Intercultural Approaches to Education: From Theory to Practice

This book examines how cultural diversity, globalization, and migration shape contemporary societies and schools, and it promotes intercultural approaches to improve learning processes and education quality. It compares intercultural approaches in different countries and discusses issues such as language and religious diversity, global citizenship education, and the role of teachers in intercultural approaches.

Format: Hardback
Length: 213 pages
Publication date: 01 March 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

It 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 that can 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.

Weight: 524g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030708245
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022