Where Do You Stand?: Intercultural Learning and Political Education in Contemporary Europe

Front Matter....Pages 1-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
On the Political Didactics of Intercultural Learning – A Planning Concept for International Youth Work....Pages 27-29
Political Education: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?....Pages 31-34
Acculturation of Young Foreigners in the Federal Republic of Germany: Problems and Concepts....Pages 35-37
‘25 Years Later’ or On the Sustainability of a Social Scientific Approach to Counselling....Pages 39-42
Cultural Identity and Intercultural Learning – On the Particular Problem of Ethnocentrism....Pages 43-45
Back to the Future: A Few Words of Encouragement for Petra Sternecker’s ‘Cultural Identity and Intercultural Learning’....Pages 47-49
Identity – Communication – Interaction....Pages 51-53
Intercultural Dialogue Today?....Pages 55-59
European Civil Society: An Open Societal Model for Young People in Europe?....Pages 61-63
Eurospeak – Rhetoric, Politics and Young People in Europe....Pages 65-68
Citizenship and Multiculturalism: Rethinking Equality, Rights and Diversity in Contemporary Europe....Pages 69-73
Rethinking Equality Again: Regression Masked as ‘Progress’....Pages 75-78
Valorising Civic Engagement in Europe: ‘Political Education’ in a Balancing Act Between Aspirations and Realities....Pages 79-84
‘Political Education’ Between Aspirations and Realities: Another Decade Bites the Dust....Pages 85-88
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Intercultural Education: Learning Empathy to Transgress....Pages 91-107
Intercultural Education from a Global Perspective: Caught Between Universalism and Contextualisation....Pages 109-134
A School of Democracy? Civil Society and Youth Participation in the Multicultural Europe....Pages 135-160
After the ‘Failed Experiment’: Intercultural Learning in a Multicultural Crisis....Pages 161-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
A New Intercultural Learning Concept for the European Youth Sector?....Pages 183-239
Back Matter....Pages 241-276