Social Justice Education in European Multi-ethnic Schools

<p><strong>Winner of the American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Book Award 2019</strong></p><p>Europe is a multi-ethnic society experiencing a rise of anti-immigration racist xenophobic discourses and right-wing political rhetoric and movements proposing legislation to further solidify structural inequality and institutionalized systems of oppression that fuel educational inequities. <i>Social Justice Education in European Multi-ethnic Schools</i> brings together researchers in the fields of sociology and education to examine debates in multicultural education. Drawing on critical theory the book takes an in-depth look at how these challenges are being addressed (or not addressed) in educational contexts and in the proposed framework of intercultural education adopted as a conceptual and educational framework by the European Union over the last two decades.</p><p>The book begins with an analysis of the sociological models and theories of migration and their connection to multiculturalism and interculturalism. It engages in the current debate between multiculturalism and interculturalism bringing to light the political rhetoric that fueled narratives about the failures of multiculturalism which ushered in the intercultural framework. It puts forth a critical analysis of interculturalism linking it to neoliberalism and policies of civic integration and the concept of govermentality. Advocating for a transformative framework informed in social justice education that aims to promote more equity in schools it critically analyzes and discusses intercultural education the pedagogical extension of interculturalism as per the European documents highlighting its goals pedagogies tensions and challenges. </p><p>Social Justice Education in European Multi-ethnic Schools will be of great interest to academics researchers and scholars in the fields of intercultural multicultural and transformative education.</p>