The current influx of new immigrant groups, some of whom also have relatively high rates of birth, will fuel continued growth in the number of students who enter school with little or no English proficiency and whose cultural and educational backgrounds may not correspond to the norms and expectations they encounter when they start formal schooling.

The Cultural Heritage Activities and Institutes Network combines initiatives in the field of European heritage education. The network forwards and exchanges information and promotes new projects.

Stability and success in our electronic global village increasingly depends on the complex interactions of culture, communication, and technology. This book offers both theoretical approaches and case studies of these interactions from diverse cultural domains, including Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the United States.

The Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005-2015 is an unprecedented political commitment by European governments to improve the socio-economic status and social inclusion of Roma. The Decade is an international initiative that brings together governments, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, as well as Romani civil society, to accelerate progress toward improving the welfare of Roma and to review such progress in a transparent and quantifiable way.

The Policy Research Center on Equal Opportunities (PRCEO), a partnership between the University of Antwerp (UA) and Hasselt University (UHasselt), cordially invites scholars from various disciplines and approaches to participate in this conference.

Issues of race and ethnicity have come to the fore in British public life, and partly as a result of the public commitment that the Government has made since 1997 to the desirability of a non-racist and multicultural Britain.

This collection of case studies is a testament to the women and men around the world who have stood up to reject the imposition of norms and values in the name of religion as well as to expose and challenge the privileged position given to religion in public policies. In 2008 AWID launched a call for proposals to document the strategies of women’s rights activists confronting religious fundamentalisms. The final 18 case studies presented here are drawn from a wide range of religious and geographical contexts, and cover various fields of activism.

H.E.L.P., or Hip Hop Educational Literacy Program, is a series of supplemental reading workbooks designed to HELP students of all reading levels through the innovative usage of Hip Hop lyrics for critical analysis, multicultural relevance, and effective literacy instruction.

This book on the responsibility of higher education for a democratic culture is the 8th volume in the Council of Europe’s Higher Education series. It is the direct result of a Higher Education Forum held in June 2006 on the responsibility of higher education for citizenship, human rights and sustainability.

Home not Home is a unique artistic co-operation between big and small players. Intercult, Riksteatern, Riksutställningar, Re:Orient and Sprong have joined together to create new frames of references on the art scene through intense women’s stories and focus on identity.

The conception of intercultural dialogue is in a certain sense a contribution to conflict transformation, as many conflicts have a cultural dimension or are touching cultural problems. Therefore I will first outline in this paper what I understand by intercultural dialogue and present my idea of it. Secondly I will show in which way intercultural dialogue can contribute to conflict transformation and thirdly 1 will say what could be a feminist perspective in approaching this question.

ID is a non-profit educational organization that provides programs of cross-cultural awareness through travel, community service, workshops, and seminars. Its programs are designed to stimulate interest and participation in different cultures.

Just dip into the booklet, try the activities and highlight those you like. Most of the activities are games which are best played for about 10 minutes so that the children will want to play them again when learning other languages. Spread the activities over the month and adapt them to suit your class. For example, play two 10minute games per week and use stickers to reward the children for playing the games well.

The first event of the European Year 2008 flagship project Diversidad. It will feature seminars on topics such as language barriers in Europe and the uniting role of music.

Cameroon is a linguistic paradise comprising 247 indigenous languages, Pidgin English and two official languages (English and French). This figure, advanced by Breton and Fohtung’s (1991) study, is re-echoed by Boum Ndongo-Semengue and Sadembouo (1999).

Multiple Choice Identity is a European education project which aims to make it possible for young people to develop their own identity in Europe and to encourage this.

This report summarises the findings of a qualitative study of Muslim women’s experiences of studying in Higher Education Institutions (HEI) across the UK.

This paper examines the politics of knowledge production as it relates to Muslim women in western literary traditions and contemporary feminist writing, with a view to understanding the political, ideological, and economic mediations that have historically framed these representations. The meta-narrative of the Muslim woman has shifted from the bold queens of medieval literature to colonial images of the seraglio’s veiled, secluded, and oppressed women. Contemporary feminist writing and popular culture have reproduced the colonial motifs of Muslim women, and these have regained currency in the aftermath of 9/11.

This paper heuristically and generically describes community as any kind of human collectivity regardless of size, developmental stage or vitality. The main thesis introduced here is that the future of a human community could be guaranteed only by maintaining a balance between particular volitions and collective responsibility. Such balance is established through normative dialogue and discourse based on constructive communication. The Israeli society, as a one rifted by ideological and moral conflicts, must develop a culture of dialogue in order to survive.

Online/More Colour in the Media is a network of minority organisations and multicultural NGO’s, local and national broadcast media, training institutes and media education organisations, and aims to improve the representation of ethnic minorities in the media.