Tina Besley is Professor of Education at Waikato University, New Zealand and Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her four books on Michel Foucault have been critically acclaimed. In 2009, her Subjectivity and Truth : Foucault, Education and the Culture of Self (Peter Lang, 2007), co-authored with Michael A. Peters, was awarded the American Educational Studies Association Critic's Choice Award.
Michael A. Peters is Professor of Education at Waikato University, New Zealand and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the editor of three international journals and the author or editor of over sixty books, including the trilogy Imagination : Three Models of Imagination in the Age of the Knowledge Economy (2010), Global Creation : Space, Connection and Universities in the Age of the Knowledge Economy (2010) and Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy (Peter Lang, 2009), all with Simon Marginson and Peter Murphy.