Diane Brook NapierDr Diane Brook Napier is a specialist in Comparative and International Education, now retired from the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA where she was an Associate Professor in the College of Education and a member of the UGA Institute of Arican Studies. Born and raised in South Africa; she now resides in the United States. Her research and teaching specialties focus on post-colonial educational reform and democratic transformation policies and their implementation. She has conducted field research on these issues most extensively in South Africa, and she is a long time member of the South African Institute of Race Relations. She has also conducted research in Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba and the UAE. Her research focuses on issues of globalization of education, reform policy-practice; race and deracialisation, ideology, language, justice/injustice, human resources development (in education, health, housing, water supply, labor), also migrant and refugee issues, environmental justice, and teacher education. She has published widely in refereed journals and in collections of research, and she has edited numerous volumes of international comparative education research. She served as Secretary-General of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) from 2012-2014. Read More Read Less