Contributors

Pierrick Devidal holds Masters degrees from the Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France and from the Dean Rusk Center, University of Georgia School of Law, USA. He is an International Humanitarian Rights worker currently working for an international humanitarian organization in Colombia.

Eduardo Domenech coordinates the Program on Multiculturalism, Migrations and Inequality in Latin America at the Center of Advanced Studies of the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. He has edited Migraciones internacionales y diversidad cultural en la Argentina (CEA-UNC, 2005).

Henry A. Giroux holds the Global TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Canada. His most recent books include: America on the Edge (2006); The Giroux Reader (2006); Beyond the Spectacle of Terrorism (2006), Stormy Weather: Katrina and the Politics of Disposability (2006), and The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex (2007).

Nick Grant works at Cardinal Wiseman High School, Ealing, West London, is secretary of Ealing branch of the National Union of Teachers and is active in the UK Socialist Teachers Alliance.

Nigel M. Greaves was recently awarded a PhD from the University of Northampton for his work on Antonio Gramsci’s political philosophy. He has lectured at University College Northampton, the University of Bristol and at Thames Valley University.

Eric Haas is a Senior Fellow at the Rockridge Institute in Berkeley, California. He is also a lawyer and a former assistant professor of Educational Policy at The University of Connecticut.

Dave Hill is Professor of Education Policy, University of Northampton, UK. For twenty years he was a local and regional political and labor union leader in England. He co-founded the Hillcole Group of Radical Left Educators in Britain and co-edited a trilogy on schooling and inequality for Cassell and Kogan Page. He is Routledge Series Editor for Education and Neoliberalism and also Routledge Series Editor for Education and Marxism. He is Chief Editor of the international refereed academic journal, the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies.

Nico Hirtt is an independent researcher on education policy working for the Belgian movement Appel pour une école démocratique (www.ecoledemocratique.org). He has published several books on the Belgian and European education policy.

Ravi Kumar teaches at the Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India. He has done extensive fieldwork on identity politics, caste based mobilizations, educational inequality and social movements in North India. His publications include The Politics of Imperialism and Counterstrategies (co-edited, Delhi: Aakar Books, 2004) and The Crisis of Elementary Education in India (edited, Sage, 2006).

Roberto Leher is a Professor of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and coordinator of the Working Group "University and Society" of the Latin-American Board of Social Sciences (CLACSO).

Alpesh Maisuria is a Lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton, England. He holds a BA in Education Studies from University College Northampton and a Masters with distinction in Education Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Curry Malott is a professor in the Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education at D’Youville College in Buffalo, New York USA. His most recent books include: A Call to Action: An Introduction to Education, Philosophy and Native North America (2008) and An International Examination of Urban Education: The Destructive Path of Neoliberalism (forthcoming) co-edited with Brad Porfilio.

Tristan McCowan is Senior Lecturer in Education at Roehampton University, London. His research interests include citizenship education, curriculum theory, and higher education policy. From 2002-2003 he was Coordinator of the Observatory of Latin American Education Policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Recent publications have appeared in the journals Higher Education, Journal of Education Policy, International Journal of Educational Development and Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies.

Carlos Mora-Ninci is a Ph.D in Social Sciences and Comparative Education from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and author of Latinos in the West: the Student Movement and Academic Labor in Los Angeles (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007).