Intercultural and Multicultural Education Enhancing Global Interconnectedness [Hardcover]

By addressing intercultural and multicultural education in a global context, this volume brings together the dynamic discussions and lively debate of intercultural and multicultural education taking place across the world. Not content with discussion of theory or practice at the expense of the other, this collection of essays embodies dialogical praxis by weaving together a variety of epistemologies, ideologies, historical circumstances, pedagogies, policy approaches, curricula, and personal narratives. Contributors take readers to the countries, schools, and nongovernmental agencies where intercultural education and multicultural education, either collectively or singularly, are active (often central) concepts or practices in the daily educational undertaking and discourse of society. Readers are also informed about how intercultural education and/or multicultural education within a country came to be and will learn about the debates over intercultural education and/or multicultural education at both the government and local level.

Preface  Carl A. Grant and Agostino Portera  Acknowledgments  Introduction  1. A Global Invitation: Toward the Expansion of Dialogue, Reflection, and Creative Engagement on Intercultural and Multicultural Education  Carl A. Grant and Stefan Brueck  2. Intercultural and Multicultural Education: Epistemological and Semantic Aspects  Agostino Portera  Intercultural Education  3. The Intercultural Perspective and its Development through Cooperation with the Council of Europe  Micheline Rey-von Allmen  4. Comments on Intercultural Education in German Guidelines and Curricula  Cristina Allemann-Ghionda  5. Intercultural Education in Post-ComlÓ3