Diversity Intercultural Encounters and Education

<p>This book concerns the challenges and tensions rising from mass migration flows unbalanced north-south and east-west relations and the increasing multicultural nature of society. The scope of the book’s theme is global addressing diversity and identity intercultural encounters and conflict and the interrogations of a new socio-political order or paradigm. Thus it highlights some of the most poignant and challenging outcomes of cultural diversity faced more or less palpably by everyone everywhere in today’s societies. </p><p>The book’s theme of multi- and pluriculturality is of particular current interest in the academic socio-political economic and entrepreneurial spheres. It covers Western and non-Western perspectives representing a valuable resource in terms of international dialogue and experimentation. The chapters are complimentary completing a rigorous theoretical framework offering detailed presentation and analysis of the phenomenon of diversity as encountered in society and the educational setting and at large viewed in a multidisciplinary multiperspective fashion. Among the theories and concepts represented are those intrinsic to sociology psychology political science economics history literature pedagogy communication and linguistics. </p>