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Lesley Parker is an Associate Professor in the Teaching Learning Group at Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia. She is also the Assistant Director of Australia’s National Key Centre for Teaching and Research in School Science and Mathematics. She has dedicated much of her research and professional practice to the enhancement of gender equity at all levels of education. She has published widely in the areas of curriculum and assessment reform, professional development of educators, critical issues in higher education, and policy and practice in the area of gender equity. She has played a major role in several major committees of enquiry into education at both state and national levels in Australia, alerting policy-makers and practitioners to the need for system-wide change to address current inequities in education systems. Wanda S.Pillow is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, where she teaches organizational theory, qualitative inquiry, feminist theory and policy courses. For the past four years she has been involved in research on teen pregnancy policies and programs and is committed to continuing to explore, analyze and voice how attention to and avoidance of gender impacts policy theory and development. Parlo Singh lectures in the Sociology of Education at the Mt. Gravatt Campus of Griffith University. Her current Australian Research Council funded project examines the construction of identities through language and literacy practices in schools, communities and workplaces for Australian-Taiwanese and Australian-Samoan secondary school students. Nelly P.Stromquist is a professor in the School of Education and a Faculty Affiliate in the Center for Feminist Reserch at the University of Southern California. She received her PhD in Education from Stanford University and specializes in gender issues, including education for empowerment, adult literacy, and government policies and practices in girls’ and women’s education. Her main geographical areas are Latin America and West Africa. She has published widely, both in the US and internationally. Recent publicatons include: Literacy for Citizenship: Gender and Grassroots Dynamics in Brazil, and Gender Dimensions in Education in Latin America. She is also the editor of Encyclopedia of Third World Women, a collection of about 80 articles on various issues of gender and development. Gaby Weiner is professor of educational research at South Bank University, London, UK. Involved with feminist issues since the late 1960s, she has tried to bridge the personal and political sides of her life by writing about feminist issues in education. She has published widely on equal opportunities and gender, writing and editing a number of books and research reports. She is currently co-editor (with Lyn Yates and Kathleen Weiler) of the Open University Press series Feminist Educational Thinking. Her most recent publications are: Feminisms in Education: An Introduction, Equal Opportunities in Colleges and Universities and Educational Reform and Gender Equality in Schools. Lois Weis is Professor of Sociology of Education at State University of New York, Buffalo. She is the author, editor or co-author of numerous books and articles, including Working Class Without Work (Routledge), Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race and Gender in US Books (SUNY Press), and the forthcoming Off White (Routledge). Most currently she is working on a Spencer Foundation project with Michelle Fine in which they capture the narrations of poor and working-class African America, Latino/Latina, and white young adults as they make their way through the American contradiction in the
late twentieth century. Michelle and Lois are currently writing up the result of this study for Beacon Press. Bruce Wilson is Director of the Union Research Centre on Organisation and Technology, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. His current research interests are focused on participative design approaches to organization and change and the implications for managers and workers. He is co-author of Confronting School and Work, Shaping Futures, For Their Own Good and Pink Collar Clues: Gender, Technology and Work. Johanna Wyn is an Associate Professor in Education at the University of Melbourne, and Director of the Youth Research Centre. Her research interests are focused on the social and economic processes that affect young people’s lives, particularly in relation to the social divisions of gender and social class. She is co-author of Shaping Futures and Rethinking Youth, as well as numerous monographs and articles. Lyn Yates is an Associate Professor of Education and Director of Women’s Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She has written widely on inequality, feminist theory, curriculum and Australian education policy and practice and is the author of Theory/Practice Dilemmas: Knowledge, Gender and Education (Deakin University, 1991) and The Education of Girls: Policy, Research and the Question of Gender (Acer) and the edited collection, Feminism and Education (La Trobe University Press).
