Professor Jane Kenway was Foundation Director of the Deakin Centre for Education and Change from 1993 until July 1999 when she took up a Chair in the School of Education at the University of South Australia. She teaches Educational Policy and Administration and her research expertise is in education policy with reference to schools and education systems in the context of wider social and cultural change. Within this focus she has a specific interest in issues of justice, gender, locality and technology. She has published widely in international and national refereed journals, in books and in professional journals for the education profession. Dr Elizabeth Bullen has a background in the humanities. Her PhD thesis explored representations of masculinities in recent Australian fiction. She has taught literature and professional English subjects at The Flinders University of South Australia. In 2000, she published several articles written with Jane Kenway in British education journals. She currently works as a research associate in the Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures at the University of South Australia. Her research interests include gender, postmodernity, postcoloniality and popular culture.