The Author: John Smyth is Foundation Professor of Teacher Education and Associate Dean (Research) at the Flinders University of South Australia and Director of the Flinders Institute for the Study of Teaching. He received his Ph.D. in education from the University of Alberta. He has held a Senior Fulbright Research Award and the Palmer O. Johnson Award for the most outstanding piece of published research by the American Educational Research Association. He is the author/editor of thirteen books, the most recent including: Remaking Teaching: Ideology, Policy and Practice (with Shacklock); Schooling for a Fair Go (with Hattam and Lawson); and Teachers¿ Work in a Globalising Economy (with Dow, Hattam, Shacklock, and Reid).