Includes bibliographical references and index.

A global invitation: toward the expansion of dialogue, reflection, and creative engagement on intercultural and multicultural education / Carl A. Grant and Stefan Brueck -- Intercultural and multicultural education: epistemological and semantic aspects / Agostino Portera -- The intercultural perspective and its development through cooperation with the Council of Europe / Micheline Rey-von Allmen -- Comments on intercultural education in German guidelines and curricula / Cristina Allemann-Ghionda -- Intercultural education in post-communist countries / Krystyna M. Bleszynska -- Cross-cultural education in Greece: history and prospects / Soula Mitakidou -- Intercultural education: the theory deficit and the world crisis / David Coulby -- Intercultural education in Japan: foreign children and their education / Maki Shibuya -- Becoming American: intercultural education and European immigrants / Cherry A. McGee Banks -- Philosophical and historical foundations of intercultural education in Mexico / Fernanda Pineda and Hilary Landorf -- The development of multicultural education in Taiwan: overview and reflection / Meihui Liu and Tzu-Bin Lin -- Ethnicity and the state of multiculturalism in the Malaysian education system / Hazri Jamil and Hairul Nizam Ismail -- Multicultural education in a color-blind society / Carl E. James -- Multiculturalism in South Africa: in the shadow of the rainbow / Dennis Francis and Crispin Hemson -- Cultural transformation of educational discourse in China: perspectives of multiculturalism/interculturalism / Zongjie Wu and Chunyan Han -- The politics of inclusion and the search for the "other": the international education policies and the politics of "difference" in Pakistan / Ayesha Khurshid -- Multiculturalism in the Nordic countries / Johanna Lasonen -- Multicultural and intercultural education in Spain / Teresa Aguado and Beatriz Malik -- Citizenship and intercultural education in an international and comparative context / Jagdish S. Gundara -- Moving from multicultural to intercultural education in Australian higher education / Valerie A. Clifford -- Interculturalism, multiculturalism, and diversity as social and educational policies in Chile, 1990-2008 / Carmen Montecinos and Guillermo Williamson.