Chapter 1 Introduction: Education and the Global/Local Construction of the Universal, Modern, and Globalized Child, School, and Nation

Chapter 2 Educational Theories and Pedagogies as Technologies of Power/Knowledge: Educating the Young Child as a Citizen of an Imagined Nation and World

Chapter 3 Configuring the Jewish Child: Intersections of Pedagogy and Cultural Identity

Chapter 4 Problematizing Asian American Children as “Model” Students

Chapter 5 Language Learning, Language Teaching, and the Construction of the Young Child

Chapter 6 The Quest for Health in Different Timespaces

Chapter 7 How Might Teachers of Young Children Interrogate Images as Visual Culture?

Chapter 8 The System of Reasoning the Child in Contemporary Japan

Chapter 9 The Specter of the Abnormal Haunts the Child: A Historical Study of the “Problem-child” in Brazilian Educational Discourses

Chapter 10 No Child Left Behind? The Specters of Almsgiving and Atonement: A Short Genealogy of the Saving Grace of U.S. Education

Chapter 11 Illusions of Social Democracy: Early Childhood Educational Voucher Policies in Taiwan

Chapter 12 The Foundation Stage Child in a Shifting Sea: A History of the Present of the United Kingdom’s Education Act 2002