ABSTRACT
The perspective on multiethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s led to a response in educational policy-making and educational practice which can be characterized as 'preparation for assimilation'. The comparatively small number of fellow students from ethnic-minority groups should be considered the result of selection processes that are the product and evidence of the current inequality in ethnicity, class and gender. Intercultural education was considered a relevant instrument to realize the aim of 'acculturation' in a policy paper. It seems that students who finished their teacher training in the period 1984-90 were not exposed to a totally intercultural perspective on education. Information based on cross-cultural research or from people who have a great amount of cross-cultural experience can help to distinguish universal from specific cultural aspects. De Frankrijker presents an overview of intercultural education in a particular category of teacher-training colleges. Students in training colleges need to become aware that they will have to function as teachers in a multiethnic society.
