Introduction ; Sites of the future : comparing and ordering new educational actualities / Martin Lawn -- Ethnohistory and materiality of education : in the setting of the universal exhibitions / Agustín Escolano Benito -- All the world into the school : world's fairs and the emergence of the school museum in the nineteenth century / Eckhardt Fuchs -- Formation and transformation of education in Japan through exhibitions : focused on the Educational Museum founded in 1877 / Kayoko Komatsu -- Fashioning writing machines : typewriting and handwriting exhibits at US world's fairs, 1893-1915 / Noah S. Sobe & Carrie B. Rackers -- Teaching the empire : the weekly Bulletin of empire study and the British Empire Exhibition, London, 1924 / Ian Grosvenor -- The spectacle of schooling and the construction of the nation in Argentina's participation in world exhibitions, 1867-1889 / Inés Dussel -- The bull and the book : images of Spain and Spanish education in the world fairs of the nineteenth century / María del Mar del Pozo Andrés -- More of a school than a show? : events in Glasgow, 1888-1988 / David Limond