Managing Cultural and Linguistic Plurality in West‐European Education. Obstacles, Patterns and Innovations

Abstract

Summary The various models derived from the idea of intercultural education are only rarely im‐plemented in the education systems of Western Europe, which are historically organised according to a monolingual and monocultural approach. The author questions the background of this limited willingness of national educational systems to face the challenge of linguistic and cultural plurality, and delineates research and patterns which emerge from research findings. After discussing the pedagogical consequences of the use of the concept of ‘cultural plurality’, she finally sketches some strategies to manage linguistic and cultural plurality implemented in selected pedagogical innovations in four countries. I diversi modelli sviluppati apartire dall'idea di educazione interculturale sono solo raramente attuati nei sistemi educativi dell'Europa occidentale, storicamente orga‐nizzati attomo ad un approccio monolingue e monoculturale. L'autrice si interroga sull'origine di tale limitata disponibilit’ ad affrontare...