Foreword, Frank Pajares and Tim Urdan. The Education of Persons in Multicultural Canada, Jack Martin, Jeff Sugarman, and Sarah Hickinbottom. Educating Adolescents in Australia: Motivation and the Middle School Years, Dennis M. McInerney, Katrina Simpson, and Martin Dowson. Cognitive Style and School Performance in Adolescents: A UK Perspective, Richard J. Riding. The Long Transition to Adulthood: An Italian View, Gian Vittorio Caprara, Eugenia Scabini, and Giovanni B. Sgritta. Adolescence in Dutch Culture: A Self-Regulation Perspective, Monique Boekaerts. Tools for Life-Long Learning: The Growing Emphasis on Learning-to-Learn Competencies and ICT in Adolescent Education in Finland, Markku Niemivirta and Sanna Järvelä. Dialectic Contradictions in the Experiences of Israeli Jewish Adolescents: Efficacy and Stress, Closeness and Friction, and Conformity and Noncompliance, Ofra Mayseless and Gavriel Salomon. Adolescents' Self-Image in Lebanon: Implications for Education, Huda...