Mordechai Gordon is a Professor of Education in the School of Education at Quinnipiac University, USA. His areas of specialization are the philosophy of education, democratic education, and humor. He is the author of six books and numerous articles in scholarly journals such as Educational Theory, Journal of Teacher Education, Oxford Review of Education, and Journal of Aesthetic Education.

Andrea R. English is Chancellor's Fellow in Philosophy of Education at the Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is author of Discontinuity in Learning: Dewey, Herbart, and Education as Transformation (2013), co-editor of John Dewey's Democracy and Education: A Centennial Handbook (2017), and her research on teaching and learning has been published in a range of international journals and edited volumes.