Helen Proctor is Professor of Education at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research examines the historical formation and reformation of the relationships between schools, families and ‘communities’ from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries.Anna Roch is Research Associate at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Her research interests include schooling, school choice, parenthood and the methodological potential of discourse analysis and ethnography.Georg Breidenstein is Professor of Education at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. His main interests and areas of research are ethnography of schooling and education, childhood research and school choice and parenthood.Martin Forsey is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Edith Cowan University, Australia. His research focuses on educational systems, their impacts on individuals within society, and their role in social change.

• 1. Parents, schools and the twenty-first century state: comparative perspectives 2. Normative development in rural India: ‘school readiness’ and early childhood care and education 3. Great Expectations: migrant parents and parent-school cooperation in Norway 4. What parents know: risk and responsibility in United States education policy and parents’ responses 5. Parents as a problem: on the marginalisation of democratic parental involvement in Swedish school policy 6. Building trust: how low-income parents navigate neoliberalism in Singapore’s education system 7. Parents as ‘customers’? The perspective of the ‘providers’ of school education. A case study from Germany 8. Practising autonomy in a local eduscape: schools, families and educational choice

Helen Proctor is Professor of Education at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research examines the historical formation and reformation of the relationships between schools, families and ‘communities’ from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries.Anna Roch is Research Associate at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Her research interests include schooling, school choice, parenthood and the methodological potential of discourse analysis and ethnography.Georg Breidenstein is Professor of Education at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. His main interests and areas of research are ethnography of schooling and education, childhood research and school choice and parenthood.Martin Forsey is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Edith Cowan University, Australia. His research focuses on educational systems, their impacts on individuals within society, and their role in social change.

• 1. Parents, schools and the twenty-first century state: comparative perspectives 2. Normative development in rural India: ‘school readiness’ and early childhood care and education 3. Great Expectations: migrant parents and parent-school cooperation in Norway 4. What parents know: risk and responsibility in United States education policy and parents’ responses 5. Parents as a problem: on the marginalisation of democratic parental involvement in Swedish school policy 6. Building trust: how low-income parents navigate neoliberalism in Singapore’s education system 7. Parents as ‘customers’? The perspective of the ‘providers’ of school education. A case study from Germany 8. Practising autonomy in a local eduscape: schools, families and educational choice

Helen Proctor is Professor of Education at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research examines the historical formation and reformation of the relationships between schools, families and ‘communities’ from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries.Anna Roch is Research Associate at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Her research interests include schooling, school choice, parenthood and the methodological potential of discourse analysis and ethnography.Georg Breidenstein is Professor of Education at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. His main interests and areas of research are ethnography of schooling and education, childhood research and school choice and parenthood.Martin Forsey is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Edith Cowan University, Australia. His research focuses on educational systems, their impacts on individuals within society, and their role in social change.

• 1. Parents, schools and the twenty-first century state: comparative perspectives 2. Normative development in rural India: ‘school readiness’ and early childhood care and education 3. Great Expectations: migrant parents and parent-school cooperation in Norway 4. What parents know: risk and responsibility in United States education policy and parents’ responses 5. Parents as a problem: on the marginalisation of democratic parental involvement in Swedish school policy 6. Building trust: how low-income parents navigate neoliberalism in Singapore’s education system 7. Parents as ‘customers’? The perspective of the ‘providers’ of school education. A case study from Germany 8. Practising autonomy in a local eduscape: schools, families and educational choice