About
Research Interests
Individual research Interests
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Bio
Vicheth Sen was born in a rural farming village in Kampong Speu province, Cambodia. He grew up and lived in the village until the age of 7 when his family moved to a town in the provincial centre to escape the frequent armed clashes between the remaining Khmer Rouge soldiers and the army of the Cambodian government. He lived in the provincial town until he completed high school in 1998 when he moved to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, to attend the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) where he received a B.Ed. in TEFL in 2002. Upon graduation, he worked as a lecturer at the Department of English, RUPP.
From 2002 to 2012, in between his times spent overseas pursuing his graduate studies, he was a lecturer at the Royal University of Phnom Penh and a researcher at a Phnom Penh-based think tank, Cambodia Development Resource Institute. He moved to Canada in 2013 to pursue his Ph.D. at the Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, where he is teaching as a sessional lecturer. His doctoral research examined his own journey of social mobility through pursuit of higher education (and the journeys of his fellow contemporaries in Cambodia) within the context of ‘postcolonial’ Cambodia.
His scholarship is shaped and informed by his biography and his transnational and interdisciplinary educational background.
Research and Education
Education
Ph.D. (Educational Studies), 2020, University of British Columbia, Canada
M.A. (International Peace Studies), 2009, University for Peace, Costa Rica
M.Ed. (Curriculum and Instruction), 2008, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Postgraduate Diploma (Applied Linguistics), 2005, Regional Language Centre, Singapore
B.Ed. (TEFL), 2002, Institute of Foreign Languages, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Research Projects
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Selected Publications
Books
Poole, W., Sen, V., & Fallon, G. (2022). Neoliberalism and public education finance policy in Canada: Reframing educational leadership as entrepreneurship. Routledge.
Journal articles
Sen, V., & Walter, P. (2020). Community-based ecotourism and the transformative learning of homestay hosts in Cambodia. Tourism Recreation Research, 45(3), 323-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2019.1692171
Poole, W., Fallon, G., & Sen, V. (2019). Privatized sources of funding and the spatiality of inequities in public education. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 52(1), 124-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2019.1689105
Walter, P., & Sen, V. (2018). A geography of ecotourism in Cambodia: Regions, patterns and potentials. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, 23(3), 297-311. https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2017.1422771
Sen, V. (2017). Hybrid governmentality: Higher education policymaking in post-conflict Cambodia. Studies in Higher Education, 44(3), 513-525. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2017.1379985
Poole, W., Sen, V., & Fallon, G. (2016). Manufacturing consent for privatization in public education: The rise of a social finance network in Canada. Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 180, 14-46.
Sen, V. (2016). Towards customized privatization in public education in British Columbia: The provincial education plan and personalized learning. Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 180, 135-168.
Book chapters
Sen, V. (2022). Higher education in Cambodia: The constraining effects of traditional values. In V. McNamara, & M. Hayden (Eds.), Education in Cambodia: From year zero towards international standards (pp. 97-112). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8213-1_6
Breitschwerdt, L., & Sen, V. (2018). Implementing national qualifications frameworks: Difficulties in Cambodia and Germany. In R. Egetenmeyer, & M. Fedeli (Eds.), Adult education and work contexts: International perspectives and challenges (pp. 101-121). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
EDST Activity
Courses taught
ADHE 327 Teaching Adults
ADHE 328 Institutions of Adult Education
ADHE 329 Developing Short Courses, Workshops, and Seminars
EDST 401 Education, School, and Social Institutions
EDST 403 Education, Knowledge, and Curriculum
EDST 404 Ethics and Teaching
EDST 575 Work and Learning