Marsico, G. (2019). Education in Between the Established and the Possible. In P. Hviid & M. Märtsin, (Eds). Culture in Education and Education in Culture. Tensioned Dialogues and Creative Constructions, Cultural Psychology of Education, 10, (pp.v-vii), Cham, CH: Springer

Reading the book Culture in Education and Education in Culture. Tensioned Dialogues and Creative Constructions, edited by Pernille Hviid and Mariann Märtsin, I had the feeling of being before one of the crucial, and still unsolved, critical issues in Education: that is the universalities and particularities of the educational enterprise worldwide. I myself have tried to address the point in the Manifesto for the Future of Education (Marsico, 2017), where I discussed the need, for the contemporary Cultural Psychology of Education, to be increasingly international and global, while promoting the cultural sensitiveness of the educational intervention. I claimed that, in any society, the application of the know-how in the area of education is local. This may appear quite controversial in the current panorama of rampant neoliberalism, with an increasing standardization and outcome-based focus.