Carmen Blyth completed her Ph.D. in 2015 on Ethics in international schools at the University of Cape Town. She was a postdoctoral research fellow with the Decolonizing Early Childhood Discourses research project at the same university. She has worked with international schools and universities in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East for over 30 years as an EAP/ESL/EAL teacher, teacher trainer, and department founder. She currently enjoys mentoring Ph.D. and IB Diploma candidates and has a special interest in the links between linguistic diversity and biodiversity, and the rights of other language speakers in institutions where English is the medium of instruction.

Teresa K. Aslanian completed her Ph.D. in 2019 on the concept of care in Norwegian early childhood education at Olso Metropolitan University. She holds the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Early Childhood Education, University of South-Eastern Norway. Her background as an early childhood educator informs her research, which is concerned with holistic learning, play and love as a professional practice in early childhood education.