Hugh Lauder is Professor of Education and Political Economy, and Head of the Policy and Management Research Group, at the University of Bath, UK.Harry Daniels is Professor of Education: Culture and Pedagogy, Head of the Learning as Cultural and Social Practice Research Programme, and Director of the Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research at the University of Bath, UK.Michael Young is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, Visiting Professor at the University of Bath and is an Honorary Professor at the Universities of Pretoria and Witwatersrand and Capital Normal University, Beijing.Maria Balarin is Lecturer in the Department of Education, University of Bath, UK.John Lowe is Lecturer in the Department of Education, University of Bath, UK.