Csilla WENINGER is associate professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research examines the imprint and impact of political and institutional ideologies on the conduct of schooling, including its material dimensions such as textbooks as well as everyday literacies and literacy pedagogies, working from a critical social semiotic perspective. Her publications have appeared, among others, in Discourse, TESOL Quarterly, Linguistics and Education, Language in Society and ELT Journal.