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Increasing The Multicultural Understanding Of Student Teachers In Europe

by Pirkko Pitkänen, Gajendra K. Verma and Devorah Kalekin-Fishman

244 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #06-1101; ISBN 1-4120-9347-3; US$19.04, C$21.90, EUR15.64, £10.95

This book examines the responses of educational systems, especially the training of teachers, to the increase in ethnic and cultural diversity in four European countries and in Israel.

The aim of this book is to enhance the educators’ and policy-makers’ understanding about how best to support the settling of immigrants and ethnic minorities through education and thus help minority group members to achieve equality of opportunity and prepare them for life in an increasingly economically competitive Europe.

Pirkko Pitkanen, Ph.D., is Professor of Educational Policy and Multicultural Education at the University of Tampere, Finland. She was the main coordinator in the ECT project.. Professor Pitkanen has wide experience as a researcher and as a manager of national and multi-national research groups, especially focussing on intercultural work in schools and workplaces.

Gajendra K. Verma, Ph.D., is Emerius Professor of Education at the University of Manchester. He was local coordinator for the ECT project. He has researched widely and written extensively on a range of fields including educational evaluation and assessment, cultural diversity and the curriculum, and educational research and the teacher, issues of equality and social justice.

Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, Dr. Rer. Soc., is a senior instructor (tenured) in the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa. Dr. Kalekin-Fishman was the local coordinator of the ECT project. She has published widely on the unwritten curriculum in Israeli schools, ideology and practice in education, construals and constructions of social reality (from the point of view of personal construct psychology) theories of alienation and qualitative research with an emphasis on biographical research in sociology.

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