LIZ STEEL Head of Humanities and Social Science at Halifax New College, UK. She is an experienced teacher of Sociology. WARREN KIDD Senior Lecturer of Education at the University of East London, UK, and is an experienced teacher of Sociology as A Level. He is author of Culture and Identity and co-author of Political Sociology. ANNE BROWN Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Leicester, UK.

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