Editorial

Abstract

After heading the team which developed the proposals for the new journal, and working tirelessly and with great skill to pilot it through its first years, Michael Watts has stepped down as lead editor of Power and Education. Michael was the prime mover in bringing together a team of 38 colleaguesmembers of the editorial board, the reviews editor, regional editors and advisory board-with an international range and an impressive breadth of knowledge of the field. It is greatly to his credit that the journal has consistently lived up to its commitment, spelt out on the web page, of providing a distinctive and comprehensive body of knowledge focusing on the relationships between the concepts of power and education in their broadest senses. We are delighted that Michael will remain a member of the editorial board. His replacement as lead editor is Heather Piper, who has been a member of the editorial board since it began work, and who is also a member of the Discourse, Power, Resistance (DPR) management team.