Part I: Perspectives on the challenge of globalization
Ch 1. Education, competition and cultural development
Ch 2. What is disruptive about disruptive behavior?
Ch 3. Buildung, motivation, and deliberative democracy in primary education
Ch 4. Commentary To Part 1: Perspectives on the Challenge of Globalization
Part II: Constructing Culturally Responsive Education
Ch 5. Cultural Security in Australian Classrooms: Entanglements with Mainstream Education as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children Transition to School
Ch 6. A Cultural-Historical Model to Inform Culturally Responsive Pedagogies: Case Studies of Educational Practices in Solomon Islands and Australia
Ch 7. Nhembo’ea reko regua: trajectories of the Mbya Guarani struggles for a differentiated education
Ch 8. Education for beauty in the Laje Collection and the emergence of creative work at the outskirts of Salvador, Brazil
Ch 9.Commentary to Part II: Constructing culturally responsive education
Part III: Educational cultivation of personal lives
Ch 10. Identity in education and education in identities. Connecting curriculum and school practice to students’ lives and identities
Ch 11. Using symbolic resources to overcome institutional barriers: a case study of an Albanian-speaking young woman in Switzerland
Ch 12. Teacher identity in structural reflective workshops: A view from China
Ch 13. Children’s development – between personal engagements and curriculum based pre-school practices
Ch 14. Commentary to Part III: Cultural perspectives on self/identity issues, prejudice and symbolic resources
Ch 15. Editors’ conclusion: Imagining an education for ’good life’.