Zongyi Deng is Professor of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London. He is also an executive editor of the Journal of Curriculum Studies (JCS) and he has held faculty positions at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and at the University of Hong Kong. His interest areas include curriculum content, curriculum theory, didactics (Didaktik), curriculum policy and reform, and comparative and international education. His publications appear in JCS, Curriculum Inquiry, Comparative Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, British Educational Research Journal, Comparative Education, Cambridge Journal of Education, Science Education and other international journals. His latest book is Knowledge, content, curriculum theory and Didaktik: Beyond social realism (Routledge).