ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses multicultural and intercultural education focusing on how intercultural education is both informed in—and intersects with—multicultural education and differs from it. It focuses on European guidelines for implementing intercultural education for all students as well as directives focused on immigrant students that pertain to the goals related to their immediate social and educational integration so that they may more fully participate in schooling. Intercultural education supports students to become competent “global citizens,” able to successfully live, coexist, and navigate an increasingly multilingual, multicultural, international social context by acquiring intercultural competencies. The exclusive focus on teaching and learning about culture to impact the individual and interpersonal spheres is the most significant difference between intercultural education and multicultural education. Pedagogical approaches that support intercultural education for intercultural competence are experiential and cooperative learning in which young people work collaboratively on project work to discover, analyze, compare, and implement.
