It is our pleasure to take over the editorship of this online journal from founding coeditors Brent Davis and Renata Phelps. In the last four years Brent and Renata have worked to establish a solid foundation for this forum and have attracted a most interesting range of contributions. As we see it, our task as their successors is to ensure that the journal grows in strength and reputation as well as providing an increasingly useful space of conversation for those interested in the idea of complexity in relation to education and educational research. The challenge, however, is to do so in a way that is not at odds with the notion of complexity itself. For us, editing a journal of complexity and education raises an interesting philosophical problem associated with the notion of gatekeeping1. We believe that in deciding which information will go forward and which will not, the traditional gatekeeping role of journal editors (and the reviewers they work with) can be