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Addresses questions of how to deal with internal issues of social inequality and cultural diversity and, at the same time, how to build a shared civility among their different national, ethnic, religious and social groups.

Cultural Diversity & Empowerment of Minorities

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Preface







Introduction: Education, Multiculturalism, and Empowerment of Minorities - An Overview



Majid Al-Haj and Rosemarie Mielke







PART I: GENERAL OVERVIEW







Chapter 1. Stories of Struggle: Transnational Advocacy and Democracy Education



Gordon Mitchell







Chapter 2. What's Going on between Members of Majorities and Minorities? Contributions from Social Psychology



Rosemarie Mielke







Chapter 3. Talking at Cross-purposes: Misunderstanding in Intercultural Communication



Juliane House







PART II: THE ISRAELI CASE







Chapter 4. A Curriculum between Conflict and Peace: The Teaching of History in Jewish and Arab Schools in Israel



Majid Al-Haj







Chapter 5. The Evolving Arab Reception of the Holocaust and Palestinian Textbooks: A Contribution to Democracy and Peace Education?



Schirin Fathi







Chapter 6. Police-minority Relations in a Multicultural Society: The Israeli Case



Badi Hasisi







Chapter 7. On the Central Role of "Threat Perception" in Mediating the Influence of Socioeconomic Factors on Xenophobic Attitudes



Eran Halperin, Daphna Canetti-Nisim, and Ami Pedahzur







Chapter 8. A Multimedia Lexicon as a Tool for Increasing Societal Tolerance



Oz Almog and Tami Almog



Chapter 9. When Gender Differences Surpass Cultural Differences in Personal Satisfaction with Body Shape in Israeli College Students



Marilyn P. Safir, Shimrit Flaisher-Kellner, and Amir Rosenmann







Chapter 10. Postcolonial Feminism, the Politics of Identification, and the Liberal Bargain



Amalia Sa'ar







PART III: THE GERMAN CASE







Chapter 11. Acculturation Attitudes and Bilingual Classrooms in Germany. The Portuguese-German Example



Joana Duarte







Chapter 12. "Not Always Proud to be American": The Reconstruction of National Identity by Americans Residing in Germany



Inke Du Bois







Chapter 13. Oral Mistake Corrections in Second-language Classrooms



Olga Visbal







Chapter 14. Intercultural Competence in Management Consultancies in Germany: Does It Exist?



Melissa Lamson







Notes on Contributors



Index of Names



Index of Subjects