Preface; Empires, Post-Coloniality and Interculturality: New Challenges for Comparative Education; Section I: From Empires, History and Memory: Comparative Studies of Education; Comparative Studies and the Reasons of Reason: Historicizing Differences and "Seeing" Reforms in Multiple Modernities; Complexity of History-Complexity of the Human Being. Education, Comparative Education, and Early Modernity; Time, Location and Identity of WWII-Related Museums: An International Comparative Analysis; Citizenship, Values and Social Orders. The Assessment System of Census and Ritual Education in Ancient Rome; Science and Educational Models in Europe. From Disaster of 98 to the Weimar Republic (1898-1932); Section II: Learning and Assessment Processes: An International Perspective; High Performance in Reading Comprehension in Poverty Conditions in South America: The Case of Resilient Students in Pisa 2009 in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay; Approaches to Assist Policy-Makers' Use Of Research Evidence in Education in Europe; Redesigning Curricula Across Europe: Implications for Learners' Assessment in Vocational Education and Training; Performativity and Visibility: Shapes, Paths and Meanings in the European Higher Education Systems; Section III: Transnational Education and Colonial Approach; Transnational Educational Spaces: Border-Transcending Dimensions in Education; The Interplay of "Posts" in Comparative Education: Post-Socialism and Post-Colonialism after the Cold War; Childhood and Power: Transnational and National Discourses on the Regulation of Policies for Early Childhood Education in Brazil; Translating Higher Education in the British Empire: The Question of Vernacular Degrees in Postwar Malaya; Section IV: Intercultural Education: Comparative Dimensions; Finnish, Japanese and Turkish Pre-Service Teachers' Intercultural Competence: The Impact of Pre-Service Teachers' Culture, Personal Experiences, and Education; Constructing the 'Other': Politics and Policies of Intercultural Education in Cyprus; About the Authors; Index.

Empires, Post-Coloniality and Interculturality: The New Challenges for Comparative Education, presents some outcomes of the 25th Conference of the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE), held in Salamanca, in June 2012. The central aim proposed for the debates of the Conference revolves around an intellectual effort to re-think and re-direct the scientific discipline of Comparative Education based on the broad cultural trends that influence the internationalization and/or globalization of education. Reconsidering and/or re-thinking our discipline involves studying the influence exerted on it by three major international forces. First, empires, not so much in terms of discipline or governance but more related to cultural, technological and knowledge perspectives. This area addresses both historical process and contemporary circumstances and is expressed through networks, research programs, academic reform in universities supported by criteria of governance and efficiency, transnational mobility, and linguistic monopolies. Second, it is necessary to re-think the influence of post-colonialism in educational models and models of citizens' education not only from the perspective of their impact on the curricular reorganization of education systems but also of their educational and sociocultural expression. Both forms were acclaimed both in the 19th century and the 20th century within different international geographic contexts. The third component of the discourse triangle is the reconsideration (not only historical) of the impact of migratory fluxes, or better said, of "cultural migrations", and their relationship with the reordering of curricular and educational processes in both education systems and in the social framework. Education is now in a transition from "monoculture" to multiple cultures in the classroom.
This publication is structured along four themes that illustrate the academic contributions to the Conference. The themes are as follows: I. From Empires, History and Memory: Comparative Studies of Education, II. Learning and Assessment Processes: an International Perspective, III. Transnational Education and Colonial Approach, IV. International Education: Comparative Dimensions.