Introduction: 'Close up' and 'wide angle' lenses on primary education  Section 1 Pedagogy and provision  1. Primary education: why and how to compare?  2. Refugee children's experiences of education in countries of first asylum  3. Multigrade pedagogies: Africa's response to Education for All  4. Thinking about a community of provision  5. Shadow education and its implications for social justice  Section 2 Languages and learning  6. Primary school medium of instruction policies in Ghana and India  7. English language as an inclusion tool: the case of Syrian refugees in UK primary schools  8. Unpacking teachers' language ideologies in schools in Alsace, France  9. Negotiating worlds: a young Mayan child developing literacy at home and at school in Mexico  10. What languages do you speak? A reflexive account of research with multilingual pupils  Section 3 Inclusion and exclusion  11. Indigenous ways with literacies in an Australian primary school  12. Young British Muslims explore their experiences of primary school and 'othering'  13. Is this the right school for my gender nonconforming child  14. The challenges of realising inclusive education in South Africa  15. The contradictions within universal education: why 'education for all' is still exclusionary  Section 4 Teacher education and development  16. Defining 'teacher professionalism' from different perspectives  17. Developing inclusive learning environments in rural classrooms in India  18. Early childhood pre-service teachers engage in collegial dialogue  19. Teacher education in Sub-Saharan Africa and in one school in Kenya: macro challenges and micro changes  20. Learning Assistants in Sierra Leone: community support for future teachers  Section 5 Local, national and global intersections  21. Is the grass always greener? The effect of the PISA results on education debates in Sweden and Germany  22. Creativy and education in the European Union and the United Kingdom  23. New teachers and corporal punishment in Ghanaian primary schools  24. The Gambia: the intersection of the global and the local in a small developing country  25. Globalising education and the shaping of global childhoods