Educational Dilemmas uses cultural psychology to explore the challenges, contradictions and tensions that occur during the process of education, with consideration of the effect these have at both the individual and the collective level.

Introduction - The inherent ambivalence of educational trajectories and the zone of proximal development with reduced potentialLuca TateoChapter 1 – Intrinsic education and its discontentsEugene Matusov and Ana Marjanovic-ShaneChapter 2 - Stress – between welfare and competitionThomas Szulevicz, Lærke Kromann Kure and Lillith Olsen LøkkenChapter 3 - Problems from discontinuity of children’s environment and development in JapanYoriko Okamoto OmiChapter 4 - Mental health 101: interpreting emotional distress for Canadian postsecondary students Karen H. RossChapter 5 - Counseling for university studentsGiulia Savarese, Oreste Fasano, Nadia Pecoraro, Monica Mollo, Luna Carpinelli and Pierpaolo CavalloChapter 6 - The discomfort of writing in academiaNoomi Matthiesen and Charlotte WegenerChapter 7 - In deep water: university students’ challenges in the processes of self-formation, survival or flightCasper FeilbergChapter 8 - Corporal punishment in extracurricular sports activities (bukatsu) represents an aspect of Japanese cultureYasuhiro OmiChapter 9 - "I see stress in many places around me, but as such, I'm over it": understanding psycho-cultural dimensions of university students’ experiencesPernille Hammer, Thomas Madsen and Luca TateoChapter 10 - Internship as liminal zone in educationEnrica Mele and Giuseppina MarsicoAfterword on educational dilemmas Luca Tateo