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Human Rights and Substantive Equality in the Adjudication of Ethnic Practices
2016
With the development of human rights and anti-discrimination law, courts have increasingly been called upon to protect ethnicity related practices from general criminal and civil sanctions. These ‘claims of culture’ have so far been addressed with remarkable inconsistency, leading to popular fears of unlimited normative pluralism and targeted legislative measures. Compounding such controversies, philosophical approaches to multiculturalism have mostly been concerned with policy and offered vague or distorted portrayals of judicial challenges. This article seeks to fill the gap by exploring how the legal standard of substantive equality might structure the courts’ approach to a range of case…
The ‘Why, What and How’ of Inclusion from the Practitioner's Point of View: Inclusion of Immigrant Children in the Norwegian Educational System
2011
The aim of the article is to explore teachers' perceptions of the concept of multicultural inclusion. The study adopts a qualitative approach where 14 individual semi-structured interviews have been used to assess and analyse teachers' reflections when considering the ‘why, what and how’ questions surrounding inclusion. The overall findings indicate that teachers view multicultural inclusion as a desirable and positive process which should be practised in contemporary schools. However, the findings also indicate that teachers use rather common and imprecise terms and generally hold that this process is straightforward and unproblematic in terms of its definition. This is further supported …
Eurocity London: a qualitative comparison of graduate migration from Germany, Italy and Latvia
2016
This paper compares the motivations and characteristics of the recent migration to London of young-adult graduates from Germany, Italy and Latvia. Conceptually the paper links three domains: the theory of core–periphery structures within Europe; the notion of London as both a global city and a ‘Eurocity’; and the trope of ‘crisis’. The dataset analysed consists of 95 in-depth biographical interviews and the paper’s main objective is to tease out the narrative similarities and differences between the three groups interviewed. Each of the three nationalities represents a different geo-economic positioning within Europe. German graduates move from one economically prosperous country to another…
Cross-Cultural Comparison of Student Perceptions and Performance in a Multicultural, Interdisciplinary and Bilingual Online Educational Project
2011
Exchange agreements between universities and new technologies are influencing the education-learning process during the past few years. E-learning has become an educational tool with several applications and the main aim of facilitating student learning process and adapting it to the social and professional reality. In this study, the authors present an online project based on a multicultural, interdisciplinary, and bilingual collaboration developed between two European universities: the University of Valencia (Spain) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom) through the free access academic platform, Moodle. Additionally, the chapter examines the significant…
Immigrant Student Achievement and Education Policy in Finland
2018
Finnish society has faced many changes during the past decade. One major change has been the increasing number of students speaking languages other than the national ones. This chapter provides an overview of the immigrant student population in Finland, including its change during the last decades. This chapter also takes a closer look at results of national and international assessments of students with an immigrant background, particularly the PISA 2012 results in which this student group was oversampled in Finland. This oversampling made the data considerably more representative of students having an immigrant background than in any other rounds, and also allowed more reliable statistica…
La educación literaria a través del álbum ilustrado: el desarrollo de la interculturalidad en la clase de inglés como lengua extranjera
2018
En un mundo globalizado e internacional como el actual, tanto la interculturalidad como el multiculturalismo se muestran como nociones universales en el desarrollo integral del ser humano desde su infancia. Esto es debido a que aspectos como la solidaridad, la justicia social, el compañerismo, la empatía y la proximidad al otro forman parte y deben ser aprendidos en las aulas del siglo XXI. En este sentido, la heterogeneidad y la diversidad constituyen los elementos esenciales de la propuesta educativa que presentamos en esta tesis doctoral. Así, hemos considerado que la literatura; concretamente, el álbum ilustrado -artefacto cultural dotado de lenguaje narrativo y visual- es, sin lugar a …
What culture must be recognised in the politics of multiculturalism?
2009
Liberalism offers a very broad range of responses and theoretical constructions when it comes to addressing the issue of the cultural diversity of societies and their cultural management. Compare the responses of Charles Taylor, Clifford Geertz and Michael lgnatieff, to name three important thinkers. They all claim to defend liberalism, but their viewpoints are very different. I have chosen these three because they come from three different disciplinary fields: philosophy, empirical anthropology and political theory.My purpose is to show that their differences do not derive only from their different political sensibilities, from the position they adopt within the broad spectrum of liberalis…
Interculturalidad, multiculturalidad o localismo: un modelo para la LIJ catalana
2010
La literatura infantil y juvenil catalana muestra determinadas peculiaridades por sus circunstancias sociales que la hacen menos sensible a determinados cambios como pueda ser la globalización o la introducción de la interculturalidad. En este artículo llegamos a la conclusión de que más que de interculturalidad, en nuestra literatura se debería hablar más de localismo ya que parece que, ante la globalización, los autores y autoras se decidieran más por la búsqueda de las esencias.
Negotiation of Identities and Negotiation of Values in Multicultural Societies
2014
This chapter addresses the notions of identity negotiation and value negotiation from a philosophical perspective. The relationship between personal or collective identity and core values is here analyzed. Identity is described as constituted by a set of core values. Yet, while identity is—by definition—particular, core values intend to be universal although they are practiced in particular cultural contexts and are susceptible of different interpretations and applications. The author claims that whether negotiation is meant in contractual terms, it is an adequate tool only to manage interests but not identitarian values. However, if negotiation is meant as a process of gradual adaptation t…
The assessment of multicultural strength: Design and validation of an Openness to the Other Affective Domain Inventory
2014
The classification of character strengths and virtues by Peterson and Seligman (2004) includes 24 strengths and 6 virtues. Although the development of this classification was inspired by diverse cultural traditions, no one strength or virtue centrally focused on cultural aspects. Fowers and Davidov (2006) have proposed a new multicultural strength or virtue termed as openness to the other. We developed the Openness to the Other Affective Domain Inventory (OADI), a new 6-item measurement instrument to assess affective attraction to the other, that is, fascination with or attraction to culturally diverse others, and affective aversion to the other, that is, distrust of or disgust with cultura…