World Yearbook of Education 1997: Intercultural Education

This title is not a yearbook in the conventional sense of providing directory‐type information or a review of the events of the year. Rather, it consists each year of a collection of essays that broadly relate to one particular theme. In previous years the themes chosen have included, amongst others, urban education, special needs education and the evaluation of higher education systems. The theme chosen for this volume results from the growing concern in intercultural education and is a fascinating and relevant survey. It is a fact that the majority of modern states are multicultural whether this be in the...