Social Justice Education in European Multi-ethnic Schools

Cinzia Pica-Smith is an Associate Professor in both the Department of Human Services and Rehabilitation Studies and the Education Department at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts in the United States.Rina Manuela Contini is an expert in Welfare Theories and Social Intervention in the Department of Management & Business Administration at the University of Chieti-Pescara in Italy and is certified at the Associate Professor level in sociology of communication and cultural processes.Carmen N. Veloria is an Associate Professor in both the Department of Education and Department of Sociology at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States.

"Immigration is the issue of our times. It is polarizing politics in Europe and North America and leaving those directly affected by the experience targeted, discriminated against, and frequently, marginalized. This important new book provides scholarly perspectives on the various factors influencing immigration and the adaptation of immigrants to the lands where they settle. Well researched and far-reaching in its scope and relevance, this book will be an invaluable resource to those who seek to understand a social phenomenon that will define our lives for many years to come." Pedro A. Noguera, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Education, Faculty Director, Center for the Transformation of Schools, University of California Los Angeles Graduate School of Education & Information Studies."As multiculturalism has been declared dead across Europe, interculturalism has been embraced with enthusiasm by policy-makers, academics, and educators. This valuable study exposes the vacuity of the new speak, which ignores widening power disparities and inequality in our brave new neoliberal world."Christian Joppke, Professor of Sociology, Executive Director, Institute of Sociology, University of Berne, Switzerland."Full of important, often critical, framing. Pica-Smith, Contini, and Veloria nudge us toward a deeper, more sophisticated, more transformative view of intercultural education . . . They wrap a critical view around frameworks and practices that tend to be depoliticized in schools prior to implementation, urging us toward integrity despite all the possible detours."Paul C. Gorski, PhD, Founder and Director of the Equity Literacy Institute."An important part of intellectual work, especially in social sciences, consists in deconstructing public discourse and official policies, showing their shortcomings or implicit biases. This is precisely what I find most relevant in this book. It has the value of critically analysing the meaning and the implications of intercultural education, setting it in relation to educational and social justice. It is the right book at the right moment, and it deserves wide circulation among a public of educational experts, scholars and practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic."Maurizio Ambrosini, Professor of Sociology of Migration, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy.

• PART 1ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOREWORD: BY PAUL GORSKY INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION: ORIGINS, CURRENT THINKING, PRACTICE AND CRITIQUESINTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: SOCIAL THEORIES OF MIGRATION, POLITICAL REALITIES, AND THE RISE OF INTERCULTURALISM CHAPTER 2: INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION: THEORETICAL MODEL AND STRATEGIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION CHAPTER 3: TALKING BACK: CRITICAL THEORY AND CRITICAL PEDAGOGY CHAPTER 4: INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION IN ITALIAN SCHOOLS: A CASE STUDY PART 2THEORY IN PRACTICE: "US AND THEM", INTERGROUP FRIENDSHIPS, INTERGROUP DIALOGUE, AND THE PROMISE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATIONCHAPTER 5: "US AND THEM," THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACE, INTERSECTIONALITY AND THE IMPORTANCE OF DISCUSSING RACE CHAPTER 6: INTERGROUP RELATIONSHIPS IN SCHOOL, INTERGROUP CONTACT, & PREJUDICE REDUCTION: IS IT ENOUGH? CHAPTER 7: SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION AND ANTI-COLONIAL EDUCATIONAL FRAMEWORKS AND PEDAGOGYFINAL THOUGHTS AFTERWORD: BY MAURIZIO AMBROSINI