Refugees, Interculturalism and Education
Refugees, Interculturalism and Education focuses on the sensitive issue of forced migration and education from an intercultural perspective. The volume comprises diverse projects and classroom experiences in different countries, involving today’s ever-increasing population of human beings who, for different reasons, are compelled to abandon their homelands and seek better living conditions in strange places where they are not normally welcome. Such a reality poses great challenges to the nations and educational systems that receive these groups and brings intercultural education to the centre of the discussion. The contributors to this book call attention to the importance of providing these refugee populations with a humanistic, stimulating and transformative educational setting in order to let them know that their lives are important and that their histories matter.
The chapters in this book were originally published in Intercultural Education.
Marco Catarci is Associate Professor of Social and Intercultural Education in the Department of Education, Roma Tre University, Italy. He is head of the Master program in Reception and Inclusion of Asylum seekers and Refugees, at Roma Tre University. His major research interests include intercultural education, cultural mediation and the inclusion of refugees.
Miguel Prata Gomes is Coordinator Professor in School of Education Paula Frassinetti, Porto, Portugal. His expertise is in the fields of intercultural mediation and human rights and ethics. His present research interests include building "critical thinking" in intercultural education/mediation, citizenship and development and human rights. He is a Board Member of the International Association for Intercultural Education, London, UK and of AKTO – Human Rights and Democracy.
Sávio Siqueira is an Associate Professor of English and Applied Linguistics in the Department of Germanic Languages and the Graduate Program in Language and Culture at Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the same university. Among his research interests are English as a lingua franca, intercultural education, critical language teaching, globalisation studies and the sociolinguistics of English and critical pedagogy.