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By traveling to different parts of the world, this book shows how educational institutions are an expression of and closely interwoven with cultural and relational practices. Adolescents may or may not be addressed by these institutions, they become or reject to become part of them, and ? no matter which trajectory is taken ? they shape and challenge the educational system they are confronted with. The examples given here provide the grounds for a future vision of how institutional structures and individual needs may be harmonized. This book shows vividly how the life phase “adolescence” itself is a cultural construct and that educational systems can only be understood in light of specific societal-historical developments and in terms of socio-cultural forms of life that these developments give rise to.