Linda J. Rogers is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Kent State University and Executive Director of the Semiotic Society of America. She is the author of Wish I Felt Pathways of the Self . Beth Blue Swadener is Professor of Early Childhood Education at Kent State University and the coeditor (with Sally Lubeck) of Children and Families "At Promise" Deconstructing the Discourse of Risk , and author (with Margaret Kabiru and Anne Njenga) of Does the Village Still Raise the Child?: A Collaborative Study of Changing Child-Rearing and Early Education in Kenya , both published by SUNY Press, and coeditor (with Shirley A. Kessler) of Reconceptualizing the Early Childhood Beginning the Dialogue .