Giuseppina Marsico, University of Salerno, ItalyKoji Komatsu, Osaka Kyoiku University, JapanAntonio Iannaccone, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

• Series Editor's Preface: Liminality of Education: The Importance of Border Zones, Jaan Valsiner.Editorial Introduction: Crossing Boundaries: Towards a New View on Cultural Psychology of Education, Antonio Iannaccone.Section I. Explorations of Regulatory Dynamics Taking Place During the Encounters of the Two Microsystems.Chapter 1. How School Enters Family's Everyday Life, Clotilde Pontecorvo, Vivian Liberati and Camilla Monaco.Chapter 2. Cultural Diversity and Regulatory Dynamics of Participation Between Schools and Families, Margarida César.Chapter 3. Conversation in Educational Contexts: School at Home and Home at School, Francesco Arcidiacono.Chapter 4. Why and How Young Children's Presentational Self Emerges in Day-to-Day Conversation About the Past? Koji Komatsu.Chapter 5. The Family Goes to School: Talks and Rituals of an Intercontextual Meeting, Antonio Iannaccone and Giuseppina Marsico.Commentary, Felice Carugati.Section II. Analyses of the Representations' System Produced by the Actors in One Context (Family) Towards the Other Microsystem (School).Chapter 6. Teacher to Parents: Education as Compassion and Power, Robert Di Giulio and Regina Ritscher.Chapter 7. Exploring Parents' Cultural Models of Mathematical Knowledge in Multiethnic Primary Schools, Sarah Crafter and Guida de Abreu.Chapter 8. Taking Care of Children and Pupils: Agreements and Disagreements in Parents' and Teachers' Social Representations, Patrizia Selleri and Felice Carugati.Chapter 9. Parents' Images of Their Children's School System, Marco Guidi and Sergio Salvatore.Chapter 10. Bridging Cultures Parent Workshops: Developing Cross-Cultural Harmony in Schools Serving Latino Immigrant Families, Pearl Chang Esau, Catherine D. Daley, Patricia M. Greenfield and Francisco J. Robles-Bodan.Chapter 11. Crossing the Boundaries, Entering the Territory of Science: Women and Physics, Anna Maria Ajello, Cristina Belardi, Giulia Calafiore and Cristina Cimmino.Commentary, Clotilde Pontecorvo.General Conclusion: Moving Between the Social Spaces: Conditions for Boundaries Crossing, Giuseppina Marsico.About the Contributors.