Mapping the Broad Field of Multicultural and Intercultural Education Worldwide: Towards the Development of a New Citizen
Editor: Nektaria Palaiologou and Gunther Dietz
Date Of Publication: Sep 2012
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-4031-6
Isbn: 1-4438-4031-9
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.

The Role of Participants in Education Research

Ethics, Epistemologies, and Methods

Edited by Warren Midgley, Patrick Alan Danaher, Margaret Baguley

To Be Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge – 272 pages

Series: Routledge Research in Education

This book explores different perspectives on the role, influence and importance of participants in education research. Drawing on a variety of philosophical, theoretical and methodological approaches, the book examines how researchers relate to and with their participants before, during, and after the collection and/or production of data; reimagining the rights of participants, the role/s of participants, the concept/s of “participant” itself.

Anthropology, Interculturality and Language Learning-Teaching

How compatible are they?

Fred Dervin / Béatrice Fracchiolla (eds.).

Series: Transversales – Volume 32, Peter Lang

Year of Publication: 2012

Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2012. VI, 207 p., 2 ill., 2 tabl.
ISBN 978-3-0343-1118-2 br.

The seemingly ‘natural’ link between anthropology and interculturality is not self-explanatory. For this reason, this book aims to review the use of various forms and understandings of anthropology in language and intercultural education. First of all, it is necessary on the one hand to clarify the notion of interculturality, and on the other hand, to position oneself in the complex and multifaceted field of anthropology. While some authors in the volume describe how they initiate anthropological practices in the language classroom, others explain how they apply theories, concepts and methods from anthropology to research learning and teaching. The volume will be of great value to (novice) researchers, teachers and anthropologists interested in the relationship between anthropology and language and intercultural education.