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Introduction: urgent departures: emergent trends in comparative education / Lauren Ila Misiaszek -- Comparative education as an act of uBuntu: human encounters reconsidered / N'Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba and Yusef Waghid -- Contested terrains of environmental pedagogies: comparing ecopedagogy, education for sustainable development (ESD) and environmental education / Greg William Misiaszek -- Alternative approaches to the political economy of education and some of their implications / Richard Desjardins -- Philosophy of education: contributions to comparative education / Liz Jackson -- Taking global citizenship education local: a response to the crisis of multiculturalism, democracy and citizenship / Massimiliano Tarozzi and Carlos Alberto Torres -- Social media, technology, and protest movements / Irving Epstein -- Social movements, popular education, and counterhegemonic schooling in Latin America / Rebecca Tarlau -- The contours of Indian education: continuity, change and contradictions / Yoko Mochizuki and Anantha Duraiappah -- Comparative education in China: the dynamics of globalization and localization / Gang Zhu and Zhengmei Peng -- Synchrony and diachrony of multiple comparative educations: Japanese language publications in a global academic field / Shoko Yamada -- Institutional and pedagogical consequences of neoliberal globalization in teacher education / Maria Teresa Tatto and Ian Menter -- Improving critical thinking in STEM for girls: a contextualised education integrating the arts and human rights / Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite -- A dialectical analysis of low fee private schools: the case of Hyderabad, India / Sangeeta Kamat and Carol Anne Spreen -- The promise and methodological limits of international large-scale assessments / David Rutkowski and Leslie Rutkowski -- Revitalizing democracy: comparative educators as public intellectuals for the 21st century / Carlos Alberto Torres and Richard Van Heertum.