Maria Tamboukou is Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of East London, UK, and holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2022-2025).

Part I: Theoretical and epistemological diffractions 1. Doing Sociology of Education differently: An essay about a study on the educational trajectories of youths from the villas of Buenos Aires 2. Character as calculable: The performative and biopolitical management of the child's soul 3. Knowledge exchange in the social sciences: Knowledge ecosystems, networks, and the social enterprising of research Part II: Thinking and acting in the margins 4. Choice, Pathways and Transitions 20 years on 5. Trapped in educational marginalisation: 'I just drifted away' 6. Borderlands and radical hope: Beyond academic philanthropy Part III: Educational policies 7. Education policy; from social and consensual to self-interested and individual 8. Policy and the ethics of doing disability: Working within and beyond an inclusive norm in the English higher education 9. The Bologna Process: A policy discourse evolution Part IV: Reflections 10. Passion and education: A reflection on working with Stephen J. Ball 11. The exclusionary every day: A journey in London schools, struggling to include all children in their primary school education