ELIZABETH RATA is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Political Studies, University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is a founding member of the Politics of Social Regulation Research Group and author of "A Political Economy of Neotribal Capitalism." ROGER OPENSHAW is Chair in the History of Education at Massey University, New Zealand. He is co-editor of "Struggles Over Difference: Curriculum, Texts and Pedagogy in the Asia-Pacific" which was awarded the 2006 American Education Research Association Outstanding Book of the Year: Curricu...