John Baldacchino is currently Chair of Arts Education at the University of Dundee in Scotland. As an academic Baldacchino specializes in art, philosophy, politics and education. He is the author of numerous refereed and journalistic articles in academic and political journals. Between 1983 and 1990 he regularly published journalistic articles and critical essays in political journals and newspapers language and was also a graphic artist and political cartoonist, contributing work on a weekly basis. More recently he has resumed writing on civil issues and political reform, though his focus remains on academic writing. http://www.johnbaldacchino.com