Preliminary Material / Eero Ropo -- Globalization, Curriculum, and New Belongings of Subjectivity / Tero Autio -- Bildung and the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies / William F. Pinar -- Curriculum Studies and Transnational Flows and Mobilities: Feminist Autobiographical Perspectives / Janet L. Miller -- Curriculum, Narrative and the Social Future / Ivor F. Goodson -- Democratic Education – Educating for Democracy / Heinz Sünker -- Political Governing and Curriculum Change – from Active to Reactive Curriculum Reforms / Ulf P. Lundgren -- Wisdom as Compassion: Social Justice in the Narratives of Kuan Yin and Julian of Norwich / Petra Munro Hendry -- Curriculum and Serres’s “New Organization of Knowledge” / Denise Egéa-Kuehne -- Globalisation, Curriculum and Assessment / maria palmira Alves, , José Carlos morgado and José Augusto pacheco -- An Analysis of Disciplinarity on the Organization of School Knowledge / Alice Casimiro Lopes and Elizabeth Macedo -- The Ongoing Curriculum Reform In China: Philosophy, Objectives, and Structure / Zhang Hua -- Toward an In-depth Comparative Study of the School Curricula and Practices in Japan and Finland / Shigeru Asanuma -- Re-thinking Curriculum Change from the Place of the Teacher / Terrance R. Carson -- Reform in Turkish Elementary Mathematics Curriculum / Sinan Olkun and Cem Babadogan -- Transforming Language Curricula Through a Research and Development Project – A Case from Finland / Raili Hildén -- The Winding Road Towards Cef-integrated Curricula / Dany Etienne -- Continuity and Change: Recent Developments in the Russian Curriculum for the Comprehensive School / Sirkka Laihiala-kankainen -- Power, Knowledge and Curriculum Change in Australia / Colin Marsh and Catherine Harris-hart -- Globalization and Educational Identities / José Augusto Pacheco and Nancy Pereira -- Border and Cultural Identity / Andrzej Zaporowski -- Is There no Outside of Curriculum-as-text? / James Anthony Whitson -- Portugal’s Colonized Colonialism / João M. Paraskeva -- Current Debates and Contemporary Issues in French Curriculum Studies / Denise Egéa-kuehne -- Contributors / Eero Ropo -- Author index / Eero Ropo -- Subject index / Eero Ropo.

This collection of essays from the most prominent scholars in the field of curriculum studies paint an intellectually rich palette of the present state of curriculum research across the countries and continents when the traditionally prevailed national imaginaries give increasingly way to transnational, international, and postnational impulses. The main parameters of education, subjectivity and its belonging, is shifting by employing the contradictory and broader issues around the question of nation and nation-state as well as around its traditional educational counterpart, the psychologized individual, both radically reinterpreted by post- and rereadings of old educational and social canons. International Conversations on Curriculum identifies the present transformations at work nationwide, worldwide, between and beyond, by focusing on these shifts from a variety of methodological, theoretical, national, political, and pedagogic concerns. It will open new and, one could argue, compelling vistas for reconsidering the social and political mission and moral purpose of education policies, of curriculum theory and practice in the increasingly but unevenly connected world characterized by economic volatility, unfair trade, ethnic and religious conflicts, and growing social instability and collective existential insecurity. As such, the essays are a vital international testimony to the scholarly vibrancy and to the global awareness of the current intellectualized field of curriculum studies to alertly recognize and register the cultural, educational, and political urgencies of our times.

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