Mitja Sardoč is researcher at the Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he is currently engaged in research projects on citizenship education, school autonomy, inclusion and equal educational opportunities. His research focuses on political theory and philosophy of education. He has edited a number of journal special issues on citizenship education and has interviewed some of the most renowned contemporary political philosophers on the topic of education and political theory, including Michael Walzer, Iris Marion Young, and Martha C. Nussbaum. He is Executive Editor of Theory and Research in Education and chief regional editor for Europe of the Journal of Citizenship & Teacher Education.

• Foreword viiMichael A. PetersIntroduction 1Mitja Sardoč1 Education and the Politics of Difference: Iris Young and the Politics of Education 5Avigail Eisenberg2 Multiculturalism and Citizenship: A critical response to Iris Marion Young 23Ronald Beiner3 Iris Marion Young and Political Education 37Elizabeth Frazer4 Democracy, Social Justice and Education: Feminist Strategies in a Globalising World 55Penny Enslin5 Towards a Contextualized Analysis of Social Justice in Education 67Sharon Gewirtz6 Iris Marion Young’s Imaginations of Gift Giving: Some Implications for the Teacher and the Student 81Simone Galea7 Education in the Context of Structural Injustice: A symposium Response 91Iris Marion YoungNotes on Contributors 103

Mitja Sardoč is researcher at the Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he is currently engaged in research projects on citizenship education, school autonomy, inclusion and equal educational opportunities. His research focuses on political theory and philosophy of education. He has edited a number of journal special issues on citizenship education and has interviewed some of the most renowned contemporary political philosophers on the topic of education and political theory, including Michael Walzer, Iris Marion Young, and Martha C. Nussbaum. He is Executive Editor of Theory and Research in Education and chief regional editor for Europe of the Journal of Citizenship & Teacher Education.

• Foreword viiMichael A. PetersIntroduction 1Mitja Sardoč1 Education and the Politics of Difference: Iris Young and the Politics of Education 5Avigail Eisenberg2 Multiculturalism and Citizenship: A critical response to Iris Marion Young 23Ronald Beiner3 Iris Marion Young and Political Education 37Elizabeth Frazer4 Democracy, Social Justice and Education: Feminist Strategies in a Globalising World 55Penny Enslin5 Towards a Contextualized Analysis of Social Justice in Education 67Sharon Gewirtz6 Iris Marion Young’s Imaginations of Gift Giving: Some Implications for the Teacher and the Student 81Simone Galea7 Education in the Context of Structural Injustice: A symposium Response 91Iris Marion YoungNotes on Contributors 103

Mitja Sardoč is researcher at the Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he is currently engaged in research projects on citizenship education, school autonomy, inclusion and equal educational opportunities. His research focuses on political theory and philosophy of education. He has edited a number of journal special issues on citizenship education and has interviewed some of the most renowned contemporary political philosophers on the topic of education and political theory, including Michael Walzer, Iris Marion Young, and Martha C. Nussbaum. He is Executive Editor of Theory and Research in Education and chief regional editor for Europe of the Journal of Citizenship & Teacher Education.

• Foreword viiMichael A. PetersIntroduction 1Mitja Sardoč1 Education and the Politics of Difference: Iris Young and the Politics of Education 5Avigail Eisenberg2 Multiculturalism and Citizenship: A critical response to Iris Marion Young 23Ronald Beiner3 Iris Marion Young and Political Education 37Elizabeth Frazer4 Democracy, Social Justice and Education: Feminist Strategies in a Globalising World 55Penny Enslin5 Towards a Contextualized Analysis of Social Justice in Education 67Sharon Gewirtz6 Iris Marion Young’s Imaginations of Gift Giving: Some Implications for the Teacher and the Student 81Simone Galea7 Education in the Context of Structural Injustice: A symposium Response 91Iris Marion YoungNotes on Contributors 103