Gülay Aslan
is an Associate Professor in the field of Educational Administration, Inspection, Economy and Planning. Among her fields of interests are equality in education, discrimination in education, critical education studies, gender, higher education policies, and neo-liberal education policies.
Peter Carroll
has been a Dean and Research Professor at the University of Tasmania and University of Wollongong, and an adjunct Professor at the Australian National University. He has published on a wide variety of topics in a range of public policy and administration journals, as well as a number of research books, including The OECD: A Study of Organisational Adaptation (Edward Elgar, 2011), Middle Powers and International Organisations – Australia and the OECD (Edward Elgar, 2017), and The OECD: A Decade of Transformation: 2011–2021 (De Gruyter, 2021, co-authored with Aynsley Kellow).
Peter also has a lengthy and continuing consulting experience including consultancies for governments in the UK, the South Pacific, the West Indies, Papua New Guinea, New South Wales, Queensland, and for the OECD, World Bank, ERIA and the UK Department of International Business.
Aynsley Kellow
is Professor Emeritus of Government at the University of Tasmania. He has published widely, especially with Peter Carroll, with whom he has published three books on the OECD. Their most recent is The OECD: A Decade of Transformation: 2011–2021 (De Gruyter, 2021).
Dilşat Peker Ünal
graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Educational Sciences, Curriculum and Instruction Program in 1994. She completed her master’s degree in 1999 and her doctorate in 2010 at the same university. Between 1994 and 2010, she worked as an education specialist in the central organization of the Ministry of National Education. During her tenure at the Ministry of National Education, she took part in various projects and conducted national and international research. She has been working at Yozgat Bozok University Faculty of Education since 2013. She is the Farabi Coordinator and the assistant director of the Yozgat Bozok University Continuing Education Center (BOSUYAM). Dilşat Peker Ünal has editorships, book chapters, projects and articles on
Allan Pitman
is Professor Emeritus in the Education Faculty at the University of Western Ontario. He holds degrees from the University of Melbourne, Latrobe University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has held tenured positions at Deakin University in Australia and at the University of Western Ontario and was a Research Consultant in the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. He is a former President of the Comparative and International Education of Canada and was awarded its David Wilson Award for his contribution to comparative and international education. His principal research interests are mathematics education and society, the changing nature of the university and the nature of professional practice.
Selda Polat Hüsrevşahi
is a professor in the Department of Educational Sciences at the University of Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University. She completed her doctoral degree in Education Management at the University of Ankara, Turkey, 2008. Her writing and research has been in the area of Education and Social Justice, Education and Socioeconomic İnequality, Critical Theory and Education.
Hümeyra Toğan
is a social psychologist who works at Ministry of National Education in Turkey. Her doctoral study is on-going at Ankara University in Educational Economics and Planning. Some of her field of studies are Critical Education, Education of Disadvantaged Groups, Diversity in Education, Discrimination in Education, Political Participation, Education Policies, Education Organizations and Crisis Management in Psychological and Sociological Contexts.
Mehmet Toğan
is a class teacher who has been dealing with information technologies in education for a long time. He works at the Ministry of National Education in Turkey, and is a member and activist of an education union.
David A. Turner
is Professor of Comparative Education in the Institute of International and Comparative Education, Beijing Normal University, and Emeritus Professor at the University of South Wales. He has published books and articles on the theory of education, the history and finance of education, and comparative and international education.
received a bachelor’s degree in history, a master’s degree in public administration, a doctorate in educational economics and planning. She also received postgraduate training on human rights and state philosophy. From 2000 to 2018, she worked as a teacher at different levels for the Ministry of National Education in various schools as a history teacher and social studies teacher in Turkey. Presently, she is working as a lecturer in the Department of Educational Sciences, Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University in Turkey. She teaches “Philosophy of Education”, “History of Education”, “Turkish Education System and School Administration”, “Morality and Ethics in Education”, “Education Economy and Planning” at the faculty where she works. Her research interests are related to education economy, education philosophy, education policy, critical education, and also ontology, epistemology, and methodology of social science.
Hüseyin Yolcu
is a professor of educational administration in the Kastamonu University Faculty of Education in Turkey. He conducts research about the social inequalities in educational financing and the comparative impact of educational policies.