About Alan Sears Alan Sears is Professor of Sociology at Ryerson University, Toronto. He is the author of Retooling the Mind Factory: Education in a Lean State (UTP, 2003) and co-author with James Cairns of The Democratic Imagination (UTP, 2012). Books by Alan Sears Bringing History to Life Teaching Fact and Fiction edited by Marc-André Éthier & David Lefrançois translated by Judith Weisz Woodsworth contributions by Penney Clark, Alan Sears, Etienne Anheim, Charles-Antoine Bachand, Julien Bazile, Audrey Bélanger, Jean-François Boutin, Vincent Boutonnet, Olivier Côté, Stéphanie Demers, Simon Dor, Alexandre Lanoix, Virginie Martel, Anik Meunier, Sabrina Moisan, Carla Peck, Bastien Sasseville, Valérie Theis & Marie-Pierre Tremblay series edited by Nicholas Ng-A-Fook & Carole Fleuret