Table Of ContentINTERCULTURAL EDUCATION IN THE EUROPEAN
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Intercultural Education in the
European Context
Theories, Experiences, Challenges
Edited by
MARCO CATARCI
Roma Tre University, Italy
MASSIMILIANO FIORUCCI
Roma Tre University, Italy
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Intercultural education in the European context : theories, experiences, challenges / by
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xiii
1 Interculturalism in Education across Europe 1
Marco Catarci
2 Potential and Problems for Intercultural Education in the
British Isles 35
Jagdish S. Gundara
3 Interculturalism, Diversity Policy and Integration in France:
A Succession of Paradoxical Instructions 55
Martine A. Pretceille
4 Intercultural Education in the German Context 73
Otto Filtzinger and Giovanni Cicero Catanese
5 The Italian Way for Intercultural Education 105
Massimiliano Fiorucci
6 Intercultural Education in the Spanish Context 131
Teresa Pozo Llorente, Jordi Vallespir Soler and Lidia Cabrera Pérez
7 Intercultural Education in Europe: The Greek Experience 167
George P. Markou and Christos Parthenis
8 From Intercultural Education to Citizenship Education in
the Netherlands: Enhancement of Cultural Values or
Development of Critical Democratic Citizenship? 203
Martha Montero-Sieburth and Hana Alhadi
9 An Equitable Education System’s Achilles Heel?
Intercultural Education in the Swedish Context 229
Guadalupe Francia
vi Intercultural Education in the European Context
Concluding Remarks 249
Marco Catarci
Index 255
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
4.1 Elements of opening up to other cultures 89
8.1 The Dutch education system 214
Tables
5.1 Percentage of students with and without Italian citizenship
lagging behind, by school level 110
6.1 Top migrant destinations 131
6.2 Principal nationalities of immigrants in Spain 133
6.3 Percentage of immigrants in Spain with regard to native
population, immigrant population and native population 133
6.4 Percentage of immigrant students in Spanish Autonomous
Regions and cities 140
7.1 Immigrants with legal status in 2012 and distribution of
immigrants according to the 2001 Census 171
7.2 Naturalisation data of Ethnic Greeks and foreign immigrants
for the period 2000–12 181
7.3 Distribution of foreign immigrant students in Greek state schools
across regions for the academic year 2012/13 185
7.4 Distribution of returning Ethnic Greek students in Greek state
schools across regions for the academic year 2012/13 186
7.5 Distribution of immigrant students and country of origin in
Greek Schools of Intercultural Education (SIE) for the academic
year 2012/13 190–92
9.1 Eligibility for the national programme at upper secondary school
level according to ethnic background and gender. 236
9.2 Eligibility for the national programme at upper secondary
school level according to ethnic background, time of residence
and gender. 236
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Notes on Contributors
Hana Alhadi is a Master’s graduate on the Migration and Ethnic Studies
Programme at the University of Amsterdam. Her personal background as a
European Slovenian and Middle Eastern Yemeni gives her a particular perspective
on intercultural education. Her research interests lie in addressing intercultural
experiences, intercultural dialogue and policy implementation of intercultural
education at the European to the Dutch district level.
Lidia Cabrera Pérez holds a PhD in Educational Science. She is a tenured
lecturer in research methods and diagnostic studies in education at the University
of La Laguna, Spain, where she teaches the Master of Psychopedagogy course on
assessment and evaluation in education. She is also on the staff of the doctoral
programme in education as research at the university. Her focus is on dropouts
and failure in higher education, and intercultural education, and she has published
extensively on these topics. Dr Cabrera Pérez has also participated in different
projects at the Universities of Lisbon, Amsterdam, Massachusetts-Boston and at
the Instituto Politécnico (Costa Rica).
Marco Catarci is Associate Professor of Social and Intercultural Education in
the Department of Education, Roma Tre University. He holds a PhD in Education
and collaborates with the Research Centre on Intercultural and Development
Education at Roma Tre. He is a member of the PhD School in Educational
Research and Theory, and has been a member of the Board of the Italian Society
for Pedagogy and of the Italian National University Council. He has taken part in
many national and European research projects in the field of education, and has
presented several papers at international conferences. His major research interests
include intercultural education, cultural mediation and inclusion of refugees, and
he is the author of books, articles and research reports on these topics.
Giovanni Cicero Catanese holds a PhD in Intercultural Education (University
of Messina). His research focuses on the bilingual education of deaf children
through sign language, and he has completed an analysis of educational initiatives
in linguistic contexts with a high concentration of immigrants. He is the author of
several publications on these issues and since 2004 has cooperated with the Institut
für Interkulturelle Pädagogik im Elementarbereich (IPE) of Mainz (Germany),
where he has developed a European Language Portfolio for young children. Since
2009, he has been a lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter) in several German universities
