Authors (JSSE 4-2009)

Journal of Social Science Education:

Volume 8, Number 4, © JSSE 2009, ISSN 1618-5293

	Elisabeth Chatel is senior research fellow in educational sociology at STEF-INRP a laboratory of the “Ecole nationale superieure de Cachan”. Hers majors research interests are about evaluation of educational systems, mesures in education and school curriculum. Homepage (not updated since 2005): http://www.idhe.ens-cachan.fr/bib2.htm E-mail: elisabeth.chatel@gmail.com
	Georgi Dimitrov, Dr. Habil. is professor of sociology at European Studies Department, “St. Kl. Ohridski” University of Sofia. He has been Fulbright Senior Researcher at Chicago University (2002-2003) and George Washington University (2009). He is lecturing courses in History of sociology, Modernity and modernization, European civilizing process. He has carried out research work and has published a lot on three major topics – history of sociology and sociology of sociology, sociology of higher education and education reforms; post-communist transitions and civil society building. E-mail: gd@sclg.uni-sofia.bg
	Aladin El-Mafaalani is a teacher at a vocational college and a lecturer at the Faculty of Social Science at the Ruhr-University Bochum and at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Dortmund (both Germany). His main research interests are: Sociology of Education, Social Policy and Social Inequality. Homepage: homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Aladin.El-Mafaalani/ E-mail: Aladin.El-Mafaalani@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
	Vjeran Katunarić is a professor of sociology at the University of Zagreb. His books and research articles deal with subjects as different as the socioeconomic position of migrant workers, women and society, the decomposition of society, recent theories of nation and nationalism, and culture and development. His recent research and teaching has largely been devoted to theory building in sociology. He was guest professor in the USA and Sweden, and a cultural policy expert of the Council of Europe. Homepage: www.ffzg.hr/socio/mambo/index.php E-Mail: vjeran.katunaric@zg.t-com.hr
	Drs. Lieke Meijs is sociologist who has been teacher social studies since 1978. She started working as a social science specialist at the SLO, the Netherlands Institute for Curriculum Development, Enschede, in 1997. She is also a member of the board of the journal Maatschappij en Politiek (Society and Politics). Recently she was secretary content of the commission, designing the examination program for social sciences.
	Prof. Dr. Ariana Need Professor of Sociology of Public Governance at the School of Management and Governance, University of Twente, The Netherlands. She is currently an associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford and a member of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. As a sociologist, she was responsible for the website www.maatschappijleerwerkstuk.nl, a Dutch website for students of secondary schools. This website aims to make a bridge between sociology as a discipline and social studies and social sciences in secondary education. Homepage: www.mb.utwente.nl/mrv/staff/professorate/need/
	Dr. Maria Olson is a researcher and lecturer at the School of Communication and Information at University of Skövde, Sweden, and at the Department of Education in Humanities and Social Science at Stockholm University, Sweden. She received her doctorate in Pedagogic Practices, with a minor in Political Science, at the University of Linköping, Sweden. Her major fields are Educational Policy and Educational Theory. Her areas of specialisation include Citizenship education, Globalisation and Existential approaches to issues on democracy and citizenship in education. She is part of the recently finished research project “What about equivalence? Studies of language use in Swedish Education Policy”, and is Institutional Coordinator for the European research network CiCe - Children’s Identity and Citizenship in Europe. Homepage: www.his.se/olom
	Marianne Papke ist seit 1972 Studienrätin mit den Fächern Soziologie, Biologie und Sport und lehrte 6 Jahre als Dozentin an der Bremer Universität im Fachbereich Sportwissenschaft in den Schwerpunkten Koedukationsforschung und Sportsoziologie. Sie gestaltete im Rahmen der Schulbegleitforschung längerfristig ein sportwissenschaftliches Forschungsprojekt. Ein anderer Schwerpunkt ihrer Arbeit lag in ihrer schulübergreifenden Agenda-21 Projektarbeit in Koordination mit entwicklungspolitischen Arbeitskreisen und dem Bremer Informationszentrum für Menschenrechte und Entwicklung (biz). Weitere bildungspolitische, politikdidaktische und gewerkschaftliche Arbeits- und Projektgruppen ergänzten diese Arbeit und führten zu einigen Veröffentlichungen. Sie ist Initiatorin eines Nicaraguaprojektes seit 2005.
	Dr. Elena Stoykova is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, “St. Kliment Ohridski“ University of Sofia. She is lecturing courses in Sociology, Sociology of Gender and Content Analysis at the University of Sofia. She wrote her PhD about the school socialization of gender roles during the communist regime in Bulgaria (2007). Then she has worked as a research fellow at the Center for Policy Studies, Central European University in Budapest (2007-2009) studying the public policies of gender and equality in the EU context. She has continued her research work on elaboration of methodology for content analysis of textbooks and normative documents in relation to civic education and human rights issues (2009-2010). She has published on school and higher education, gender and communism. Her major fields of interest are Gender Studies, Sociology of Education, Qualitative Research and Historical Sociology. E-mail: elena@stoykova.org
	Dr. Bettina Zurstrassen Assistant Professor of didactics of social science at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Her research is focusing on teaching profession and political education at vocational schools. E-mail: bettina.zurstrassen@rub.de