Interculturalism and multiculturalism: similarities and differences

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This book examines the relationship between two policy approaches for managing the cultural diversity of contemporary societies: interculturalism and multiculturalism.

The relationship between these two approaches has been a matter of intense debate in recent years. Some commentators argue that they represent two very different approaches, while others argue that interculturalism merely re-emphasises some of the core elements of present day multiculturalism. The debate arises, in part, because multiculturalism can take a variety of different forms, which makes it difficult to identify its key features in order to compare it with interculturalism. The debate has gained added momentum from the backlash against multiculturalism in recent years, and from the Council of Europe’s prominent championing of interculturalism as an alternative approach.

This book aims to clarify the concepts of interculturalism and multiculturalism, and to bring the various arguments together in a way that will assist politicians, policy makers, practitioners and interested lay people to understand the concerns that are driving the different orientations. The book is also intended to facilitate a comparison of the policy implications of interculturalism and multiculturalism. To this end, each chapter concludes with a concise statement of the implications for policy that follow from the viewpoint that has been expressed.

Sujets

• Europe
• Démocratie
• Société
• Multiculturalisme
• Interculturalism
• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: Conseil de l'Europe
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 24
• EAN13: 9789287178138
• Langue: English

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Interculturalism and multiculturalism: similarities and differences
Edited by Martyn Barrett
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
I would like to express my gratitude to the following members of the Council of Europe Secretariat: Ólöf Ólafsdóttir, Director of Democratic Citizenship and Participation, for her enthusiastic support for the preparation of this book, Sjur Bergan, Head of the Education Department, for his extremely useful guidance concerning the contents of the book, and Christopher Reynolds, Language Policy Unit, for his invaluable and highly professional support in the production of the book.
Martyn Barrett
Notes on the contributors
Martyn Barrett
Martyn Barrett is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom. He obtained his degrees from the Universities of Cambridge and Sussex. He is a developmental and social psychologist but has a strong commitment to multidisciplinary research, and is currently working with political scientists, sociologists, educationalists and policy analysts. He works on the development of intercultural competence; children’s national and ethnic enculturation; the identifications and cultural practices of ethnic minority, mixed-heritage and ethnic majority individuals; the development of prejudice, stereotyping and intergroup attitudes; and the development of political cognition, civic attitudes and active citizenship. Recent books include Children’s knowledge, beliefs and feelings about nations and national groups (Psychology Press 2007), Advancing multiculturalism, post 7/7 (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2008), Nationalism, ethnicity, citizenship (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011) and Political and civic engagement (Routledge, forthcoming). Over the years, he has received numerous research grants from the Economic and Social Research Council, the European Commission, the Nuffield Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, and various other bodies. From 2009 to 2012, he led an FP7 project funded by the European Commission entitled Processes Influencing Democratic Ownership and Participation (PIDOP). He also works as an expert for the Council of Europe on the development of intercultural competence, and helped to develop the Autobiography of intercultural encounters (Council of Europe 2009), and the Autobiography of intercultural encounters through visual media (Council of Europe 2013). He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Léonce Bekemans
Léonce Bekemans (BA in Philosophy, MA in International Studies, and PhD in International Economics) has an international profile and interdisciplinary academic background with broad and long-lasting research and multilingual teaching experience in European studies. Currently he holds the Jean Monnet Chair ad personam in Globalisation, Europeanisation, Human Development at the University of Padua, Italy; he is the academic co-ordinator of its Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for Intercultural Dialogue, Human Rights and Multi-level Governance and closely collaborates with its Interdepartmental Centre on Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples. He is a visiting professor at various European universities, an appreciated speaker at international conferences, and regularly collaborates with the Council of Europe, the EU and its Jean Monnet Programme, the Committee of the Regions and the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures in relation to European education, intercultural dialogue, citizenship and multilevel governance issues. He is also president of Ryckevelde, an international organisation for active citizenship (Bruges) and secretary general of ECSA-World. His main research interests relate to the broad area of value-oriented integration studies with a focus on the relations between economy, polity, culture and society from a global, European and local perspective. He has written many articles and edited books on these topics, including Intercultural dialogue and multi-level governance: a human rights based approach (Peter Lang 2012) and A value-driven European future (Peter Lang 2012).
Gérard Bouchard
Trained in sociology and history, Gérard Bouchard is Professor at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada. He is a member of various scientific organisations, including the Royal Society of Canada and the Académie des lettres du Québec. Starting in 1971, he founded and directed a team that has developed a huge interdisciplinary population register which now covers the whole Province of Québec. In parallel, he has spent 25 years conducting empirical and interdisciplinary research in various fields of social and historical sciences. Over the last 15 years, he has concentrated his work on cultural issues. He is now doing comparative research on the management of ethno-cultural diversity, national myths and collective imaginaries within a Canada Research Chair. He has authored, co-authored, edited or co-edited 37 books, and has published 280 papers in scientific journals. With the political philosopher Charles Taylor, he co-chaired in 2007-08 a governmental commission of inquiry on intercultural relations in Québec (its report was published in May 2008: Building the future. A time for reconciliation ). In 2008-09, he was visiting professor of sociology at Harvard and holder of a Canada-US research chair. He has been awarded a number of prestigious distinctions, including the French Légion d’honneur and several honoris causa doctorates. He has also published three novels.
Ulrich Bunjes
Ulrich Bunjes is a Special Policy Adviser to the Director General of Democracy of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, France). He has a degree in sociology and Far Eastern studies from the University of Hamburg (Germany). Besides his long-standing experience in senior executive functions in national, European and global NGOs, since 1978 he has worked intermittently in various functions for the Council of Europe, including as a director of the first All Different – All Equal anti-racism youth campaign (1994-96) and as a member of the team preparing the White Paper on intercultural dialogue – "Living together as equals in dignity" (launched in 2008). Between 2008 and August 2012, he headed the Youth Department of the Council of Europe. Ulrich Bunjes has published widely on youth policy and intercultural dialogue issues, most recently on "A future perspective on intercultural and interreligious dialogue: an institutional and policy-oriented view", in Bekemans, L. (ed.), A value-driven European future (Peter Lang 2012).
Michael Byram
Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus in the School of Education at the University of Durham, England, Guest Professor at the University of Luxembourg and Visiting Professor in universities in China and the UK. After reading modern and medieval languages at King’s College Cambridge, he wrote a PhD on Danish literature and then taught French and German at secondary school level and in adult education in an English comprehensive community school. After being appointed to a post in teacher education at the University of Durham in 1980, he carried out research into the education of linguistic minorities, and foreign language education, including several funded projects from the ESRC, Leverhulme Foundation and others. He was mainly involved in the initial training of language teachers for the first 20 years but then most of his teaching was at doctoral and master’s level, dealing with topics like intercultural studies in education, bilingual education and policy studies in education. In the 2000s, he was Adviser to the Language Policy Division of the Council of Europe. He is now working on language policy, the politics of language teaching, and "internationalism" in education. He has published several books including Teaching and assessing intercultural communicative competence (Multilingual Matters 1997), Intercultural experience and education (edited with G. Alred and M. Fleming) (Multilingual Matters 2003), and From foreign language education to education for intercultural citizenship (Multilingual Matters 2008). He is joint editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of language teaching and learning (Routledge 2013) and joint series editor of Languages for intercultural communication and education (Multilingual Matters).
Ted Cantle
Ted Cantle is Professor at the Institute of Community Cohesion (