Joel Austin Windle is Professor of Modern Languages, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University, Australia. He is the author of Making Sense of School Choice (Palgrave, 2015, Winner of the Raewyn Connell and Stephen Crook prizes).

Dánie de Jesus is Professor of English, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil. He has edited volumes in Portuguese entitled Critical Perspectives on Language Teaching (Pontes, 2017) and Studies on Gender: Identities, Discourse and Education (Pontes, 2017).

Lesley Bartlett is Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She is co-author (with Frances Vavrus) of Rethinking Case Study Research (Routledge, 2015) and co-editor (with Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher) of Refugees, Immigrants, and Education in the Global South: Lives in Motion (Routledge, 2012).

Joel Windle, Danie de Jesus and Lesley Bartlett: Introduction: The Dynamics of Language and Inequality in Global Schooling

Section 1: The Shifting Boundaries of Linguistic Inequality

Chapter 1. Dennys Silva-Reis and Marcos Bagno: Across Linguistic Boundaries: Language as a Dimension of Power in the Colonization of the Brazilian Amazon

Chapter 2. Joel Windle and Kassandra Muniz: Navigating Soft and Hard Boundaries: Race and Educational Inequality at the Borderlands

Chapter 3. Daariimaa Marav: Rural-Urban Divides and Digital Literacy in Mongolian Higher Education

Section 2: Language, Ideology and Inequality

Chapter 4. Teresa Speciale: A Cycle of Shame: How Shaming Perpetuates Language Inequalities in Dakar, Senegal

Chapter 5. Indika Liyanage and Suresh Canagarajah: The Role of Shame in Drawing Social Boundaries for Empowerment: ELT in Kiribati

Chapter 6. Junia C. S. Mattos Zaidan: "Authenticity" and Symbolic Violence in Constructions of Teacher Competence

Chapter 7. Maria do Socorro Alencar Nunes Macedo, Daniele Alves Ribeiro, Euclides de Freitas Couto, and André Luan Nunes Macedo: Knowledge Politics, Language, and Inequality in Educational Publishing

Section 3: Transgression and Agency

Chapter 8. Carolyn McKinney: Decoloniality and language in education: Transgressing Language Boundaries in South Africa

Chapter 9. Dánie de Jesus: Queering Literacy in Brazilian Higher Education: Questioning the Boundaries of the Normalized Body

Chapter 10. Osman Z. Barnawi and Phan Le-Ha: "Saudi Women Are Finally Allowed to Sit behind the Wheel": Initial Responses from TESOL Classrooms