Cultural Diversity in the Classroom

The so-called nation states have created ethnical minorities. Also due to migration, cultural diversity is the reality. The multicultural society is strongly reproduced in the schools all over Europe. Increasingly, cultural diversity in the classroom is being recognized as a potential which should not be neglected. The educational system has, above all, to provide all children with equal opportunities. Experts in Finland, the UK, Hungary, Spain, Greece, Cyprus and other European states, mostly responsible for teacher education, have contributed to this volume critical, but con-structive remarks on the classroom reality in their countries.