Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Reason of Schooling and Educational Research: Culture and Political Sociology -- PART I Schooling as Fabricating Human Kinds -- 2 The Making of the Argentinean Citizen in the Birth of the Republic -- 3 Puériculture Education and the Contours of the Republican Child Question and the Politics of Sexuality -- 4 The Traveling of PISA: Fabricating the Korean Global Citizen and the Reason of Reforms -- 5 Feeling Progressive: Historicizing Affect in Education -- PART II The Alchemy: Making the Subject -- 6 Scientific Americans: Historicizing the Making of Difference in Early 20th-Century U.S. Science Education -- 7 From Scribbles to Details: The Invention of Stages of Development in Drawing and the Government of the Child -- 8 Mathematics for All, Economic Growth, and the Making of the Citizen-Worker -- 9 The Alchemy of Brazilian Physical Education, the Regulating of the Body, and the Making of Kinds of People -- PART III The Double Gestures of Educational Reform: Inclusion as Exclusion -- 10 New Mathematics: A Tool for Living the Modern Life, Making the Mathematical Citizen, and the Problem of Disadvantage -- 11 The End of the World and a Promise of Happiness: Environmental Education within the Cultural Politics of Emotions -- 12 The Double Gestures of Schooling: The Historical Permutations of the "Problem" Student -- 13 Untangling the Reasoning of China's National Teacher Training Curriculum: Confucian Thesis, Modern Epistemology, and Difference -- PART IV Research as an "Actor" and the Political -- 14 Technique of Freedom: Representing the School Class as a Social Order -- 15 The Perils of "Actionable Insights": Educational Research and the Making of Difference