Romuald Normand is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Strasbourg, France. (CNRS Research Unit: Societies, Actors and Government of Europe). He works in the areas of comparative education policies and management. He is the convenor of the network 28 “Sociologies of European Education” at the European Educational Research Association. He is a French Director of the Beijing Normal University’s Chinese-French Center for Innovation in Education and co-editor of the Routledge series Studies in European Education.Liu Min is an Associate Professor at the Institute of International and Comparative Education, Beijing Normal University, and Director of the Beijing Normal University’s Chinese-French Center for Innovation in Education. Her research focuses on education in France, educational governance and policies, and international comparative policies in education.Luís Miguel Carvalho is a Professor of Education at the University of Lisbon, Institute of Education, where he works on the educational policy and administration research & teaching area. His latest research focuses on international comparative assessments, and the making and transnational dissemination of education models and reforms. He is a member of the editorial board of the European Educational Research Journal.Dalila Andrade Oliveira is a Professor of Public Policy and Education at the Faculty of Education and the Graduate Program in Education, Federal University of Minas Gerais. Her research mainly focuses on education policy, school management and teaching in Latin America. She was Vice President of the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Education from 2005 to 2009, and President from 2009 to 2013. Currently she is responsible for the overall coordination of the Latin American Network on Teaching Work Studies (RedEstrado).Louis LeVasseur is a Full Professor at the Faculté des sciences de l’éducation, Université Laval, and an associate fellow with the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la formation et la profession enseignante. A sociologist of education, his work focuses on school culture (instruction, socialization, critique), education in modernity, the history of education in Québec, and education policies.
