Allan Luke teaches sociology and discourse analysis, curriculum, and policy at the Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Trained as a primary teacher in Canada, he has worked as a preservice teacher educator, researcher, theorist, senior government policy advisor, university dean, and public intellectual in Australia and Asia. His most recent book is Bourdieu and Literacy Education (2007).

William H. Schubert is Professor of Education, University Scholar, and coordinator of the PhD Program in Curriculum at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where his teaching has been awarded several times. He has published 10 books and 150 articles or chapters on curriculum theory and history in and out of school. Former president of the John Dewey Society, The Society for the Study of Curriculum History, Society of Professors of Education and vice president of American Educational Research Association (AERA), he received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Curriculum Studies from AERA in 2004 and the Raywid Award from SPE in 2007. Bill acknowledges Ann Lynn Lopez Schubert (1952–2006) for invaluable contributions to his work and life.

Ian Westbury is Professor of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and General Editor of the Journal of Curriculum Studies. He edited, with Neil J. Wilkof, Science Curriculum and Liberal Education: Selected Essays of Joseph J. Schwab (1978); with Stefan Hopmann and Kurt Riquarts, Teaching as a Reflective Practice: The German Didaktik Tradition (2000), and with Geoffrey Milburn, Rethinking Schooling: Twenty-five Years of the Journal of Curriculum Studies (2007).