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Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Equity against the Odds: Three Stories of Island Prisons, Education and Hope 13 Elaine Unterhalter 2. Holocaust Education in Transition: A Transnational Perspective 29 Masako Shibata 3. Implementing Multicultural Curriculum for Equity: Islam in Hong Kong Education 43 Liz Jackson 4. Educational-Work Projects and Post-Graduate Pathways of Secondary Students in Chile: Individual Strategies in an Unequal Education System 59 Leandro Sepúlveda and María José Valdebenito 5. The European Qualifications Framework as an EU Policy Instrument for the Marketisation of Adult and Lifelong Education 79 Eleni Prokou 6. Necessity or Right? Europeanisation and Discourses on Permeability between Vocational Education and Training and Higher Education in Germany and France 95 Nadine Bernhard 7. Mentoring in Widening Access to Higher Education 117 Jan McGhie 8. Discourse and Desire: Wellbeing as Escape from Nepali Village Life 137 Joanna Nair 9. Doing Equality through Greater Transparency? Troubling Surveillance Expansion in the Russian School System 155 Nelli Piattoeva 10. Contesting the Cities: A Comparative Perspective on the Geographically Specific Tendencies in Urban Education Policies 173 Sezen Bayhan 11. Parental Involvement in Disadvantaged Districts of Santiago: Intergenerational Consequences for Equity of a Market-Driven Educational System 189 Marcela Ramos 12. Interrogating Equity Discourses: Conceptual Considerations and Overlooked Complexities 207 Marianna Papastephanou Index 221