Culture in Education and Education in Culture: Tensioned Dialogues and Creative Constructions

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'.