The Editors: Ulrike Mietzner passed her Erstes Staatsexamen from Technische Universit�t, Berlin, in 1983 (Arts, English, Teacher Education, History). She obtained her Ph.D. in History from Technische Universit�t, Berlin, 1993. She is now Professor of History of Education at Potsdam University. She is currently working on images of the Jewish youth movement and communal education in Germany, Palestine and Israel. Kevin Myers received his BSc in Social Sciences from Bradford University in 1994 and his Ph.D. in History from Coventry University in 2000. He is a lecturer in Social History at the University of Birmingham. He has recently written a number of articles on the use of history in processes of identity formation. Nick Peim received his BA from Cambridge in English in 1975, his PGCE from Cambridge in 1976 and his MA also from Cambridge in 1978. His Ph.D. was in Cultural Politics of the Curriculum (1998). He is a lecturer in education at the University of Birmingham. His current work addresses language as social action and education after postmodernism.