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Paul Adams is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social and Policy Studies in Education at the College of Education, Massey University. His research interests lie in policy studies, and he teaches professional studies papers in pre-service teacher education and in the BA, Bed and Med programmes. He is the co-editor (with Dr Roger Openshaw) of the education text Education and Society y in Aotearoa New Zealand: An Introduction to the Social and Political Contexts of Education (2000); co-editor (with Dr Heather Ryan) of Learning to Reading in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Collaboration between Early Childhood Teachers, Families and Schools (2002); and co-author (with Judy Hamer) of The New Zealand Early Childhood Literacy Handbook (2003). His qualifications are in the areas of sociology, special education, educational psychology and music.

Roger Openshaw has a Personal Chair in History of Education in the Department of Social and Policy Studies in Education in the College of Education, Massey University. He has a wide interest in education with a particular interest in school curriculum history. He has published numerous books, articles and conference papers, nationally and internationally, including Challenging the Myths (with Greg and Howard Lee), New Horizons for New Zealand Social Studies (with Pamela Benson), and Between Two Worlds: A History of the Palmerston North College of Education. In addition, publications for 2005 include Democracy at the Crossroads (with Cameron White), Critical Pedagogy Around the Pacific Rim (with Allan Luke and Yoshiko Nozaki), and Our Children Still Can¿t Read (with Janet Soler).

Judy Hamer is a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education with The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand. She teaches in the Diploma of Teaching (Early Childhood Education) with special responsibility for program development. Judy worked for a number of years in early childhood education as well as in early childhood teacher education for Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa/NZCA. She is co-author (with Paul Adams) of The New Zealand Early Childhood Literacy Handbook (2003), and co-author (with Caroline Barratt-Pugh and colleagues) of Early Childhood Literacy Learning: Practical Ideas for the Early Years (2005, forthcoming). Her research interests lie in early childhood education and include social and policy issues and curriculum studies (including literacy).