A call to explore and map the educat?onal challenges under neol?beral?sm across the globe / Khalid Arar, Deniz Örücü and Jane Wilkinson -- Challenges of school principals and teachers in private schools : comparison of Turk?sh and Palestenian cases / Deniz Örücü and Khalid Arar -- Neol?beral challenges in public schools in Hong Kong : an East Asian model? / Paula Kwan, Benjamin Yuet Man Li and Trevor Tsz-lok Lee -- Principals' leadership tensioned by market pressures In Chile / Romina Madrid Miranda, Claudia Córdoba Calquín and Catherine Flores Gómez -- Pol?cy-pract?ce decoupl?ng : education inspection reform in China / Meng Tian and Xianjun Lan -- Issues in pre- and primary school education in rural Turkey : teachers' experiences and perspectives / Ecem Karl?da?-Dennis and Zeynep Temiz -- Stepping up or stepping aside? : the necessity of balancing promise with critique / Maysaa Barakat and Daniel Reyes-Guerraa -- Neoliberalism : the straw that broke the back of Lebanon's education system / Julia Mahfouz -- The neoliberal challenge to leading in disadvantaged public primary schools in Victoria, Australia / Katrina MacDonald, Jane Wilkinson and Corine Rivalland -- Educational administration challenges in the destabilised and disintegrating states of Syria and Yemen : the intersectionality of violence, culture, ideology, class/status group and postcoloniality / Eugenie A. Samier -- Commonalities in schools and education systems around the world shifting from welfarism to neo liberalism : are the kids are okay? / Alison Taysum and Carole Collins Ayanlaja -- Doing social justice leadership in challenging circumstances : principals' perspectives / Rinnelle Lee-Piggott, Dyanis Conrad-Popova and Dennis Conrad -- How leaders of outstand?ng Musl?m schools in England interpret Islamic educat?onal values in a neol?beral cl?mate : 'Br?t?sh values' and market compet?t?on / Fella Lahmar -- Concluding remarks : meeting at the global/local nexus of school challenges : what next / Khalid Arar, Deniz Örücü and Jane Wilkinson.