Book Review: Vally Lytra (Eds.), (2014). When Greeks and Turks Meet:Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Relationship Since 1923.

Book Review: Vally Lytra (Eds.), (2014). When Greeks and Turks Meet:Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Relationship Since 1923

Pre-service teachers’ multicultural competence: Is it just about course attendance?

Pre-service teachers’ multicultural competence: Is it just about course attendance

“Our nation’s future”: Youth visions of a post-Brexit Britain

In 2016, in the so-called ‘Brexit’ referendum, the British electorate voted to leave the European Union (EU). In an age of connectivity, mobility and increasing diversity, the Brexit vote seems to have put the clock back, heralding the nation as a bastion against change. Given the fact that 75% of those aged 18–24 voted to remain in the EU, it is clear that young people hold different views compared to those of their parents and grand-parents. The aim of this chapter is to explore these views, mapping the different ways the nation is made meaningful by them. Focusing on a socially heterogeneous cohort of young people (aged 14–19) living in Loughborough, a market town in the East Midlands, which also voted to leave the EU, the paper analyses artworks and accompanying texts produced in schools and youth associations on the theme: ‘Our nations’ future’. Tracing the hopes for and concerns about a post-Brexit Britain, the chapter brings to the fore young people’s agency in uncertain and complex times, scrutinising how the nation becomes a vehicle to establish entitlement and belonging

Examining the factors influencing pre-service teachers' multicultural competence in Greece: Towards the construction of an explanatory model

This paper aims at highlighting the need for the examination of factors influencing pre-service teachers’ multicultural competence in non-traditional multicultural environments, using Greece as an indicative example. After providing some background characteristics concerning the presence of diversity in the Greek wider societal and educational context, the paper defines a way of operationalising multicultural competence based on Sue’s (2001) multidimensional model. Next, a literature review of factors that have been found to influence multicultural competence or its aspects is presented. Based on that literature review, the paper concludes suggesting the utilisation of a multifactorial model as a means of getting a more nuanced understanding of the factors influencing pre-service teacher’s multicultural competence

[Book Review] Brubaker, Rogers, Grounds for Difference.

[Book Review] Brubaker, Rogers, Grounds for Difference