Dr. S. Karin Amos, since October 2006 Professor of Education at the University of Tuebingen and since October 2013 Vice Rector for Academic Affairs. As professor of education, my focus is on international and intercultural education, my research focus is on education governance, processes of inclusion and exclusion in education. I look at how education is embedded in different societal contexts both synchronically, but also diachronically, and also at how these contexts themselves are changing. By way of example: Since the nineteenth century, from a European perspective, the main reference for education systems had been the nation-state; today this perspective no longer suffices to do justice to the complexities of the institutional and symbolic levels of education and the significant „rescoping“ and „rescaling“ of education.