Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta is Professor Chair in Education at the School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University, Sweden. She was, until 2016, Professor Chair at Gender Studies, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro university, Sweden. She is the scientific leader of the multidisciplinary network based research environment Communication, Culture and Diversity, CCD, since the end of the 1990s.Aase Lyngvær Hansen is assistant professor (emerita) of Language and Communication from Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her multidisciplinary research focuses on interaction and learning in visually oriented classrooms. She has also worked for many years as teacher of the deaf and as a developer of teaching material for the deaf on video, DVD and internet.Julie Feilberg is assistant professor of Language and Communication at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her research focuses child language development and professional and institutional discourse. She has also served for many years as pro-rector with responsibility for education and quality learning at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.