1st Edition
Intercultural Education Conceptual and Empirical Challenges
This edited collection highlights the diversity of perspectives within the broad field of intercultural education, focusing on education in modern multicultural societies, as well as exploring the role of migrant populations as modern citizens. The chapters examine these themes both through historical analysis, tracing the pathway of intercultural education back to ancient Greece, before focussing on modern multicultural societies. It also discusses intercultural learning issues in multicultural contexts, dynamic approaches and practical applications in modern classrooms and the main issues in teacher training in relation to immigrant students.
The volume highlights the need to design more effective social and educational policies for immigrant populations, on the basis of respecting, protecting and supporting all social groups, irrelevant of their country of origin, racial or ethnic background, sexual orientation, socio-economic class or religious beliefs. It brings together conceptual and empirical contributions from well-known authors in the field as well as from younger scholars and researchers. The result is a mixture of ideas that will provide food for thought and discussion to an international readership.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Intercultural Education.
1. Intercultural education: conceptual and empirical challenges in a new age Nektaria Palaiologou
Part 1: Conceptual contributions
2. Ancient Athenian democratic knowledge and citizenship: connectivity and intercultural implications Jagdish S. Gundara
3. Educating citizens in diverse societies James A. Banks
4. Intercultural education and the crisis of globalisation: some reflections David Coulby
5. The modern intercultural persona and civitas: tracing the path back to the ancient Greek Demoi Nektaria Palaiologou
6. Partitions, identities and intercultural education: an exploration of some key issues Leslie Bash
Part 2: Empirical Studies
7. School leadership and ethnic diversity: approaching the challenge Fred Carl Andersen and Eli Ottesen
8. Students’ reactions to a group project in a university English-as-a-foreign-language class for cultural understanding Kumiko Fushino
9. Music and intercultural dialogue rehearsing life performance at school Maria de São José Côrte-Real
10. The relevance of multilingualism for teachers and immigrant parents in early childhood education and care in Germany and in France Nathalie Thomauske
11. School, cultural diversity, multiculturalism, and contact Camilla Pagani, Francesco Robustelli and Cristina Martinelli
Examples of best practice
12. The educational program Zajedno Jači (Stronger Together) in Croatia Sanja Španja
Biography
Nektaria Palaiologou is Assistant Professor in Intercultural Education in the Department of Early Childhood Education, School of Education, at the University of Western Macedonia (UoWM), Greece. Currently, she is an elected board member of the International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE) and serves as Associate Editor of the journal, Intercultural Education. She also directs the Hellenic Association for Intercultural Education (HAIE), an official chapter of IAIE in Greece, focusing on research in the direction of Intercultural and Human Rights Education for the following teams: migrants, Roma, minorities, refugees.
