This regular issue of Prospects focuses on the need to be sensitive to the context in education, whether in research, policy-making, or pedagogical practice. The articles deal with issues that are relevant to education today such as academic freedom, policy borrowing, and globalization. This volume of Prospects also include an annotated bibliography on psychosocial aspects of education in humanitarian settings as well as a proposal concerning an international project that would gather and analyze existing knowledge about teaching practices and teacher training in developing countries. PROSPECTS is UNESCO-IBE's Quarterly Review of Comparative Education.