Fourteenth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society

Abstract

Global migration, increasingly multiethnic, multicultural, and religiously diverse communities, visible economic and educational inequities between immigrant, second-generation, citizens, and non-citizens groups have forced educators and policy makers to grapple with questions about how to re-design and organize social, political, and educational institutions towards more equitable and integrated societies. In this colloquium, scholar-practitioners from across the globe engage with the theory and practice of intercultural education to describe, interrogate, critique, and put forth recommendations for future iterations of policy and practice. They extend the dialogue opened in the edited collection, Intercultural Education: Critical Perspectives, Pedagogical Challenges, and Promising Practices, (Nova Sciences Publishers, forthcoming) to critically interrogate the two educational frameworks of interculturalism and multiculturalism. The theoretical, conceptual and case study papers not only historicize, contextualize, and problematize the conceptual educational frameworks, but challenges us think about possibilities, connections, and limitations in order to provide a roadmap of real-life possibilities for change.