Book excerpt: Education writes back : on the future/present of cultural studies of education / Robert J. Helfenbein -- Discourses of opposition and resistance in education : alternative spaces for a militant pedagogy / Panayota Gounari -- Teaching and learning risk in the context of mathematics education : from the deficit theory to critical pedagogy of risk / Nenad Radakovic -- Fusion of the Ontario curriculum, the Tyler rationale, and EQAO standardized testing : a counter-productive approach to reducing the achievement gap / Ardavan Eiziderad -- Pièce de résistance : board games as a disruptive innovation in education / Jennifer Dickens, Eric Dickens, and Craig Vivian -- Captive songs of resistance : a posthumanist cartography of a deaf diaspora / Joanne Weber -- Theories of the intellectual : education and the cultural politics of free speech / Zeus Leonardo and Nicole Rangel -- Gifted programs : meeting the needs of exceptional students, or just good teaching practice? / Limin Jao -- Young people heating up in the London kettle : reading between the fault lines of race and class wars of the British urban riot scene (1958-2011) / Jo-Anne Dillabough, Charlotte Rochez ,and Beatrice Balfour -- The obstacle of difference and the solution of inclusive schooling / Terry Louisy -- "There's really a lot going on here" : toward a cosmopolitics of reader-response / Rob Simon, Phil Nichols, Will Edwards, and Gerald Campano -- Poststructuralism, linguistic imperialism, and the English-only question / Michael Koslowski -- Semiotics in education / Marcel Danesi -- Rewriting the educational legacy of imperialism / Peter Pericles Trifonas -- Re-mixing culture, language and the politics of boundaries in education : toward critical hip-hop ill-literacies / Awad Ibrahim -- The "digitalsSubjects" of 21st century education : on datafication, educational technology and subject formation / Felicitas Macgilchrist -- "You guys are killing me with this dreck" : contemporary attitudes toward the golden, atomic, silver, and bronze eras of comic book production / David Hayes -- Swamp king / Douglas Kellner -- Faith in fakes : the symbolic violence of wrestling / Peter Pericles Trifonas -- Heterotopias of the living and the dead / Michelle Dubek, Susan Jagger, and Erminia Pedretti -- Culturally responsive science education at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico : a retrospective, 1974-1989 / Gregory Cajete -- Considerations of spirituality in science education / Darren Hoeg -- Locks / Nicola Maquire -- Enclosing the commons : beyond a beautiful destruction / Rita Forte, Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, and Giuliano Reis -- Sketches along the road west : it's a beauty way to go / Susan Jagger -- Symbiotic relationship between academy music studies and indigenous knowledge in folk music: a case of Department of Music and Dance at Kenyatta University / Timothy K. Njoora -- Jean-Michel Basquiat, graffitiaArtist : teacher of resistance / Marla Morris -- Learning through resistance in an urban arts school transformation project / Bronwen Low, Michael Lipset and Melissa Proietti -- Learning stories and Reggio Emilia inspired pedagogical documentation : formative methods of assessment for the elementary school music classroom / Paula MacDowell, Michelle Didier, Kristy Dolha, Christine Stuart, Natalie Vermeer, and Peter Gouzouasis -- Still not at home : poetry in education / Carl Leggo