Troubling Gender in Education

Jo-Anne Dillabough is a Reader at the University of Cambridge, UK, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She is co-editor of Challenging Democracy: International Perspectives on Gender, Education and Citizenship and Globalisation, Education and Social Change. Her forthcoming co-authored book is entitled Lost Youth in the Global City (with J. Kennelly, 2009). Julie McLeod is an Associate Professor in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne. She is co-editor (with Andrea Allard) of Learning from the Margins: Young Women, Education and Social Exclusion; and co-author (with Lyn Yates) of Making Modern Lives: Subjectivity, Schooling and Social Change; and (with Rachel Thomson) of Researching Social Change: Qualitative Approaches. Martin Mills is a Professor in the School of Education, The University of Queensland, and Visiting Professor at Roehampton University, London. He is the editor of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. He is co-author of Teachers and Schooling: Making a Difference (with Deb Hayes, Pam Christie & Bob Lingard) and Teaching Boys (with Amanda Keddie).