eds.) Statecrafting on the Fringes: Studies of Welfare Work Addressing the Other, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, pp. 33-89.

Ydesen, C. & Verschaeve, J. (2018) The OECD Development Assistance Committee and Peace: Instituting Peace by Economic Means. In: Aigul Kulnazarova, A. & Popovski, V. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Approaches to Peace, London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Hamre, B. Morin, A & Ydesen, C. (2018) The tension field between testing and inclusion: Introducing a research endeavour. In: Hamre, B. Morin, A & Ydesen, C. (eds.) Testing and Inclusive schooling – international challenges and opportunities, London: Routledge, pp. x-xviii

Hamre, B. Morin, A & Ydesen, C. (2018) Optimizing the educational subject between testing and inclusion in an era of neoliberalism - Musings on a research agenda and its future perspectives. In: Hamre, B. Morin, A & Ydesen, C. (eds.) Testing and Inclusive schooling – international challenges and opportunities, London: Routledge

Ydesen, C. & Au, W. (2018) Educational testing, the question of the public good, and the room for inclusion: A comparative study between Scotland and the United States. In: Hamre, B. Morin, A & Ydesen, C. (eds.) Testing and Inclusive schooling – international challenges and opportunities, London: Routledge

Buchardt, M. & Ydesen, C. (2018) Testing the Culturally Deviant of the Welfare State: Greenlandic Children and the Children of Labour Migrants in Danish Minority Education, 1960s to 1970s. In: Lawn, M. & Alarcon, C. Student Assessment Cultures in Historical Perspective, Berlin: Peter Lang

Dussel, I. & Ydesen, C. (2016) Jamie Torres Bodet and the struggle over history writing of the Americas: The Mexican Experience. In: Kulnazarova, A. & Ydesen, C. (eds.) UNESCO Without Borders: Educational Campaigns for International Understanding, Routledge

Ydesen, C., & Castro, H. R. (2016). The Historical Confluence of Education for International Understanding and Textbook Revisions in Brazil, 1945–1960. In Kulnazarova, A. & Ydesen, C. (eds.) UNESCO Without Borders: Educational Campaigns for International Understanding, Routledge

Kulnazarova, A. & Ydesen, C. (2016) The Nature and Methodology of UNESCO’s Educational Campaigns. In: Kulnazarova, A. & Ydesen, C. (eds.) UNESCO Without Borders: Educational Campaigns for International Understanding, London: Routledge, pp. 3-12

Ydesen, C. (2016) Debating International Understanding in the Western World: The American Approach to UNESCO’s Educational Campaigns, 1946-54. In: Kulnazarova, A. & Ydesen, C. (eds.) UNESCO Without Borders: Educational Campaigns for International Understanding, London: Routledge, pp. 239-255

Dussel, I. & Ydesen, C. (2016) UNESCO and the Improvement of History Textbooks in Mexico, 1945-1960. In: Duedahl, P. (ed.) The History of UNESCO: Global Actions and Impacts, Palgrave MacMillan

Andreasen, K.E. & Ydesen, C. (2016) The International Space of the Danish Testing Community in the Post-war Years. In: Smith, Willam C. (ed.) The Global Testing Culture: Shaping Education Policy, Perceptions, and Practice, Oxford Studies in Comparative Education, pp. 115-130.

Ydesen, C., & Øland, T. (2015). Professional Interventions as a State-Crafting Grammar: Using a Sociological Concept of State in Historical Research. In M. Lytje, T. K. Nielsen, & M. Ottoway Jørgensen (Eds.), Challenging Ideas?: Theory and Empirical Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities (pp. 140-160). Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Jacobsen, A.J. & Ydesen, C. (2015) Forsvarets udvælgelse af pilotaspiranter – test som egnethedsinstrument [The Selection of Military Pilots – Testing as an instrument of aptitude]. In: Buchardt, M.; Andreasen, K.E.; Rasmussen, A.; Ydesen, C. (Eds.) Test og prøvelser - Oprindelse, udvikling, aktualitet [Tests and Assessments – Origin, Development, Actuality]. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press

Andreasen, K.E. & Ydesen, C. (2015) Skolemoden og skoleparat - Vurderinger af børn ved overgangen til skolen [School maturity and school readiness – assessments of pre-school children]. Buchardt, M.; Andreasen, K.E.; Rasmussen, A.; Ydesen, C. (Eds.) Test og prøvelser - Oprindelse, udvikling, aktualitet [Tests and Assessments – Origin, Development, Actuality]. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press

Andreasen, K.E. & Ydesen, C. (2014) Test, prøver og eksamener i sociologisk perspektiv [Tests and exams in a sociological perspective]. In: Rasmussen, Jens & Dorf, Hans (eds.) Pædagogisk sociologi. Hans Reitzels forlag, chapter 7, pp. 147-162

Ydesen, C. (2014) Skolens nye eksperter [The school’s new experts]. In: Coninck-Smith, N.de & Appel, C. Dansk skolehistorie. Hverdag, vilkår og visioner gennem 500 år [Schools in Denmark: A History of Everyday Life, Conditions, and Visions over 500 Years], vol. IV, chapter 13, pp. 242-256.

Ydesen, C. (2013) The creative democratic potential of the multitude: Solidarity and love as transcendence in immanence. In: Agustin, O. G. & Ydesen, C. (eds.) Post-Crisis Perspectives – The Common and its Powers. Frankfurt a.M: Peter Lang Verlag.

Ydesen, C., & Agustin, O. G. (2013). In Search of Post-Crisis Perspectives. In: Agustin, O. G. & Ydesen, C. (eds.) Post-Crisis Perspectives – The Common and its Powers. Frankfurt a.M: Peter Lang Verlag

Ydesen, C. (2011) Totality and exteriority: the case of high-stakes testing in intercultural education. In: Kofoed, O.; Paulsen, M; Rasmussen, J.K.; Ydesen, C. (eds.) Learning from the Other. NSU Press. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2011, pp. 273-296.

Ydesen, C. (2011) Educating Greenlanders and Germans - Minority Education in the Danish Commonwealth, 1945-1970. In: Niedrig, H., Ydesen, C. (eds.) Writing Postcolonial Histories of Intercultural Education. Frankfurt a.M: Peter Lang Verlag. 2011, pp. 239-267.

Ydesen, C. (2010) Educational selection technologies in neocolonial Greenland - The preparation scheme in the Greenlandic educational system 1961–1976. In: Larsson, Esbjörn & Westberg, Johannes (eds.) Utbildningens sociala och kulturella historia. Uppsala, pp. 147-167.