This conceptually rich and empirically grounded book draws upon expertise from a panel of
emerging and established international scholars to explore the institutionalization and effect
of multicultural education on a global scale. Previous studies of multicultural education have
largely ignored the significance of understanding the combination of multiple sociopolitical
influences on multicultural education in both policy and practice. Filling this void this book
sheds light on the two main reasons for taking a glocal perspective on multicultural education.
First children should be provided with meaningful learning opportunities to acquire the
knowledge skills and attitudes necessary to live in a culturally and ethno-linguistically
diverse society where the distinction between the local and the global is becoming blurred.
Second understanding both the global grammar and the local semantics of multicultural
education helps researchers and policy-makers grasp the whole picture of multicultural
education as an evolving social construct and phenomenon. This new book provokes a new round of
discussion and research to expand and enrich our inquiry into cultural diversity and
educational inclusion.