Brendan P. Carmody is Associate Research Professor at the Institute of Education, University College London; Visiting Professor at St. Mary's University, London, and a former Professor of Education at the University of Zambia. He has worked in teacher education in Zambia for twenty-five years and has written extensively on educational topics. He is the author of Conversion and Jesuit Schooling in Zambia and The Evolution of education in Zambia. Moreover, he has published numerous articles in scholarly journals including Africa, African Affairs, History of Education, and Paedagogica Historica.