Freire, Paulo: - Paulo Freire is the author of the bestselling Pedagogy of the Oppressed as well as Education for Critical Consciousness, Pedagogy in Process (The Letters to Guinea-Bissau), Learning to Question (with Antonio Faundez), and Pedagogy of the City.

Giroux, Henry A.: - Henry A. Giroux holds the Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. His books include On Critical Pedagogy, 2nd Edition (2020), Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy (2021), Pedagogy of Resistance (2022), Insurrections (2023), Fascism on Trial (co-authored with Anthony DiMaggio) (2024), Teachers as Intellectuals (2024) and Theory and Resistance In Education (2024), all published by Bloomsbury.

Macedo, Donaldo: - Donaldo Macedo is Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. He is co-author, with Paulo Freire, of Literacy: Reading the World and the Word (1987).

McLaren, Peter: - Peter McLaren is Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies at Chapman University, USA, and Co-Director of the Paulo Freire Democratic Project and International Ambassador for Global Ethics and Social Justice. He is also Emeritus Professor of Urban Education, UCLA, USA, and Emeritus Professor of Educational Leadership, Miami University of Ohio, USA. He is also Honorary Director of the Center for Critical Studies in Education in Northeast Normal University, China. He is the author/editor of over forty books including Pedagogy of Insurrection (2015).