Gustavo E. Fischman, associate professor of Curriculum and Policy Studies at Arizona State University is a scholar in comparative education, cultural studies, critical pedagogy, and the development of participatory and action-oriented research programs. Dr. Fischman grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he studied education at the University of Buenos Aires. While pursuing his undergraduate degree, he participated in several literacy and social development projects working with urban poor and indigenous populations. As a member of an interdisciplinary team (1985-1992), Dr. Fischman was engaged in a participatory research project with Mapuche indigenous communities in Buenos Aires, Neuquen, and Río Negro (Argentina). Using a Freirean oriented popular education approaches, Dr. Fischman conducted ethnographic research in the areas of ethnic identity and the learning processes of indigenous students, studied the historical and social conditions of ethnic and gender discrimination, examined the structure of land ownership for the indigenous community, and developed community workshops, assisting teachers and members of the community to develop bilingual-multicultural programs, and cooperatives for production and consumption. In 1992 Dr. Fischman moved to the United States to pursue his doctoral studies at University of California, Los Angeles. In Southern California he continued his commitment to educational practices aimed at the improvement of public education by promoting more participatory and democratic forms of schooling. In the United States, Dr. Fischman has worked with urban schools, migrant populations in projects related to multicultural and bilingual education, and community participation. In 1997 Dr. Fischman obtained his Ph.D. in social sciences and comparative education from UCLA after completing a qualitative research project focusing on gender and class dynamics in teacher education. His doctoral dissertation obtained the 1997 Gail P. Kelly outstanding dissertation of the year award of the Comparative and International Education Society. His areas of specialization are comparative education, gender studies in education, critical pedagogy and the use of image-based methodologies in educational research. Since joining ASU, Dr. Fischman has been teaching graduate seminars on socio-cultural perspectives on educational equity, comparative education and critical pedagogy. His seminar Re-Thinking Paulo Freire and the Politics of Education: Combining the Language of Critique with the Language of Possibility is one of the few graduate courses in North America exclusively dedicated to the discussion of the works of the noted Brazilian critical scholar. The current focus of his research agenda is the analysis of the political-pedagogical discourses of influential newspapers. Through the application of a model of discourse analysis (combining quantitative and qualitative methods), this study aims to identify and analyze the conceptual frames used in editorials and opinions about higher education in nearly 10,000 items published between 1980-2005 in the US and Brazil. He is the author of Imagining Teachers: Rethinking Teacher Education and Gender and La Ley y La Tierra: Historia De Un Despojo En La Tribu Mapuche De Los Toldos and has co-edited Crisis and Hope: The Educational Hopscotch of Latin America, and Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies, and Global Conflicts. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on critical pedagogy, gender issues in teacher education, and higher education in journals such as Educational Researcher, Comparative Education Review, Journal of Education Policy, Gender and Education, Revista de Educacion, Cuadernos de Pedagogia, and Educaçao & Realidade among others. He serves in several editorial boards, and is the associate editor of Education Policy Analysis Archives and Education Review. Dr. Fischman was elected to the Board of directors of the Comparative and International Education Society (2006-2009), is a member of the international board of the World Educational Forum, and is a fellow at Educational Policy Research Unit among other organizations. Fluent in English, Portuguese and his native Spanish, and has been a visiting scholar at universities in Argentina, Brazil, England and Mexico and has lectured throughout Latin America and the United States, and at universities in England, Canada Sweden, Germany, Spain, and China. Gustavo E. Fischman Associate Professor Arizona State University Mary Lou Fulton College of Education Farmer Building 316 G PO Box 872011 Tempe, AZ 85287-2011 Phone: (480) 965-5225. Fax: (480) 965-4942 Email: fischman@asu.edu http://coe.asu.edu/faculty/fischman/