1. Editorial

   • Juan Carlos Tedesco

   EditorialNotes Pages: 227 - 229

2. Globalization and educational change: Modernism and citizenship

   • Ernesto Ottone

   Viewpoints/Controversies Pages: 231 - 240

3. Introduction to the open file

   • Toshio Ohsako

   Open File Violence in the School Pages: 241 - 248

4. Reflections on the causes and manifestations of violence in South African schools

   • W. J. Fraser
   • C. Meier
   • A. Poore

   Open File Violence in the School Pages: 249 - 278

5. The school under siege: The relationship between urban environment and the education system in Rio de Janeiro

   • Eloisa Guimarães

   Open File Violence in the School Pages: 279 - 292

6. The Intifada generation in the schoolroom

   • Sylvie Mansour

   Open File Violence in the School Pages: 293 - 310

7. Bullying as a contemporary behaviour problem in the context of increasing ‘societal privatization’ in Japan

   • Morita Yohji

   Open File Violence in the School Pages: 311 - 329

8. Bully/victim problems in school

   • Dan Olweus

   Open File Violence in the School Pages: 331 - 359

9. Violence in schools in the United States of America: trends, causes and responses

   • Nelly P. Stromquist
   • James Diego Vigil

   Open File Violence in the School Pages: 361 - 383

10. An agenda of problems, policies and debates on higher education in Latin America

    • Jorge Balán
    • Augusto M. Trombetta

    Trends/Cases Pages: 387 - 412

11. Victor Mercante (1870–1934)

    • Inés Dussel

    Profiles of Famous Educators Pages: 413 - 431