Thomas S. Popkewitz is professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin and associate professor in the Center for Teacher Education Research. His research on problems and issues of school reform, teaching and teacher education have appeared in journals published in the United States, Australia and Europe. He is coauthor, with Robert Tabachnick and Gary Wehlage, The Myth of Educational Reform (University of Wisconsin Press, 1982), a study of the impact of a national reform program of the elementary school, and has coordinated numerous books on historical issues, social and methodologies related to the study of change. His book Paradigm and Ideology in Educational Research (Falmer, 1984), which deals with the relationship between social and philosophical assumptions in educational research, was cited by the American Educational Studies Association as "one of the most outstanding books on education in recent years. "This book and Critical Studies in Teacher Education (Falmer, 1987) have been translated into Castilian. (Paradigm and ideology in educational research, Madrid, Mondadori, 1988 and Teacher Education. Tradition, theory and practice, Valencia, Publicacions Servei of the University, 1990) also has published in Hungary, Norway and the Soviet Union. He received a grant in the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in Social Science and has named him an honorary doctorate for his contribution to studies on education reform and research (Umecl Universitet, Sweden, 1989). He has been project manager and principal investigator in national evaluations of school reform and teacher education, including national studies on the impact of domestic programs of the Corps of Professors, individual teaching directed and the Ford Foundation's Urban Mathematics Collaborative. He has given courses on problems of the study of educational reform in Europe, Asia and Australia. Currently studying alternative teacher training programs in the United States and directs a project on the relationship between educational research, educational researchers and social movements in ten países.Asimismo, Thomas S. Popkewitz is Senior International Academician of the Russian Academy of Education (1996). Honorary Doctor of the University of Umea, Sweden (1989), University of Lisbon, Portugal (2001) of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (2004), and the University of Helsinki, Finland (2007).