Teacher of Education in the Department of Educational Leadership at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, USA. Originally from Spain, Encarna worked as an educational psychologist for the Ministry of Education and Science between 1986 and 1994. During these eight years she participated in the socialist educational reform that culminated in the General System of Education Regulation Act (LOGSE) in 1990. This experience is documented in her doctoral thesis at The Pennsylvania State University in 1999 and later in the book Neoliberalism, Education and Gender: A Critical Analysis of the Spanish Educational Reform (La Piqueta, 2001). Her research on neoliberalism and education has been published in magazines such as Educational Philosophy and Theory, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing y Journal of Education. Encarna has also written about the internationalization of teacher training, research that has been published in journals such as Teacher Education Quarterly y Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly. She is also the editor of Pedagogies and Curriculums to (Re)imagine Public Education: Transnational Tales of Hopes and Resistance (Springer, 2015), the original English version of this book.