This study investigates first-year undergraduates when starting their studies in a highly internationalised public university settled in a multicultural and multilingual European city. It focuses on to what extent individual differences as regards plurilingualism and previous intercultural experience are related to a higher or lower degree of…

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) indicates that education for global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity should be embedded at all levels of curricula. In this paper, we share findings from an analysis of curriculum documents in Victoria, Australia and Québec, Canada that identified learning related to this…

Extensive research has been done to identify the conceptual components of intercultural competence (IC), which resulted in a plethora of models and a wide array of differently defined constructs that are in use today to develop and assess IC. However, the majority of IC research comes from relatively similar contexts that are westernised, high on…

In recent years, a large amount of Chinese international students, from middle or upper-middle class families, began their international education in Canadian secondary schools, where critical thinking is the main educational goal and often determines students' achievements. Guided by reflexivity in multilingual and intercultural education, this…

Examines the Swann and Rampton Reports' recommendations that teacher education institutions place greater emphasis on multicultural education in teacher training. Those programs which have attempted to implement these recommendations have failed to translate the improved level of awareness into a positive curricular change. (Author/CB)

Although multicultural education has long been touted as an important educational goal in schools in England and Wales, very little has actually changed. Some individuals purporting to support anti-racist education and some governmental policies have actually undermined the little progress made toward preparing teachers and students for a…

Aims at providing a basis for reviewing cultural transmission in learning English as a second language. What is contended here is that language learning is culture learning, and cultural competence consists of the ability to draw from any culture, native or other, with a sense of discernment and purpose. (SED)

Discusses negative experiences resulting from the use of migrant literature (literature by and about immigrants) in German educational settings. Problems, such as the classifying of immigrant children as "outsiders" and the native group's resentment at the accusatory nature of some literature, can be lessened by proper, culturally…

Argues that language varieties represent an important aspect of the development of bilingualism. Analysis of migrant children's acquisition of German and their productive, reactive, and receptive competence demonstrates that children who fail in the understanding and use of language varieties often lack the necessary sociocultural knowledge.…

A survey revealed that early childhood teacher training students and postgraduates had similar responses to questions on perspectives, curriculum, social dimensions, and academic success. (EKN)

A project to introduce the music of different cultures into primary and secondary classrooms in London is reported. The six cultures are Indian music and dance, Latin American rock and steel pans, jazz, Indian drums, and Chinese music and movement. The project model is related to multicultural education in general. (Author/LB)

After an examination of five major questions about incorporating non-Western and ethnic music into music education programs, a comparison of the British and Austrian periodical literature is discussed. The resulting conclusions place the music and multicultural education issues in a broader context. (27 references) (Author/LB)