Volume 4 Number 1 – March 2006

Thomas Muhr and Antoni Verger
Venezuela: Higher Education For All

Kedir Assefa Tessema
Contradictions, Challenges, and Chaos in Ethiopian Teacher Education

Brad J Porfilio and Tian Yu
“Student as Consumer”: A Critical Narrative of the Commercialization of Teacher Education

Christopher Lubienski
School Choice and Privatization in Education: An Alternative Analytical Framework

Curry Malott
Schooling in an Era of Corporate Dominance: Marxism against Burning Tires

Editors

Founding Editor
Prof Dave Hill
Emeritus Professor of Education at Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, England; Visiting Professor of Education at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; Research Fellow of the Research Center of Contemporary China, Wuhan University, Hubei, China

Co-Editors
Dr Vinicius Neves de Cabral Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), Paraná, Brazil
Dr Sara Carpenter University of Toronto, Canada
Dr Derek Ford DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, USA
Dr, Dave Hill Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, England;
Dr Jesus Jaime-Diaz University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Dr. Nurcan Korkmaz University of Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
Dr Alpesh Maisuria University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Prof Kostas Skordoulis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Dr Spyros Themelis University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

Joint Deputy Editors
Prof Peter McLaren
Chapman University, Orange, California, USA

Dr Theopula (Polina) Chrysochou
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Editorial Board
The Nine Co-Editors, plus:
Prof Hasan Aksoy
Ankara University, Turkey
Prof Dennis Beach
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Dr Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bak
Educational Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Dr Sandra Delgado
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota
Dr Gail Edwards
Newcastle University, Newcastle, England
Prof Pablo Gentili
State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dr Tom Griffiths
Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway
Dr Kemal Inal
Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany
Dr Sharon Jones
Independent Researcher, England, UK
Dr Ravi Kumar
South Asian University, New Delhi, India
Dr Curry Malott
West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Dr Gregory Martin
University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Dr Zinnia Mevawalla
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Dr Silvia Redon Pantoja
Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile
Dr Jyoti Raina
University of Delhi, India
Dr Felix Angulo Rasco
Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Valparaiso, Chile
Dr Lotar Rasinski
The University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, Poland
Dr Arturo Rodriguez
Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, USA
Dr Kat Simpson
University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, England, UK
Dr Alisson Slider do Nascimento de Paula
Centro Universitário Inta – UNINTA, Sobral, Ceará, Brazil
Dr Bill Templer
independent researcher, Bulgaria
Dr Josefine Wagner
University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Dr Hannah Walters
University College London, London, England, UK
Dr Paolo Vittoria
University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Dr Ahmet Yildiz
Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey

Administrators
Naomi Hill
Joshua Akehurst, MSc
Hannah Hunt, MSc