David Geoffrey SmithDavid Geoffrey Smith is a Professor of Education at the University of Alberta, Canada. His essays have won awards from the Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies, and the Canadian Association for Foundations in Education. In 2005-2005 he ws awarded the McCalla Research Professorship for Outstanding Contribution to Research and Scholarship at the University of Alberta. In 2011, he was named recipient of the prestigious Ted. T. Aoki Award for Distinguished Service in Canadian Curriculum Studies. His work has been translated into Chinese, and soon, Korean. Previous collections of essays are in Pedagon: Interdisciplinary essays in the human sciences, pedagogy and culture (1999) and Trying to Teach in a Season of Great Untruth: Globalization, Empire and the Crises of Pedagogy (2006) Read More Read Less