Chapter 1: Introduction: Teaching and learning time as axes of optimization (Ronni Laursen & Miriam Madsen).- Section 1: The organization of teaching and learning through scheduling.- Chapter 2: Temporal Discipline: The Role of Intensive Time Management in Preschools (Ronni Laursen).- Chapter 3: A vote on the temporal order of schools: The 1959 referendum among pupils on the five-day school week (Joakim Landahl).- Chapter 4: The politics of 'inclusion time' alongside 'normal time' in elementary schools: Exploring educational governance through multimodal time constructs (Bea Møller Schmidt and Mie Plotnikof).- Chapter 5: Time for Reconsideration: Shifting time allocation policy in Swedish compulsory schooling (Linda Rönnberg, Mikaela Nyroos and Lisbeth Lundahl).- Chapter 6: The quality economy of time in higher education (Miriam Madsen).- Section 2: Rhythms of life in educational institutions.
- Chapter 7: To watch or not to watch the clock: defining lecturer work temporally in UK higher education (Sara Black).- Chapter 8: Habit: A form of educational governance through time, through the body (Sarah Gerth v.d. Berg and Nancy Lesko).- Chapter 9: Haunted teaching time (Maddie Neufeld and Nancy Lesko).- Section 3: The role of timeliness in educational governance.- Chapter 10: Time as the Organizing Principle of Education Governance: A critical study of temporal dimensions in the OECD' Future of Education and Skills 2030 project (Christian Ydesen).- Chapter 11: Interplay between institutional governance and accreditation time frames: The case of a teaching programme at a Chilean university (Yenny Hinostroza-Paredes).
- Section 4: Pedagogical ideals.- Chapter 12: Enchanting Education Futures: Governing through Alluring Educational Materials and Toys (Jette Sandager and Mie Plotnikof).- Chapter 13: Temporal Governance in Early Childhood Education: Abjection and Developmentalism in Kenya's Reform (Meredith Whye and Thomas Popkewitz).- Section 5: Time scarcity and negotiations over time.- Chapter 14: Time poverty and teacher's work (Anna Hogan and Greg Thompson).- Chapter 15: Between Time and Money? Temporal Justice, Demographic Change and School Transport Policy in Finland (Saija Volmari and Tommi Wallenius).- Chapter 16: Temporal Tides: Navigating the Flux in Academic Identities and Roles (Daniel Sundberg).- Chapter 17: Critical storying: Returning time and agency to teachers in neoliberal workplaces (Bianca Licata and Nancy Lesko).