Yoshiko Nozaki is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Roger Openshaw has a Personal Chair in Education History at Massey University at Palmerston North in New Zealand. Allan Luke is Professor of Education at the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Introduction
Yoshiko Nozaki, Roger Openshaw, and Allan Luke

1. Curriculum, Ethics, Metanarrative: Teaching and Learning Beyond the Nation
Allan Luke

2. "... Nothing Objectionable or Controversial": The Image of Maori Ethnicity and "Difference" in New Zealand Social Studies
Roger Openshaw

3. State Formation, Hegemony, and Chinese School Curricula in Singapore and Hong Kong, 1945¿1965
Ting-Hong Wong

4. Official Knowledge and Hegemony: The Politics of the Textbook Deregulation Policy in Taiwan
Jyh-Jia Chen

5. Thai English Language Textbooks, 1960¿2000: Postwar Industrial and Global Changes
Noparat Suaysuwan and Cushla Kapitzke

6. The Construction of Culture Knowledge in Chinese Language Textbooks: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Yongbing Liu

7. New Ideologies of Everyday Life in South Korean Language Textbooks
Dong Bae (Isaac) Lee

8. Environmental Education and Development in China
Darren M. O'Hern

9. School Knowledge and Classed and Gendered Subjectivities in South Korean Commercial High Schools
Misook Kim

10. Identity Conversion, Citizenship, and Social Studies: Asian-Australian Perspectives on Indigenous Reconciliation and Human Rights
Michael Singh

11. Fastening and Unfastening Identities: Negotiating Identity in Hawai'i
Gay Garland Reed

12. The Question of Identity and Difference: The Resident Korean Education in Japan
Hiromitsu Inokuchi and Yoshiko Nozaki

13. History, Postmodern Discourse, and the Japanese Textbook Controversy over "Comfort Women"
Yoshiko Nozaki

Contributors
Index