Gunther Dietz

Thorsten Knauth

Dan-Paul Jozsa

Aurora Alvarez Veinguer

Relations between Muslims and the public education systems of Europe are often characterised by tensions. There is often still a perceived incompatibility between the claims of individual Muslims or Muslim communities on the one hand and the aims of public education in Europe on the other. The relatively recent presence of Islam in much of Europe, the internal diversity of Muslim communities, the lack of a centralized, hierarchical church-like structure – different arguments are used to justify such a discriminatory treatment of one of the largest faith communities in Europe. Nevertheless, as this book aims to illustrate, there are already rich and diverse experiences throughout Europe of how to integrate Islam into the national and regional school systems, particularly in primary, but also in secondary education. Accordingly, this book provides some analyses of the ways in which Islam is integrated in education in certain regions of Spain, the Netherlands, France and England. These analyses are paralleled by empirical findings concerning the role of religion in the life of young Muslims, their views concerning religion in school, and the impact of religion in education and society in Spain, the Netherlands, Norway, Germany, France and England.

Islam in Education in European Countries. Pedagogical Concepts and Empirical Findings

Multiculturalism, Interculturality and Diversity in Education

Nektaria Palaiologou

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.

Towards the Development of a New Citizen

Mapping the Broad Field of Multicultural and Intercultural Education Worldwide

A lo largo de cuatro capítulos el autor revisa críticamente algunos planteamientos sobre el multiculturalismo desde el posmodernismo, su tránsito a la interculturalidad, y propone una aproximación antropológica a su estudio y tratamiento, así como una metodología etnográfica para estudiar la educación intercultural. Sin limitarse a presentar la teoría y la práctica de la interculturalidad en los diferentes sistemas educativos, el autor aborda un importante tema de actualidad y analiza la "interculturalización" de forma tanto diacrónica como sincrónica.

Gunther Dietz

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