Intercultural and Multicultural Education

Intercultural and Multicultural Education
Author: Carl A. Grant
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2010-09-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136949380

This volume brings together the dynamic discussions and lively debate of intercultural and multicultural education taking place across the world. 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.

Intercultural Approaches to Education

Intercultural Approaches to Education
Author: Abdeljalil Akkari
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2022-02-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 303070825X

This open access book provides an analysis of contemporary societies and schools shaped by cultural diversity, globalization and migration. This diversity is necessarily reflected in education systems and requires the promotion of intercultural approaches able to improve learning processes and the quality of education. From an international and comparative perspective, this book first presents theoretical and conceptual foundations for seriously considering cultural diversity. The book also compares intercultural approaches and debates generated in countries as diverse as the United States, Canada, Brazil, Switzerland and France. For each national context, the book addresses both the historical roots of intercultural approaches and the concrete initiatives driven by educational policies for their implementation in schools and classrooms. Finally, the book presents discussions surrounding the treatment of linguistic or religious diversity in schools, the emergence of global citizenship education and the key role of teachers in intercultural approaches. This is an open access book.

Intercultural and Inclusive Education in Latin America

Intercultural and Inclusive Education in Latin America
Author: Silvia Romero-Contreras
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2024-10-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1837531420

This volume explores the ways in which intercultural and inclusive education have been addressed in Latin America through small, local, or nation-wide programs to improve peoples’ experiences regarding diversity, such as racism, classism, meritocracy, and redefines the priorities to advance on the quality of education for all.

Transformative Intercultural Global Education

Transformative Intercultural Global Education
Author: Barreto, Isabel María Gómez
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2024-05-13
Genre: Education
ISBN:

In this tumultuous world, characterized by unprecedented migratory movements, societal evolution intersects with an increasing diversity that presents profound challenges. The global landscape is marked by 33 armed conflicts in 2022 alone, resulting in forced displacement and an exceeding count of 100 million displaced individuals worldwide. The traditional understanding of migration as a response to individualized prosecution has expanded to encompass "survival migration," incorporating environmental change and livelihood collapse. This paradigm shift necessitates a reevaluation of human rights and a compelling call for transformative global and intercultural education to address the vulnerabilities, inequities, and discrimination faced by displaced and native youth. Transformative Intercultural Global Education is a project aimed at shedding light on educational inequalities stemming from race, migration, forced displacement, and cultural factors. Through innovative empirical results, theoretical frameworks, and educational practices, this book seeks to contribute to quality education and, subsequently, a more sustainable society. The objective is to provide educators with proposals that strengthen educational policies and programs aligned with global citizenship, fostering sensitivity, critical thinking, and commitment towards respectful and tolerant coexistence. The research outcomes are designed to encourage actions that promote equity, social justice, and the sustainable development of a global society.

Establishing a Culture of Intercultural Education

Establishing a Culture of Intercultural Education
Author: Leslie Bash
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2016-03-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1443890022

Given the current era of global turmoil and strained relations between peoples of diverse national and cultural origins, there has never been a greater need for intercultural education than there is today. This edited volume is in honour of Jagdish Gundara, a renowned pioneer in the field, and brings together contributions from experienced educators and researchers who focus on problematic aspects of intercultural education, as well as on crucial issues related to different regional contexts. Contributors draw upon national, comparative and international perspectives, in addition to theoretical and empirical studies, to inform thinking and discussion in relation to innovative policies and pedagogies. The content of the book will be found to be both challenging and stimulating. Accordingly, it will be welcomed by graduate students and researchers, as well as educators and policy-makers both nationally and across the globe. As such, the volume reflects an endeavour to establish intercultural education as a fundamental aspect of educational discourse in general.

Early Childhood Education From an Intercultural and Bilingual Perspective

Early Childhood Education From an Intercultural and Bilingual Perspective
Author: Huertas-Abril, Cristina A.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2018-05-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1522551689

Around the world, school districts and institutions are exploring ways to provide quality education to their students. With this, there is a deeper need for multiculturalism in classrooms, as many students are from varying cultures and speak different languages. Early Childhood Education From an Intercultural and Bilingual Perspective provides emerging research on the use of play, toys, and games as tools for meaningful multicultural and bilingual education. By highlighting topics such as cross-cultural psychology, classroom management, and second language acquisition, this publication explores the importance of culture in games and play. This book is an important resource for educators, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on the role of intercultural education in society and modern approaches to early education.

Decolonising Intercultural Education

Decolonising Intercultural Education
Author: Robert Aman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2017-07-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317205685

At the centre of Decolonising Intercultural Education is a simple yet fundamental question: is it possible to learn from the Other? This book argues that many recent efforts to theorise interculturality restrict themselves to a variety of interpretations within a Western framework of knowledge, which does not necessarily account for the epistemological diversity of the world. The book suggests an alternative definition of interculturality, framed not in terms of cultural differences, but in terms of colonial difference. It brings analysis of the Latin American concept of interculturalidad into the picture and explores the possibility of decentring the discourse of interculturality and its Eurocentric outlook, seeing interculturality as inter-epistemic rather than simply inter-cultural. Decolonising Intercultural Education will be of interest to educational practitioners, researchers and postgraduate students in in the areas of education, postcolonial studies, Latin American studies and social sciences.

Indigenous Education Policy, Equity, and Intercultural Understanding in Latin America

Indigenous Education Policy, Equity, and Intercultural Understanding in Latin America
Author: Regina Cortina
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2016-12-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137595329

This book is a comparative study of educational policies over the past two decades in Latin America. These policies, enacted through constitutional reforms, sought to protect the right of Indigenous peoples to a culturally inclusive education. The book assesses the impact of these policies on educational practice and the on-going challenges that countries still face in delivering an equitable and culturally responsive education to Indigenous children and youth. The chapters, each written by an expert in the field, demonstrate how policy changes are transforming education systems in Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. Going beyond the classroom, they highlight the significance of these reforms in promoting intercultural dialogue in Latin American societies.

Intercultural Education

Intercultural Education
Author: David Coulby
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1997
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0749421142

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Mapping the Broad Field of Multicultural and Intercultural Education Worldwide

Mapping the Broad Field of Multicultural and Intercultural Education Worldwide
Author: Gunther Dietz
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2012-12-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 144384408X

The issues which are discussed in the 29 chapters of this volume address core matters with respect to modern diverse societies. The most important relate to the following: the societal needs of migrant populations and the educational needs of their children; the exclusivist policies which usually impact upon migrant groups; the need to enrich school texts and curricula with new intercultural and citizenship dimensions; the importance of integrating the notion of Paideia within the school ethos and educational programmes. This volume has a dual aim. The first aim is to envisage the field of Multicultural and Intercultural Education from different disciplines at the international level, describing the new educational and social conditions that have been created by recent migration and identifying new trends in the field. The second aim is to highlight the importance of Multicultural and Intercultural Education in the development of a new citizen, who moves around the world, interacting with different people, and has a dynamic and flexible identity with polymorphic personal, social and cultural characteristics – a new intercultural persona. To sum up, this volume highlights that authors coming from different continents share some common ideas and tend to believe in the notion of Intercultural/Multicultural Education as a useful new dimension within the dynamics of many disciplines, as a new inter-disciplinary approach that is embedded within them and which characterizes modern societies.