Tables of contents

Articles

Failing young people? Education and aspirations in a deprived community

S. Sinclair, J.H. McKendrick, & G. Scott

5–20

School democratization in prefigurative form: two Brazilian experiences

Tristan McCowan

21–41

Heterotopian cosmopolitan citizenship education?

Dean Garratt & Heather Piper

43–55

Ideologies of civic participation in Central Asia: liberal arts in the post-Soviet democratic ethos

Norma Jo Baker & Chad D. Thompson

57–71

Understandings of citizenship education in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: public discourses among stakeholders in the public and private sectors

Ulrike Niens & Lorraine McIlrath

73–87

Articles

Authenticity, past and present in Ghanaian children’s literature

Helen Yitah & Mabel Komasi

1–11

Mutinous fiction: narrative and illustrative metalepsis in three Postmodern picturebooks

Sylvia Pantaleo

12–27

Empire and children’s literature: changing patterns of cross-cultural perspective

Don Randall

28–39

Once upon today: teaching for social justice with Postmodern picturebooks

Kathleen O’Neil

40–51

'A constant transit of finding': fantasy as realisation in Pan’s Labyrinth

Roger Clark & Keith McDonald

52–63

Dual pathways to expression and understanding: Canadian coming-of-age graphic novels

Janette Hughes & Alyson E. King

64–84

Articles

Editorial

Jérôme Rossier

1–3

Individual predictors of adolescents’ vocational interest stabilities

Andreas Hirschi

5–19

The validity of a German version of the career exploration survey

Jens Rowold & Kathrin Staufenbiel

21–34

Career coping styles: differences in career attitudes among secondary school students

Isabel N. Janeiro & José Ferreira Marques

35–48

(Re)constructing career education as a socially just practice: an antipodean reflection

Barrie A. Irving

49–63

Editorial

A welcome cross-cultural initiative

Michael Grahame Moore

1–4

Articles

U.S. virtual school trial period and course completion policy study

Abigail Hawkins; Michael K. Barbour

5 – 20

Design dimensions and attributes for web-based distance learning modules

Cristina Pomales-Garcia; Angel D. Lopez ;Yili Liu

21 – 39

Study of teacher practices in health sciences in Brazil

Maykon A. P. Novais; Monica Parente Ramos; Solange A. Nappo; Daniel Sigulem

40 – 51

Interview

Book Review

A retrospective of recent books

Michael Beaudoin

57 – 61