Cover -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Foreword: Hopes of Inclusion/Recognition and Productions of Difference -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1 The Child in the World -- Introduction: Education and the Global/Local Construction of the Universal, Modern, and Globalized Child, School, and Nation -- Part 2 Governing the Universal, Modern Child and Family -- Chapter 1 Educational Theories and Pedagogies as Technologies of Power/Knowledge: Educating the Young Child as a Citizen of an Imagined Nation and World -- Chapter 2 Configuring the Jewish Child: Intersections of Pedagogy and Cultural Identity -- Chapter 3 Problematizing Asian American Children as "Model" Students -- Part 3 Governing the Modern and Normal Child through Pedagogical Discourses -- Chapter 4 Language Learning, Language Teaching, and the Construction of the Young Child -- Chapter 5 The Quest for Health in Different Timespaces -- Chapter 6 How Might Teachers of Young Children Interrogate Images as Visual Culture? -- Chapter 7 The System of Reasoning the Child in Contemporary Japan -- Chapter 8 The Specter of the Abnormal Haunts the Child: A Historical Study of the "Problem-child" in Brazilian Educational Discourses -- Part 4 Governing the Modern and Post-Modern Citizen and Nation through Universal Reforms in Education -- Chapter 9 No Child Left Behind? The Specters of Almsgiving and Atonement: A Short Genealogy of the Saving Grace of U.S. Education -- Chapter 10 Illusions of Social Democracy: Early Childhood Educational Voucher Policies in Taiwan -- Chapter 11 The Foundation Stage Child in a Shifting Sea: A History of the Present of the United Kingdom's Education Act 2002 -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.