Larry has spent his academic career at the Australian National University, where he has been both Head of Department (Sociology) and Dean of the Faculty of Arts. He has published in the fields of sociology of education, comparative education, student career plans, and student political socialisation. In the sociology of education his books include Education and National Development: A Comparative Perspective (Pergamon, 1983, 1989), Schooling and Society in Australia (1990), and The International Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Education (Pergamon, 1997). More recently his books include the The Untested Accusation: Principals, Research Knowledge and Policy Making in Schools (Ablex Publishers 2002/2005) and International Handbook of Research on Tearchers and Teaching (Springer, 2009).His publications in political socialisation have been Youth Participation in Politics (Sense Publishers, 2007) and Nation-Building, Identity and Citizenship Education (Springer Publishers 2009.As a visitor, Larry has lectured and/or given courses at the University of Stockholm, the University of Oslo, The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil), and the University of Otago (New Zealand). He has been visiting fellow at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), Stanford University, the International Institute for Educational Planning (UNESCO, Paris) and the University of Houston. He also was a resident fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center in Italy. Larry is currently Editor-in-Chief for Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, and he is on the Board of the Research Committee for Social Psychology (RC42) of the International Sociological Association. Specialties: Sociology of EducationPolitical SocializationCollective Behavior and Social MovementsSocial Psychology