This edited volume offers insights into Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB+) in intercultural education, presenting new studies, teaching practices, and theoretical perspectives. Through these critical examinations, the book challenges our understanding of intercultural education as it is experienced in schools, higher education, and informal educational contexts. Section one provides an introduction to the book, tracing the evolution of DEIB+ and application. Section two explores intersectional areas in intercultural and diversity-sensitive education. Section three examines emerging research orientations, methods, and methodologies from both the Global North and Global South. The final section showcases promising practices that reimagine critical cultural competence, pluralism, intercultural teaching, and transformative approaches.
This volume features selected papers presented at the International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE) Conference 2024, entitled Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in Education to Transform Society held at the Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, March 26-28, 2024.
Chapter "Reimagining Critical Intercultural Competence: Perspectives on Decolonial InterCulturality" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
1. Introduction.-
2. Moving beyond Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in
Education: Addressing Belonging in and for Diversity-Sensitive Intercultural
Education.-
3. When Will We ever Learn? Confronting the Deja Vus of the
Approaches in Multicultural and Intercultural Education.-
4. The Role of
Teachers in the Construction of Inequality in Multilingual Classrooms.- 5.
Mediatising Policy Debates about Migration and Education in England and
Germany.-
6. Milk and Cookies: Investigation of Children's Conceptions of
Skin Color.-
7. Doing Gender in the Music Classroom Interactional
(Re)production of Difference and Gender.-
8. Creating Social Networks in
Spaces of Belonging: An Exploratory Study among Unaccompanied Young Migrants
in the Basque Country (Spain).-
9. Using Collaborative Research to Promote
Inclusion and Equity within Education Systems.-
10. From Emergency to
Stability: Intercultural and Linguistic Responses in a Multicultural Italian
Primary School.-
11. Core Teaching Practices in Planning Intercultural
Dialogues between Knowledge Systems to Support Science Teachers in
non-Western Contexts.-
12. Participatory Theater as a Tool for Intercultural
Dialogue: an Ensemble Theater Performance with Future Educators and Young
Inmates in a Greek Prison.-
13. Towards an Intercultural Construction of
Science Teaching: Reflections on the Use of Communal Practices.-
14.
Reimagining Critical Intercultural Competence: Perspectives on Decolonial
Interculturality.-
15. Integrating Intercultural Didactics into Digital
Master Courses on Research Competence Development.-
16. I Tick all These
Boxes in Terms of Privilege: Post-Primary Teachers Ideas of Privilege and
Implications for Intercultural Education in Ireland.-
17. Thinking Culture
beyond Relativity and Dogma. Intercultural Pedagogy as Joint Expedition on
the Tension Fields of Plurality.
Barbara Gross is Associate Professor in Intercultural Education at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. She is Board Member of the IAIE and Managing Editor of the journal Intercultural Education. Her research interests include diversity-sensitive and critical intercultural education, (in)equity in education and society, intersectionality, and the internationalisation of education.
Martha Montero-Sieburth is Professor Emerita of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, USA. She co-leads informal care/social support in IMISCOEs Family, Welfare, Care and Life Course Standing Committee. Her research focuses on teacher education, school-community ethnography, bilingualism, participatory research, and reflexivity in migration undertaken in the U.S., Latin America, Spain, and the Netherlands.
