This edited collection takes up the unfinished project of resisting the de-democratisation of education and growing levels of social and educational inequality. Contributions to this book provide a range of approaches to educational theory, policy and practice that offer critically democratic alternatives.

1. Education and Democracy in Dangerous Times (Stewart Riddle and Michael W. Apple); Part I: Contemporary Education Contexts and the Challenges for Democracy; 2. The Paradox of Democratisation: College Prep and The Production of Shadow Capital (Amy Stich and Kristin Cipollini); 3. Global Social Movements and Dialogical Pedagogy: Politics, Power and Process (Emma Rowe and Jessica Gerrard); 4. Resisting Governance by Numbers: Some Lessons from Schools (Nerida Spina, Jess Harris, Suzanne Carrington and Mel Ainscow); 5. Pursuing Pragmatic-Radical Curriculum Democracy: Students as Co-Researchers on Problems that Matter (Lew Zipin and Marie Brennan); Part II: Local–global Narratives of resisting and Reframing Education; 6. What Is Valued Knowledge and Where Does It Live? Educational Consciousness and the Democratisation of Education (Robin Bellingham, Matthew K. E. Thomas, Karen Charman, Mary Dixon and Jayson Cooper); 7. Critical Literacy as Legitimate Knowledge: The Importance of Teacher Agency (Jennifer Alford, Catarina Schmidt and Anna Lyngfelt); 8. Re-Imagining Young Children’s Literacy Education for their Democratic Participation Pauline Harris, Andrew Peterson and Cynthia Brock); 9. Teaching Democracy While Students Leave Their Shoes at the Door: Attending to Mundane Practices of Power Inequality in Thai Schools (Surawit Assapun, Thornchanok Uerpairojkit and James Burford); 10. Wither Democracy? The Rise of Epistocracy and Monopoly in School Governance (Andrew Wilkins); 11. Jacinta’s Story: Challenging Neoliberal Practices and Creating Democratic Spaces in Public High Schools (Janean Robinson, Barry Down and John Smyth); 12. Towards an Arts Education for Cultural Citizenship (Pat Thomson, Christine Hall, Lexi Earl and Corinna Geppert); 13. Democratic Management in Brazilian Schools: Practices of Resistance (Márcia Aparecida Jacomini, Lisete Regina Gomes Arelaro, Cileda Dos Santos Sant’Anna Perrella, Silvio Ricardo Gomes Carneiro and Marieta Gouvêa De Oliveira Penna); 14. Becoming Third World Women Educators (Bruna Lopes Duraes); 15. ‘Beating Their Unclad Chests’: Voluntourism, International Service and The Place of Critical Pedagogy Inside the Neoliberal University (Sam Schulz); 16. Grassroots Democracy In New York State: Opting-Out and Resisting the Corporate Reform Agenda in Schooling (Bob Lingard and David Hursh)